Tickets to the Grizzly Bear show at Radio City go on sale today at 11 AM.

Tickets for the Social Distortion show at Roseland go on sale today at 11 AM.

Tickets to M83's 2nd Hammerstein show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the The Walkmen show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Ariel Pink show at Webster Hall go on sale today at noon.

Maximo Park are playing Webster Hall on September 13. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Melvins Lite shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Maxwell's go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Bobby Womack show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Alt-J shows at Mercury Lounge and Glasslands go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for The Death Set show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Gotye shows at Radio City and Williamsburg Park went on sale today at 10 AM.

Just a reminder that we're giving away tickets to Metric's Radio City show 9/23. Details on how to enter are HERE.

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Maximo Park's hand written note below...

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Mutek banner in Montreal - May 27, 2009 (bneely)

Mutek, the electronic music festival celebrating its tenth year, is currently underway in Montreal. The five-day fest runs to Sunday, May 31st, and it's streaming online. Moderat, the Modeselektor & Apparat supergroup, performed at Mutek on Thursday, May 28th; the group plays NYC's Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday, May 30th (the show was originally planned for Webster Hall). Tickets are still on sale.

Speaking of parties up North this summer... three other biggies are Ottawa Bluesfest (July 8th-19th), Vancouver Folk Music Festival (July 17-19th) and Calgary Folk Music Festival (July 23rd-26th). Each of those suitably transcend the "blues" and "folk" labels, hosting bands like The Dead Weather and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (in Ottawa), The Weakerthans and Rock Plaza Central (in Vancouver), and The Decemberists, Apostle of Hustle, Kid Koala and Akron/Family (in Calgary). Full lineup for the Calgary Fest (Ottawa in particular is much too massive to post) and ticket info below.

And don't forget about the previously reported Breeders-headlined Sled Island Fest in Calgary on June 24th-27th, Montreal's Osheaga, NXNE, and Toronto's Olympic Island Fest on July 11th, which will host Broken Social Scene and its Arts & Crafts cohorts.

Across the pond, UK's Glastonbury Festival, which runs from June 24th to 28th, has been sold out since February even though the full lineup wasn't announced until this week. Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Blur will be joined by The Specials, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Spinal Tap, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Madness, Tom Jones, Animal Collective and many others.

And finally in the States, Monolith Festival, which runs from September 12th to 13th at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Colorado, has announced its intial lineup, Girl Talk, Passion Pit, and The Walkmen included. The whole thing is posted below.

The weekend before Monolith, Bumbershoot will take place in Seattle (September 5th-7th). That fest's lineup has been updated too. New additions include Vivian Girls, Akron/Family, and Elvis Perkins. All new additions, with previously announced acts, are below. Tickets are still on sale.

In Michigan, the Rothbury Festival over July 4th weekend will feature the only summer fest performance by The Dead, as well as sets by Bob Dylan, String Cheese Incident, Broken Social Scene and more. A few more jam-friendly acts were also just added to the bill. Full lineup below. Tickets are on sale.

Info on all the above fests, with ticket info, below...

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The Noisettes are from London, and their last show was in London on May 9th. According to their public tour dates, their next show is also in the UK (with Maximo Park), and on May 13th, but according to Pianos, we here in NYC can see them for free on Monday, May 11th at 7pm. All dates below...

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Tickets are on AmEx and "venue" presale for the TV On the Radio show in Prospect Park.

Tickets are on AmEx presale for the Jarvis Cocker show at Terminal 5.

Maximo Park is playing Webster Hall on September 21st. Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon).

"The Germs" are playing a show with Krum Bums at Mercury Lounge on July 2nd. Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon).

Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon) for the Deer tick show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon) for the Little Joy show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon) for the N.A.S.A. show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ noon) for the Peaches show at MHOW.

Tickets are onAmEx presale (@ noon) for the Maccabees show at MHOW.

Tickets are on sale for the 2009 Newport Folk Festival.

No tickets necessary to see Ted Leo and Yeasayer at Pier 54.

Tough call, but I think I'm going to have to vote for Escort to win this year's Plug "Music Video of the Year". Check out all twelve of the nominated videos below....

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Deerhoof, Maximo Park, Louis C.K., White Rabbits, Spoon & Art Brut....

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Yesterday we heard about Evan Korte's first day at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona this past weekend. Here is day two....

Band of Horses get a new mic @ Primavera Sound 2007 (CRED)

Band of Horses: I wanted to catch Blonde Redhead and Black Mountain earlier in the day, but I had errands to run and couldn’t leave my apartment until about 9. Band of Horses played a pretty rousing set on the ATP stage, despite the fact that they had horrendous sound trouble. At first the band seemed to have a good sense of humor about it. (“Our microphones are shooting at us,” joked the bassist, “we didn’t know they were loaded. I’m surprised they even let us into the country.”) But when the lead singer’s mic stopped working completely on one song, (“Our Swords,” perhaps?) he stopped the song midway, threw the mic to the ground, and got a loud cheer from the audience. The mic was immediately replaced and the band finished their set in good spirits. There were a few highlights, including “The First Song,” “Great Salt Lake,” and “Funeral.” Well done, boys. Their new album comes out in October.

Maximo Park also played acoustic on the MySpace stage (CRED)

Maximo Park: Maximo Park was quite impressive. It’s clear that they are growing more comfortable as a live band. Their sound was tight and on point. Since they only have two albums, they played through almost all of their songs in about an hour and a half. The lead singer was very charming. He thanked the audience about a million times. He also made fun of himself (“Here’s another romantic song,” he said at one point, “I’m a bit of a sop.”) and begged us all to stay for Modest Mouse at midnight on the ATP stage. Both the front man and the keyboardist showed that they were just two indie kids that weren’t afraid to dance. Highlights included “Our Velocity,” “Girls Who Play Guitar,” “Apply Some Pressure,” “Limassol,” and “Going Missing.”

Los Planetas @ Primavera Sound 2007 (CRED)

Various Artists (Loa Planetas, notably): The couple of hours spent between Maximo Park and Built to Spill consisted of much stage jumping. I was about eight hundred feet back for the last couple of songs of Modest Mouse’s set. The festival should have booked them on the “Estrella Stage” - “All Tomorrow’s Parties Stage” was definitely too small for them. What I did hear, sounded pretty good, and surprisingly dancey. Then I met up with some friends at Girls Against Boys, and stayed for the first couple songs of Low's set (nice, but too slow for one o’clock in the morning). Next I went with some Spanish friends to see Los Planetas, a band that I had never heard of, but are legends in their native Spain. They blew me away. They’ve been around since the early 90’s and you can tell that they were a part of the shoegaze scene of that time. There was lots of reverb on the guitars, and fuzzy vocals. They're similar to My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and early Verve. I strongly recommend them to anyone who likes shoegaze.

Built to Spill @ Primavera Sound 2007 (CRED)

Built to Spill: The 3 am Built to Spill show was my last of the night. They played at the “All Tomorrow’s Parties Stage” and were unfortunately plagued by heavy sound problems. The sound people at the ATP stage had better get their shit together next year. Still, they made the best of it and played a great set. The members of the band may look like cavemen (no offense), but they have been around for almost fifteen years for a reason. They are fantastic musicians who play muscular guitar rock - all around good music that can be enjoyed by anyone. They may not be the most charismatic band in the world (I never heard Doug Marsch say anything beyond “Thanks” and “This is our last song”), but they sure do know how to floor people with their tight jamming. I debated staying around for Diplo who went on the CD Drome techno stage at 5, but my legs weren’t having it.

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Tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion. More Primavera photos below....

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