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Levitation festival will stream live in 360 this weekend

They’re streaming sets from Animal Collective, Courtney Barnett, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, Ty Segall & the Muggers, Royal Trux, Thurston Moore Band, Black Mountain, Uncle Acid, Parquet Courts, and more

L.A. duo Magic Wands releasing second LP 'Jupiter' (listen), playing Austin Levitation & other shows

Los Angeles duo Magic Wands will release their second album, Jupiter, on Friday (2/26) via Cleopatra Records. Mixing elements of gothy postpunk and ethereal psych (with no shortage of hooks), their sound might best be described as “witchy…

Courtney Barnett, Ween, The Arcs, Melody's Echo Chamber, Klaus Johann Grobe & more added to 2016 Levitation lineup

Austin’s Levitation Fest just announced a bunch of great additions to its 2016 lineup, including Courtney Barnett, Ween, The Arcs, Melody’s Echo Chamber, plus Swiss krautrockers Klaus Johann Grobe (finally coming to North America), David J & The Gentlemen Thieves (performing Love & Rockets / Bauhaus songs), Holy Wave, Wall of Death, Nots, Christian Bland & The Revelators, Magic Wands, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Bayonne, Federale, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Sm…

SXSW announces third round of 2016 artists

SXSW already announced two rounds of 2016 artists, and today a third round was announced, including L7, Bloc Party, The Cult, Loretta Lynn, Waxahatchee, Frankie Cosmos, D∆WN, Polica, Dilly Dally, Eleanor Friedberger, Protomartyr, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Fat White Family, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, All Dogs, Judy Collins & Ari Hest, The Dandy Warhols, Des Ark, Mick Jenkins, Lady Leshurr, Mitski, Supersuckers, Teen Suicide, together PANGEA, Turnover, Younghusband an…

tix on sale: Chelsea Light Moving, Solange, Savages, Shuggie Otis, Cold War Kids, Night of 1000 Stevies & more

Tickets for Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving show at Bowery Ballroom go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets for the newly-added Solange show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today a…

Noise Pop expands 2010 lineup - updates include !!!, Far, Yoko Ono & Memory Tapes who is touring soon

DOWNLOAD: Memory Tapes – Bicycle (MP3) The intial lineup for Noise Pop 2010, which takes over San Francisco February 23rd to March 1st, has been updated…

The xx - Mercury show moved to Bowery (Best New Music), 2nd Webster Hall date added (CMJ w/ School of Seven Bells)

The xx @ South Street Seaport in August (more by Chris La Putt)”Strongly influenced by modern R&B– the made hay with an early cover of Womack & Womack‘s “Teardrops”, while UK copies of xx come packed with their version of Aaliyah‘s “Hot Like Fire”– the xx use a drum machine to complement their copiously tidy compositions…

The Kills - 2009 tour dates (w/ Horrors), a new EP, live pics

London’s The Kills announce a 22-date US tour, beginning in Indio, CA at the Coachella Arts and Music Festival on April 19th. , the band’s 3rd full length album was released last year on Domino Records…