Savages at Coachella 2013 (more by Dana [distortion] Yavin)

As mentioned, Savages are going on a tour this summer, which includes a NYC show happening at Webster Hall on July 11 (sold out). The band is coming back to North America in September to play Detroit's Laneway Festival and will be stopping in NYC on the way there for their biggest show here yet: Terminal 5 on September 12. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (6/14) at noon.

This is the inaugural Detroit Laneway Festival (which has happened in other cites since 2004) which will take place at Meadow Brook in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The line-up also includes The National, Sigur Ros, Alunageorge, Charli XCX, Chet Faker, Chvrches, Deerhunter, The Dismemberment Plan, Flume, Frightened Rabbit, Haerts, Icona Pop, My Brightest Diamond, Phosphorescent, Run The Jewels (El-P + Killer Mike), Solange, Warpaint, Washed Out, and Youth Lagoon. Tickets for the are on sale now.

Updated dates are listed, along with the videos of Savages performing two songs on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, below...

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photos by Jonathon Bernstein

Shout Out Louds @ Webster Hall, 5/10/2013

Shout Out Louds played their second NYC show in two months on Friday night (5/10) at Webster Hall. The poppy Swedes -- who also played one of the BV day parties at SXSW this year -- are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their tuneful new album, Optica, but made time for older favorites like "Impossible," "Tonight I Have to Leave It" and "Very Loud" as well. Opening the night was New York quintet HAERTS. More pics from Webster Hall are below.

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Phoenix at MSG in 2010 (more by Andrew St. Clair)

First, Phoenix announced that their long awaited followup to 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix would be out this April, then they revealed that it's called Bankrupt! and made their first North American show announcement of 2013: New Orleans Jazz Festival. They've since been revealed as a Coachella headliner and now they've got even more North American dates scheduled, including one that's not too far from NYC: Columbia, MD's Sweetlife Festival, which goes down at Merriweather Post Pavillion on May 11 (about a 3 and a half hour drive from NYC). Their schedule currently has a week or so free on either side of of the Sweetlife fest...hmm.

And the rest of Sweetlife lineup ain't too shabby either. Joining Phoenix will be Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Solange, Youth Lagoon, Holy Ghost!, Gary Clark Jr, MS MR, and more. Tickets for the festival go on sale Friday (2/8) at 10 AM with a presale beginning on Wednesday (2/6).

The full lineup and announcement video for Sweetlife, and a list of all Phoenix dates below...

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SXSW is no doubt a great way to see a lot of bands in a short amount of time and can be a lot of fun. But it can also be a little much for some. If you'd like to see many of the same bands but in a more genteel setting, you might be interested in The Savannah Stopover which happens the weekend before SXSW (March 7 - 9) in at various clubs in Savannah, Georgia. Over 100 bands will play, including Of Montreal, Merchandise, Mac DeMarco, Chelsea Light Moving, Hunters, Braids, Delicate Steve, Turbo Fruits, Ducktails and loads more.

Tickets ($30 per day or $75 for three-day pass) are on sale now and more info is at Savannah Stopover's website. The full announced lineup is below.

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Tickets for the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Sharon Van Etten shows at Beacon Theatre are on sale now.

Tickets for The Mission UK show at Irving Plaza go on sale today at 10 AM.

IAMX (aka Chris Corner of Sneaker Pimps) is playing Irving Plaza on April 26. Tickets for that show go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets for the intimate Cake show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon. Tickets for their Wellmont Theatre show are still available also.

Tickets for the Soundgarden show at Terminal 5 go on Fan Club presale today at noon.

Tickets for the Django Django shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Big Dipper show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Efterklang show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Goat show at Glasslands are on sale now.

Sky Ferreira is playing Santos Party House on January 10 with Haerts. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Tickets for the Indians show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the The Amazing show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Thao & the Get Down Stay Down show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Darwin Deez show at Bowery Ballroom, which Caged Animals are opening, go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Buke and Gase show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Takka Takka and Pattern is Movement show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Shout Out Louds show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals are playing The Capitol Theatre on February 23. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo are playing The Capitol Theatre on January 26 with Brynn Marie. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

The Lumineers, who just received a few Grammy nominations, are playing Terminal 5 on February 1 and 2. Tickets for both shows go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, REM, Big Star, etc) show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Lushlife and Steven A. Clark show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.