Diarrhea Planet

Dan Deacon, Diarrhea Planet, Dillinger Escape Plan, Eskimeaux, Fu Manchu, Girls Against Boys, Gwar, Jimmy Eat World, Laura Stevenson, Meat Puppets, NOFX, Refused, The Anniversary, The Flaming Lips, The Specials, Tigers Jaw, Ween, and more.

Pussy Riot is the first announcement of the programming for the spoken word/comedy/podcast/panel stage of the festival.

Tons of great stuff went down on Saturday that I wasn't able to see, like Deerhunter, The Julie Ruin, The Bouncing Souls, Cold Cave, Ceremony and Good Riddance, but the highs of what I did catch were very high. My favorite set of the day hands down was Gorilla Biscuits, who played last on the Heaven stage...

The stacked, inaugural Sound on Sound festival (booked by former Fun Fun Fun booker Graham Williams) goes down from November 4-6 in McDade, TX (right outside Austin), and today the daily lineups have been announced. Some new bands were added too...

Also: Courtney Barnett, Death Grips, Young Thug, Mac DeMarco, Charles Bradley, Girls Against Boys, Dead Milkmen, FLAG, Touche Amore, Bob Mould, Baroness, Car Seat Headrest, Protomartyr, Beach Slang, White Lung and so many more.

Also: Julian Marley playing 'Exodus,' Gogol Bordello, The Lillingtons, The Bronx, 2 Chainz and more added.

Nashville triple-guitar shredders Diarrhea Planet were just in NYC, having played Brooklyn Bowl for Northside and made their ripping TV debut by performing "It Ain't A Sin to Win" on Late Night with Seth Meyers. (Seth said they were his Grandmother's favorite band...

Loufest announced its 2016 lineup with headlining slots from the reunited LCD Soundsystem, country breakout Chris Stapleton and neo-soul vet Ms. Lauryn Hill. The seventh annual festival will be held in St. Louis' Forest Park on September 10 & 11...

New Orleans' Sweet Crude is a seven-piece band that includes Alexis Marceaux and Sam Craft (who also play together as Alexis & the Samurai), Sam's brother Jack, and more; and notably they have a strict "no guitars allowed" rule. Also notably, they sing in a mix of English and Cajun French, a dying language in their home state of Louisana. "French was beaten out of our grandparents, but our generation wants to rediscover it"...

You already knew that Riot Fest Denver and Chicago would include a Misfits reunion with Danzig, Doyle and Jerry; and now the full lineups for those fests have been announced. Denver also includes Deftones, Death Cab for Cutie, Nas, Ween, Jane's Addiction (Ritual de lo Habitual), Sleater-Kinney, Descendents, NOFX, Bad Religion, Thursday, Wolf Parade, The Hold Steady (performing Boys & Girls In