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The first round of acts revealed for the eighth annual Savannah Stopover festival include of Montreal, Shopping, Public Access TV, Ratboys, Michael Nau, The Nude Party, and more.

The new album was produced by Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), and “The Hype” is one of the funkier (and catchier) songs they’ve made yet, while retaining that short, sharp, post-punk sound.

The 2018 SXSW Music Festival, which runs March 12 – 18 in Austin, TX, has announced the first round of showcasing artists, which includes The Wedding Present, Rich Chigga, Cut Worms, Shamir, Snail Mail, Totally Mild…

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Shopping, Drake/Future, Warren Haynes’ Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration, Sean Price memorial and more NYC show options for your Sunday.

This year’s lineup includes Daniel Johnston, Deerhoof, Elf Power, His Name is Alive, the original lineup of Love Tractor, Bunnygrunt, Dressy Bessy, and more.

UK band Shopping will be back in North America this summer for a short tour as they head to LA’s Berserktown III.

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…

We already mentioned that Drive Like Jehu were playing and curating curating the second weekend of a two-weekend, Wales-set edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties 2…

Like in past years, several Don Giovanni Records artists have given us lists of their favorite music (and more) of the year. This time we’ve got lists from Downtown Boys (who, amazingly, include the blink-182/Drake mashup), Screaming Females, Tenement, Izzy True, Shellshag, Worriers, Mikey Erg, Vacation, Aye Nako, Roadside Graves, comedian Chris Gethard, and label co-founder

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland…