Tickets for the Depeche Mode shows at Barclays Center and Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre with Bat for Lashes go on general sale Saturday (4/6) at 10 AM. Meanwhile, many presales have been going on, incuding the LiveNation mobile and venue presale, which starts today at 10 AM. The password for the Facebook Presale is "DELTA." Other passwords to try for other presales include "SHOWERS" and "MACHINE."

Tickets to see Paul McCartney at Fenway Park go on sale today at 10 AM.

Individual Day Tickets for Governors Ball go on sale today at 11 AM.

Tickets to see Devendra Banhart at Town Hall go on sale today at 11 AM.

Tickets to see Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg with Andrew W.K. at Irving Plaza go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for their Santos Party House show are still available.

Tickets to see The Antlers at Le Poisson Rouge go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets to see The Official XXL Freshman Live Concert with Schoolboy Q, Trinidad James, Joey Bada$$, Ab Soul, Logic, Action Bronson, Kirko Bangz, Travis Scott, Dizzy Wright, and Angel Haze at Best Buy Theater go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Wire at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Matthew E. White at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Aaron Freeman (fka Gene Ween) at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Yes at The Capitol Theatre go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Still Corners at Mercury Lounge and tickets to see them at Glasslands go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Chvrches at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Subhumans at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Come at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Half Moon Run at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Escort is playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 24. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Jake Bugg is playing Webster Hall on September 17. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Ani DiFranco is playing Town Hall on November 16. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Fitz & The Tantrums are playing Irving Plaza on June 30. Tickets for that show go on sale today at 10 AM.

Pokey LaFarge is playing Bowery Ballroom on June 4. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Selah Sue and Bushwalla show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Rachael Yamagata and Sanders Bohlke are playing Maxwell's on July 12 and Bowery Ballroom on July 13. Tickets to the Maxwell's show and tickets for their Bowery Ballroom show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for The Heavy show at Webster Hall go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Stumblebum Brass Band and Bad Buka show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the HARD NYC: Hot Natured with Jamie Jones, Lee Foss and Infinity Ink show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the The Gantry and The Wilderness of Manitoba show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine is playing Bowery Ballroom on July 3. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Bad Veins and Born Cages are playing Mercury Lounge on May 18. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Anders & Kendall and Chris Mills is playing Mercury Lounge on May 29. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV)

After it was already confirmed that Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, The Postal Service, The National, The Killers, and Mumford and Sons were playing Lollapalooza 2013, a pretty promising leak came which appeared to potentially reveal the rest of the lineup, and it turns out that leak was real.

In addition to the previously mentioned artists, Lollapalooza will include Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Grizzly Bear, The Cure, New Order, Baroness, Beach House, Cat Power, Death Grips, Jessie Ware, Father John Misty, DIIV, Wavves, Alt-J, Hot Chip, Disclosure, Baauer, Palma Violets, Angel Haze, Band of Horses, Crystal Castles and many others.

Lollapalooza goes down in Chicago from August 2 - 4 in Grant Park. Single day passes go on sale Wednesday (4/3) at 10 AM.

Full day-by-day lineup below...

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Osheaga Festival is returning to Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 2-4. This year's lineup includes The Cure, Mumford and Sons, Phoenix, New Order, Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, Hot Chip, Alt-J, Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Big Boi, Baauer, Father John Misty, Disclosure, Frightened Rabbit, Angel Haze, Jessie Ware, DIIV, Guards, and many more.

3-Day passes go on sale Friday (3/15) at noon. There are still over 20 artists TBA, but you can browse the complete initial lineup below...

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photos by PSquared Photography

Jake Bugg @ Bowery Ballroom, 1/14/2013

Although his self-titled debut album is not out in the USA yet, that didn't stop the sold out crowd from singing along to his European hits "Taste It," "Country Song," and "Lightning Bolt." I'll be posting a video from the show in the coming days so stay tuned. Jake Bugg is so talented and again when you consider how young he is and how great he already sounds, it will blow your mind. As I tend to do when I go to concerts, I had the opportunity to tell Jake Bugg how great his show was and he was extremely cool. - [According to G]

UK charts-topping youngster Jake Bugg played a sold-out show Bowery Ballroom last night (1/14), his first NYC show with his band. (He played solo acoustic at The Slipper Room back in December.) If you've got free time this afternoon, you can see Jake Bugg at The Living Room today (1/15) at 4 PM. The show is free but it would probably be wise to get there early as it is a tiny venue (that won't be around much longer at its current location).

More pics from last night's Jake Bugg show, including ones of opener Valerie June, below...

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Jake Bugg at The Slipper Room, 12/6/12 (more by PSquared Photography)

UK sensation Jake Bugg plays Bowery Ballroom tonight (1/14) which is sold out. If you didn't get tickets, he's playing a special acoustic show The Living Room on Tuesday afternoon (1/15) for FREE. It's a taping for the Last.FM Sessions, and starts in the afternoon. Jake's other upcoming dates now also include SXSW.

