Nine Inch Nails fan @ Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV)

The official Lollapalooza 2013 lineup has been announced, even though you already got a good peek at it when it leaked in full last week. The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Phoenix, The National, Baroness, and MANY more are slated to perform in Grant Park from August 2-4.

Three-day passes are long gone, but single-day tickets go on sale this Wednesday (4/3) at 10AM CST.

Check out the full Lollapalooza 2013 lineups-by-day below...

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Nine Inch Nails fan @ Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV)

The official Lollapalooza 2013 lineup has been announced, even though you already got a good peek at it when it leaked in full last week. The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Phoenix, The National, Baroness, and MANY more are slated to perform in Grant Park from August 2-4.

Three-day passes are long gone, but single-day tickets go on sale this Wednesday (4/3) at 10AM CST.

Check out the full Lollapalooza 2013 lineups-by-day below...

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by Ben Wilkes

Wild Nothing at a recent show in Austin (more by Tim Griffin)

It's the archetypal indie success story. A soft-spoken, fashionably dressed kid from small town, USA gets discovered for his musical talent and uproots to Brooklyn to bloom. This sort of discovery has been made possible by a revolution in technology and culture that has broadened our scope of what a rock star can be, to include the isolated songwriter making pop music out of a hole-in-the-wall apartment in an anonymous town. Sampling, programmed drums, the remarkable versatility of the synthesizer, and the Internet have enabled musicians across the globe to record well-produced tracks from the bedroom. Youth Lagoon, Washed Out, Bon Iver, King Krule, Toro Y Moi, and now Wild Nothing epitomize this quiet dream.

I had the chance to catch up with Jack Tatum, the latest incarnation of this story and the artist behind Wild Nothing, about the past few years and how his music fits into the current climate. The band's been on tour the past two months and will be for another two with label-mates DIIV. They play Chicago's Empty Bottle this Sunday.

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Coming from Blacksburg, Va - "sleepy town" might be a severe understatement - and suddenly getting picked up by Brooklyn's Captured Tracks, featured at Pitchfork Fest 2012, and managed by We Are Free (Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, Beach House, among others); what is that transition like?

Jack Tatum: Actually, for me, it's felt like a really slow, gradual process - though a little bit shocking at first, especially when I still lived in Blacksburg. I wrote the first album there while I was still in school and things didn't really start picking up until that first summer after I graduated [summer 2009]. So, at that point, I was already kind of on my way out of Blacksburg. It all happened one thing at a time; I guess the first was Captured Tracks picking up the record. I actually hadn't even started work on the album until they got in touch. They asked if I wanted to do a record and I said OK, of course. I can look back on that time and it does seems a little strange, but I guess it's all settled into some form of normalcy for me now.

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Wild Nothing are gearing up for the release of their new record, Nocturne, which is due to hit stores next month via Captured Tracks. The album's lead single "Shadow" is streaming at the bottom of this post.

The group are set to hit the road in August and will link up with DIIV by early September. They'll arrive in Chicago on September 16 for a show at the Empty Bottle. Tickets for that show are not on sale yet, but check Ticketweb for updates. UPDATE: Tickets go on sale this Friday (7/27) at 10AM CST.

All Wild Nothing dates and a stream of their new track "Shadow" are below...

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photos by Sarah Frankie Linder

"Frankie Rose: pretty boss stuff. The crowd wants more!" - bellwak

"Too small a space for that bill but I'm glad I got to see both those acts in this space." - Veronica M.

Frankie Rose @ Township on 4/30/2012

On Monday night (April 30), Frankie Rose brought her current tour with DIIV (formerly DIVE) through Chicago to play a packed show at Township. A full set of pictures from Monday night continue below...

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Dive @ Township last night (via)

Dive are currently on tour with Frankie Rose and the two bands hit Chicago last night, to play a very packed show at Township. Our photos are forthcoming.

Pitchfork reports that the project of Beach Fossils frontman Zachary Cole Smith have now changed their name to DIIV, being mindful of the early 90's Belgian industrial outfit. DIIV (formally Dive) have also shared a new single from their forthcoming LP, Oshin, due on June 26 via Captured Tracks. Take a listen to "Doused" below...

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