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Virgin FreeFest 2013 lineup (MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Washed Out, Icona Pop, CHVRCHES & more)

The VIrgin Mobile FreeFest is returning for its fifth year on September 21 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. This year’s lineup leans pretty heavily on indie/pop crossover with names like MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Washed Out, The Avett Brothers, CHVRCHES, Icona Pop, Sky Ferreira, Robin Thicke, Pretty Lights, Kaskade, and m…

Maryland's Sweetlife Music & Food fest announces 2013 lineup; Phoenix playing there and other dates

Phoenix at MSG in 2010 (more by Andrew St. Clair) First, Phoenix announced that their long awaited followup to 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix would be out this April, then they revealed that it’s called Bankrupt…

Maryland & Maine voters legalize same sex marriage

Though there seems to be some dispute at the moment about who is “first”, history was made Tuesday (for more more than one reason). Baltimore Sun reports:Maryland made history yesterday as the first state to approve gay marriage at the ballot box…

Virgin FreeFest announces 2011 lineup (includes "James Murphy solo" and many more)

The above pictures is a screen shot from the Virgin Freefest lineup announcement video that they posted to YouTube. The girl behind the words exclaims, “James Murphy solo…

MD's Sweetlife Festival announces Strokes as headliner

The Sweetlife Festival, scheduled for Saturday, April 30th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, has announced The Strokes as headliner…

Pavement played Virgin FreeFest (setlist) after completing their run of 5 NYC shows (one more set of Summerstage pics)

After six nights in gotham that included one show in a bonafide downpour, two TV appearances (Colbert and Fallon), and thousands of tickets sold to five live shows, Pavement moved on to Marland Saturday to play the free Virgin Mobile FreeFest that went down at Merriweather Post Pavilion…

Ticketmaster has to pay refunds to Bruce Springsteen fans, loses Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion to Ticketfly

The Boss @ Izod Center in May (more by Tim Griffin)The Federal Trade Commission has settled with Ticketmaster over complaints that Ticketmaster used deceptive tactics to steer Bruce Springsteen fans to expensive scalped tickets last year…