Tickets for Solange's February 28 show at the Bottom Lounge go on sale today (1/11) at noon CST.

Tickets for Deathfix's March 10 show at Schubas go on sale today at noon CST.

Tickets for Talk Normal's March 17 show at the Empty Bottle go on sale today at 10AM CST.

Tickets for Low's March 22 show at Metro go on sale today at noon CST.

Tickets for Tim Kasher's March 23 show at Schubas go on sale today at noon CST.

Best Coast will open for Green Day at the Allstate Arena on March 28. More tickets for this make-up date are on sale now.

Tickets for Chelsea Light Moving's March 29 show at the Empty Bottle go on sale today at 10AM CST.

Tickets for Zammuto's April 4 show at SPACE are on sale now.

Tickets for Telekinesis' May 15 show at Lincoln Hall go on sale today at noon CST.

DOWNLOAD: Chelsea Light Moving - "Empire of Time" (MP3)

Chelsea Light Moving at Sled Island in 2012 (more by Zach Pollack)

Thurston Moore's Chelsea Light Moving are set to welcome their debut, self-titled album on March 5 via Matador Records. The group will be supporting that album with a spring North American tour, which hits Chicago on March 29 for a performance at the Empty Bottle with CAVE. Ticketing information for that show is forthcoming, but check Ticketweb for updates.

You can grab an MP3 of the album track "Empire of Time" at the top of this post. All Chelsea Light Moving tour dates and LP information are below...

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As mentioned earlier today, the 2012 edition of Neon Marshmallow is set to take place at The Burlington from November 15-18. The festival lineup has arrived tonight, and includes Pelican/Chord member and solo artist Trevor de Brauw, Thurston Moore, Greg Fox's Guardian Alien, MV & EE, Running, Julian Lynch, and many more acts. Festival passes are on sale now, and come with MP3s from Windbreaker, Ryley Walker, and more. Of course, you could take your chances and pay per-day at the door but we don't recommend it (and there might not be room for walk-ups).

Scope the full festival schedule-by-day below...

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Nachtmystium @ Lovejoys in Austin TX (BV-SXSW 2012) (more by Greg Cristman)

Local psychedelic black metal outfit Nachtmystium are set to play a hometown show at Reggie's tonight (7/31) in celebration of the release of their new LP, Silencing Machine. Murmur, Krieg, Drug Honkey, and Surachai are also on the bill, and tickets are still available. Stream Silencing Machine in its entirety via SPIN and purchase the album in a variety of formats HERE.

In related news, Thurston Moore has joined the black metal "supergroup" Twilight, which features Nachtmystium's Blake Judd and Sanford Parker, The Atlas Moth's Stavros Giannopolous, Leviathan's Wrest (aka Jef Whitehead), Krieg's Imperial (aka Neill Jameson), and Isis/Old Man Gloom's Aaron Turner. There has been talk of Moore joining the band since 2010, though he was not revealed as an official member until yesterday. A new Twilight album is slated to hit stores this fall via Century Media.

A few new Nachtmystium song streams/videos are below...

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photos by Josh Darr

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The 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival took place this past weekend in Union Park.

A set of pictures from day one (Friday, 7/15) of the festival continue below..
Head to BrooklynVegan to check out even more pics.

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DOWNLOAD: Thurston Moore - "Circulation" (MP3)

Thurston Moore is prepping his forthcoming solo effort Demolished Thoughts, to be released on May 24th via Matador Records. The LP was produced by none other than Beck Hansen, and was recorded in both Los Angeles, CA and Northampton, MA.

Thurston offered:

"Circulation is about menstrual cycles, menstruation blood, and the year 2012 when the Goddess of Destruction, the Goddess of Creation and the Goddess of Nurturing all come together and rise as Isis to bring the Earth to a new Matriarchy. We'll of course be in bed, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes and playing scratchy jazz records on a turntable on the nightstand."

Aside from some recently announced dates with Kurt Vile & The Violators, he'll make an appearance on Friday of the 2011 Pitchfork Festival.

At the top of this post you can download the Demolished Thoughts track "Circulation."

Head below to view all of Thurston's 2011 tour dates.

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As previously announced, the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival will be taking place on Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17 at Chicago's Union Park! Three-day passes are sold out (gone within 24 hours!), That being said, single-day passes can still be picked up at the rate of $45 per day.

The Pitchfork Music Festival is stoked to round out its 2011 lineup with a slew of new acts. Friday welcomes Thurston Moore, Battles, tUnE-yArDs, Gatekeeper, and EMA. Saturday's lineup sees the most new performers, with DJ Shadow, Zola Jesus, Twin Shadow, Toro Y Moi, Cold Cave, Wild Nothing, Julianna Barwick, and OFF! Sunday's additions are Superchunk and Darkstar. And there we have it: The lineup for the always engaging Pitchfork Music Festival is complete.

Head below to view the final lineup by day...

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