Meanwhile, The Living Room is closing at the end of this month but are looking for a new location, which will be the third for the Lower East Side club. You can help.

Flyer for the Living Room show is below...

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Frightened Rabbit @ T5, Nov. 2010 (more by Lionel Bergeron)

SXSW has just announced another round of bands for the 2013 edition of the annual music festival that will happen March 12 - 17. This brings the total current number of acts to around 1300. Someome of the highlights include Vampire Weekend, Frightened Rabbit, The Thermals, Black Lips, Camera Obscura, Merchandise, Bleached, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Eagles of Death Metal, Parenthetical Girls, Indians, Night Beds, IO Echo, KEN Mode, Prince Paul, Pure Bathing Culture, Sepalcure, UK motorik post-punks TOY, Finnish instrumentalists K-X-P, Toronto's Moon King, UK indie rockers Splashh (not Brooklyn Splash with one "h") and loads more. Head to BV Austin for the whole Round 3 list.

Alt-J at Mercury Lounge in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Big day for award nominations. The Oscars announced theirs this morning and the Brit Awards just wrapped up their ceremony for 2013 nominations, with Emeli Sandé grabbing four and Mumford & Sons and Alt-J each getting three. All three of those artists were nominated for British Album of the Year, a list that also included Paloma Faith and Plan B. If you don't know, The Brits are basically the UK's equivalent of the Grammys, though nominees are all British apart from a few "International" awards.

Jessie Ware, Muse, and Adele each got two nominations, and single-digit noms went to Bat for Lashes, The xx, Richard Hawley and The Vaccines.

Mumford & Sons have two nights at Barclays Center in February and Alt-J will swing though town in March.

The entire 2013 Brit Awards nominees list is below.

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photos by PSquared Photography

Jake Bugg @ The Slipper Room, 12/6/2012

While he has toured parts of America already, opening for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, 18-year-old UK sensation Jake Bugg just made his NYC live debut, solo acoustic style, last Thursday (December 6) at the Slipper Room where he played a set of songs from his debut album (which went to #1 over there). We've got pictures from this intimate show (including opener Aaron Lee Tasjan) in this post, as well as video of him doing "Trouble Town."

Jake will be back next month, this time with his band, for a show at Bowery Ballroom on January 14 and tickets are still available. More pics from the Slipper Room are below.

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Q Magazine put out their Top 50 albums of 2012 list, choosing to do so in no particular order this year, making it more a pile than a list. Check out Q's picks in alphabetical order below.

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The story goes that 18-year-old Jake Bugg - born Jacob Kennedy - picked up an acoustic guitar a few years ago and found himself writing songs in the urban-troubadour mould of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, with a touch of skiffle madness to leaven the folk-pop tales of Nottingham housing estates. Instead of heeding a friend's advice to audition for Britain's Got Talent, he plugged away at small gigs until he caught the attention of a label. Before you could say "shades of Lonnie Donegan", he was No 1 in the album chart, and being touted as the antidote to manufactured pop.

The back-story is probably true enough, but there is also the stamp of marketing intervention: the flop-top haircut is too L'Uomo Vogue and the sepia album photography too artful to be self-generated. Moreover, most of his tunes are co-writes with professionals such as Iain Archer. What's not in doubt is his talent. For 50 minutes, Bugg transfixes a horribly humid Koko, and if he's not quite Dylan, nor is he some pretty mannequin. - [The Guardian]

18-year-old singer-songwriter Jake Bugg hails from Nottingham, UK and is one of the biggest success stories of the year over there. Last month his eponymous album debuted at #1 in the UK charts, knocking Mumford & Sons out of the top spot and made it to #9 on NME's Top 50 LPs of 2012 list.

Jake Bugg just wrapped up a North American tour with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Snow Patrol (it didn't hit NYC) and has a couple NYC shows coming up. He will play The Slipper room on December 6 (tickets still available) and has just announced a headlining show at happening Bowery Ballroom on January 14. Tickets to that show go on AmEx presale today at noon with a regular on-sale on Friday (11/30). No other North American shows at the moment.

Videos below...

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Long-running UK music weekly NME has just published their Year-End issue and have named Tame Impala's Lonerism as album of the year, with Grimes, Frank Ocean, Crystal Castles and Alt-J rounding out the Top 5. Tame Impala offshoot Pond comes in at #7. Check out the entire Top 50 list below.

As mentioned before, Tame Impala just announced a 2013 tour, and will play Terminal 5 in NYC on February 19. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (11/30) at noon.

NME's Top 50 LPs of 2012 are listed below.

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