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The album is “not lost as much as unloved,” according to the album jacket. Escape-ism has dates with Oh Sees, No Age and Shannon & The Clams this fall.

They join such previously announced names as Grouper, Efrim Menuck (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor), The Haxan Cloak with Nick Zinner, Lightning Bolt, and more.

The June edition of Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off party featured a killer, post-punky co-headline double bill of UK group Shopping and DC’s Priests, both of whom were in great form…

Pitchfork have added more acts to their music and beer festival, OctFest. Some of the OctFest acts also recently played Pitchfork’s Northside showcase, and pictures of that show are in this post…

“If I were running this festival, I would want to take a position on this. I would want to say: ‘I’m sorry, we don’t want your money, because we’re worried about where it comes from.’ So it is a whitewash actually.” – Brian Eno

The lineup also includes Prince’s backing band The Revolution, Thundercat, dvsn, Liz Phair, Waxahatchee, Gang Gang Dance, Body/Head, Grouper, U.S. Girls, Haliu Mergia, and more.

Priests are currently in California where they just played weekend 1 of Coachella. They’ve got an official Coachella Side show tonight (4/18) at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, and will play weekend 2 on Saturday (4/21). After that, Priests will join Franz Ferdinand on tour…

We survived SXSW and this week on our SiriusXMU show we’re playing both artists who played our showcases and day parties but also ones we thought were great.

BrooklynVegan and Margin Walker’s free Lost Weekend 2 SXSW day parties at Cheer Up Charlies in Austin began on Thursday (3/15) with U.S. Girls, Okkervil River, Speedy Ortiz, IDLES, Shopping, Flasher, Stella Donnelly, Becca Mancari, and more.