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The Hopscotch Music Festival returns in 2016 to various Raleigh, NC venues from September 8-10. The lineup is impressive as always, with Television, Wolf Parade, Converge, Baroness, Yob, Tribulation, Erykah Badu, Young Thug, Sylvan Esso, Vince Staples, Anderson Paak, Beach House, Beach Slang, Andrew Bird, Cobalt, Downtown Boys, Julien Baker, Quilt, Lambchop, Lavender Country, Big […]

Fields Festival is a three-day camping/music festival happening 30 minutes north of Baltimore City in rural Darlington, Maryland’s Camp Ramblewood (just outside of Havre de Grace). 2016 is the festival’s third consecutive year, and this one happens from August 19 – 21 with an impressive lineup including The Sun Ra Arkestra, Dan Deacon, Wolf Eyes, […]

Bob Mould, The Helio Sequence, Jame Chance, NOFX, Pharmakon, Håkan Hellström, Naughty by Nature and lots more NYC show options for your Friday.

Berserktown is an annual festival that goes down in LA that’s more interested in booking challenging music than big names (like for example, Destruction Unit and Thee Oh Sees were headliners last year). It returns for its third year from August 12-14 at the Teragram Ballroom and includes Psychic TV performing their 1982 album Force The Hand Of Change in full with guests, Ana Curra performing a set of music from her short-lived goth band Paralisis Permanente (who existed from 1981-1983), veteran UK DJ Powell, repeat offenders Destruction Unit (billed as “Destruction Unit + Friends”), the first-ever US show from long-running Swedish noise rockers Brainbombs, Danish punks Gorilla Angreb (who initially broke up in 2007), Hank Wood + the Hammerheads…

UB40 and The Wailers are playing Terminal 5 on August 23. Tickets go on Ticketmaster presale today at 10 AM and AmEx presale at noon and general sale starts on Friday (2…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Protomartyr, Priests, Beech Creeps @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Protomartyr’s third album, The Agent Intellect, picked up right where Under Color Of Official Right left off — nuanced and powerful post-punk over which frontman Joe Casey tells tales of barroom poets, casually negligent parents, and other fun subje…

TIny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 list today. Like last year, it’s certainly a good list for anyone who’s tired of seeing the same artists on every list (though it does have Kendrick Lamar, Sufjan Stevens, Future, Bjork, Drake, Joanna Newsom, Carly Rae Jepsen, Grimes and other popular …

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Kevin Devine, Tigers Jaw, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy), Cymbals Eat Guitars, Laura Stevenson, Owen @ Bell House Everyone on this show (except Laura Stevenson) contributed to Kevin Devine’s split singles series that he gradually rolled out this y…

If you’re sick of seeing the same names atop every publication’s year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different…

Chicago avant-punks ONO released two albums in the ’80s before disappearing and not resurfacing with a third until 2012’s Albino. It was released which goes from November 5-7 and also includes Flipper with David Yow (who play NYC on Halloween), Screaming Females, Terrence Dixon, Downtown Boys, Container, Pile, Guerilla Toss, and ex-Battles member …