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This Week's Livestreams (Flying Lotus, Dinosaur Jr., Patti Smith, Danny Brown, more)

Plus Dua Lipa, Rufus Wainwright, Face to Face, Fontaines DC, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Django Django, Oceanator, Trey Anastasio, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

tours announced: Hot Chip, Orville Peck, Reigning Sound, Future Teens, more

Plus: The House of Love, The Bush Tetras, Big Country, Pronoun, DMX, Cam’ron, Quasi, Garcia Peoples, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and more tour-related news.

What's going on Friday?

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Blondie/Liz Phair, Animal Collective playing Sung Tongs, Petal/Camp Cope, Weezer/Pixies, Cindy Lee, Lydia Lunch, and more.

tours announced: Ghost, A Perfect Circle, Nicki Minaj, Speedy Ortiz, more

Plus: Tune-Yards/U.S. Girls, A Flock of Seagulls/Wang Chung, Everything is Terrible, Bodega, LVL UP, Alkaline Trio, and more just-announced tour news.

an interview with Beach Slang, whose debut album 'The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us' is streaming (listen)

In certain punk and indie rock circles, Beach Slang were without competition the most exciting new band of 2014. The members were already mainstays in the Pennsylvania punk scene, having done time in Weston, Ex Friends, NONA and other bands, and they came together to create music that felt instantly familiar yet fresh at the same t…