"Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents and Starr Hill presents, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, are proud to announce the lineup for the fifth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The world's only gourmet music festival will once again take place in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park August 10 - 12, 2012. Tickets will go on sale Thursday April 19 at 12 noon PDT via www.sfoutsidelands.com. A significant portion of every ticket sold will directly benefit San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department."

Pretty massive lineup for the San Francisco festival this year. Check it out below....

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DOWNLOAD: Buraka Som Sistema - "Hangover" (Stereotyp remix) (MP3)

Buraka Som Sistema at Terminal 5 in 2010 (more by Zachary Alex Stern)

Portuguese electro/tribal group Buraka Som Sistema released their most recent LP, Komba, on October 31 via Enchufada. The album features a number of collaborators, including Roses Gabor, who also sings on the SBTRKT album, and Stereotyp, whose remix of "Hangover" is being premiered in this post, and you can download it above. You can also stream the track "(We Stay) Up All Night," which features Roses Gabor and Blaya, below. The album's artwork and tracklist are below too.

Buraka Som Sistema is coming to North America in January for the Holy Ship! Cruise and will stick around for a few shows including one at NYC's Bowery Ballroom on January 11. Tickets for the NYC show are on sale now.

All dates, song stream, album art and tracklist below...

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photos by Tim Griffin

Arcade Fire / The Walkmen

The 10th annual Austin City Limits festival came to a close on Sunday with a headlining set by Arcade Fire (who also taped an edition of Austin City Limits the TV show one day earlier). It was a rough year for some attendees. I'm talking about smokers. Austin Statesman posted the following before the weekend:

We welcome all the people and music artists attending this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. It's a special year for the music festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The talent this year is incredible, with headliners Kanye West, Stevie Wonder and Arcade Fire, as well as local favorites such as Asleep at the Wheel.

Before we get this party started, we must advise attendees that the Austin Parks Department has banned smoking at all Austin parks, greenbelts, trails and golf courses. That includes Zilker Park, site of the festival.

We realize that a smoking ban might be an inconvenience for some. But it is necessary to keep everyone safe. So please have fun at the events, which run today through Sunday, but leave the cigarettes, cigars, pipes -- or whatever else one might be smoking -- behind. (The ban also prohibits wood or charcoal grilling in Zilker and other parks.)

Smoking was allowed at previous ACL festivals, but this year is different. This year, Central Texas is dealing with wildfires that have killed two people, destroyed about 1,500 homes and burned tens of thousands of acres in Bastrop County, Steiner Ranch, Pflugerville and other Central Texas communities. In Austin, city firefighters responded to 469 brush fires from January through July. Cigarettes caused about a fourth of those fires, officials said. [Austin Statesman]

I don't know how many people obeyed that, but it's safe to say that ACL was fire free. In fact, much to the delight of many, it actually rained a bit on Friday and Saturday. Pictures from Sunday continue, with Arcade Fire's setlist, below...

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The 10th Anniversary ACL Festival line-up is on the books. Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley and Cee Lo top the bill of the over 130 bands. Bright Eyes, Social Distortion, Empire of the Sun, Santigold, Pretty Lights, TV On The Radio, Skrillex, Big Boi and Randy Newman are also on tap to rock September 16-18.

3-Day passes are sold out. 1-Day passes go on sale at 10am. Full lineup below...

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"In the annals of Latin music, 2010 will be remembered as the year that Bomba Estereo. blew up.

Hailing from Bogota;'s thriving underground scene, Bomba Estereo. (literally, Stereo Bomb) has honed an infectiously grooving sound that combines cumbia, Colombia's hugely influential folkloric dance rhythm, with electronica and hip-hop. Following in the footsteps of Colombian rock en espanol stars Aterciopelados and Juanes, the band has found an avid international audience since the 2009 North American release of "Blow Up" (Nacional Records).

Last year, Bomba lit up major stages around the world, from Bonnaroo and Brooklyn's Prospect Park to France's Trans Musicales Festival and Barcelona's Sónar festival. But nothing raised the band's visibility like winning the "Best New Band in the World" contest on MTV Iggy, a station dedicated to "breakthrough music and pop culture from around the globe" (one of MTV's last outposts dedicated largely to music).
[Mercury News]

Bomba Estereo have been touring North America since performing at Coachella in April, and if you missed their sold out show Saturday night at SOB's, there's one more NYC chance Sunday at Southpaw. After Brooklyn they head to Boston, Montreal and eventually back to California before May ends. All tour dates and a couple of videos below...

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Memorial Day Weekend officially opened the summer, and for those in the Pacific Northwest it also brought Sasquatch Music Festival (pictures from all three days are coming soon). Now the lineup for its Labor Day cousin, Bumbershoot 2010, has been announced. That fest, happening at Seattle, WA's Seattle Center September 4th-6th, will include headliners Bob Dylan, Mary J. Blige, Weezer, Hole, Rise Against, Neko Case, The Decemberists, J. Cole and "one more very special guest to be announced soon."

Tickets (including non-Mainstage 'economy' passes) are on sale now. The rest of the lineup (by day) for the seven-stage festival is posted below...

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Celebrate Brooklyn '09 (more by Chris La Putt)

The Celebrate Brooklyn series' 2010 schedule is out. Check out the free (or $3 suggested donation) shows that will be happening at Prospect Park this summer below.

There's the previously mentioned shows with Norah Jones, Konono No. 1, Sonic Youth (who have Talk Normal and Grass Widow opening for them), Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings with Budos Band, Swell Season and the Low Anthem, Metric, The Roots and Allen Toussaint, all for free. The ticketed benefit shows are Rufus Wainwright on July 20th, Dead Weather on August 3rd, and already-sold-out shows with Passion Pit and The National.

The full schedule is below...

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