Outside Lands Fest 2012 (more byAmoreena Lucero)

The 2013 edition of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival with happen at Golden Gate Park on August 9 - 11. This year's line-up includes Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, D'Angelo, Willie Nelson, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Hall & Oates, Foals, A-Track, Jurassic 5, Kurt Vile and many more. Tickets go on sale Thursday (4/18) at noon PDT.

This is the sixth edition of Outside Lands, and the full announced line-up is below.

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Weird Al and Bonarroo phone bank (including Mike Birbiglia and Eugene Mirman...

With help from Eugene Mirman, Chris Gethard, Mike Birbiglia, Portugal. The Man and more, Weird Al just began announcing the 2013 Bonnaroo line-up on the Bonnaroo YouTube page which happens June 13 - 16 in Manchester, TN. Weird Al just announced Pretty Lights, Wilco, A$AP Rocky, and The xx, and over the next hour, more artists will be announced. We'll update this post as more announcements come.

Other artists playing include Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Jim James, Big K.R.I.T., Billy Idol, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, Foals, Wild Nothing, Deap Vally, Killer Mike, Lord Huron, Divine Fits, Nas, Beach House, The Gaslight Anthem, Local Natives, Dirty Projectors, Baroness, The National, The Vaccines, Holy Ghost, Death Grips, R. Kelly, Alt-J, Purity Ring, Cat Power, Wu-Tang Clan, Bjork, Tame Impala, Animal Collective, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Paul McCartney, Earl Sweatshirt, Four Tet, Father John Misty, Swans, A-Trak, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Cults, AraabMuzik, DIIV, Charli XCX, Matthew E. White, Frank Turner, JEFF the Brotherhood, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Calexico, Two Gallants, and more.

Tickets for the festival go on sale Saturday (2/23) at noon EST.

There's also now a video of Daniel Tosh announcing the initial lineup, which you can watch, along with the current list of announced names, below...

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Tickets for the third Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Sharon Van Etten show at Beacon Theatre go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Toro y Moi show at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Wild Belle and Dog Bite go on sale today at noon. Tickets for their Webster Hall show are still available.

Tickets for the Ty Segall show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon. Tickets for his Webster Hall show with Mac DeMarco are still available.

Tickets for the Chelsea Light Moving (Thurston Moore's new band) show at Maxwell's with Talk Normal go on sale today at noon. Tickets are not on sale yet for their Bowery Ballroom show.

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

Tickets for the Iceage, White Lung, and Parquet Courts show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Psychic Ills and Nude Beach show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Opeth and Katatonia show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

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

Tickets for the Jacco Gardner show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon. No advance tickets for his Death by Audio show.

Tickets for the Lord Huron show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Gojira, Devin Townsend, and The Atlas Moth show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for The Residents show at Stage 48 are on sale now.

Tickets for The 2 Bears show at Le Poisson Rouge are on sale now.

Tickets for the School of Seven Bells show at Music Hall of Williamsburg are on sale now. They also play a free NYC show next week.

Spacehog are playing Maxwell's on February 1. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Milo Greene are playing Maxwell's on March 10. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Toots & the Maytals, Galactic, and Nigel Hall Band show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon.

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

As mentioned previously, Milo Greene will be playing Bowery Ballroom on October 25 with Lucius. If you'd like to see the band at Bowery sooner, they're playing a private Logitech UE-sponsored show on Wednesday (8/29) with Frances Cone and we're giving away a few pairs of tickets. One of those pair of tickets will come with a new Logitech UE music product the details of which will be announced on Wednesday as well. Details on how to win tickets are at the bottom of this post.

You can stream a few Milo Greene songs below.

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by Andrew Sacher

LA's Milo Greene (a 5-piece band, not a person) released their debut self titled LP last week (7/17) on Atlantic imprint Chop Shop Records which is run by Alexandra Patsavas (music supervisor to Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, and the Twilight Films). They're definitely of the Mumford and Sons/mindie folk variety, though less rootsy and a bit like a sober Arcade Fire. You can stream three tracks from the album below, along with the cover art and tracklist.

Milo Greene are on the road supporting the record, and they'll play a sold show in NYC at Mercury Lounge tonight (7/26) with Family of the Year. If you missed out on getting tickets to that show, don't fret. They'll be back in NYC for a show on October 25 at Bowery Ballroom with Lucius. Tickets for that show are on AmEx presale now and go on sale to the general public on Friday (7/27) at noon.

A list of all dates, streams, cover art and tracklist are below.

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The 2012 edition of MusicFestNW takes place in September 5 - 9 at 18 venues in Portland, OR and will feature performances from over 150 bands, including Passion Pit, Hot Snakes, Girl Talk, Danny Brown, Beirut Silversun Pickups, Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, many more.

In addition to those previously announced artists, MFNW has just added The Hives, Flying Lotus, Wild Nothing, DIIV, Quasi, Moon Duo, My Goodness, DZ Deathrays, and Strand Of Oaks to the already impressive line-up. Wristbands, available various levels and packages, and tickets to individual shows are on sale now. Check out the complete MFNW lineup below.

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Lollapalooza (more by Grant MacAllister)

Chicago Sun Times reports:

Lollapalooza has revealed its official 2012 list of performers -- a typically wide-ranging smorgasbord of genres and styles topped by nearly a dozen mainstage headliners: the Red Hot Chili Peppers, freshly reunited bands Black Sabbath and At the Drive-In, the Black Keys, Jack White, Florence + The Machine, the Shins and Passion Pit, plus spotlighted electronic music including Swedish house titan Avicii, French dance duo Justice and DJ-producer Bassnectar.

The annual music festival is scheduled for Aug. 3-5 in Chicago's Grant Park.

Rumored lineups have circulated widely, as they usually do, and Lollapalooza itself stoked the speculation in recent weeks via a series of CTA and online advertisements that seemed to hint at who would be playing.

The ads featured lyrics from such acts as Sigur Ros, Santigold, Jack White, Kimbra, Twin Shadow, the Weeknd, Bloc Party and more -- all bands that wound up on the bill.

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