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Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival returns from June 1-5, and as always, the lineup is pretty amazing. They’ve got Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets, Air, Brian Wilson (performing Pet Sounds), Beach House, Suede, Beirut, Animal Collective, Pusha T, Action Bronson, Explosions in the Sky, Moderat, John Carpenter, Vince Staples, Drive Like Jehu, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr, Richard Hawley, Kamasi Washington, Neon Indian, Battles, Ty Segall, Julia Holter, Destroyer, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Mudhoney, Boredoms, Royal Headache, Shellac, Dungen, Beach Slang, Venom, Unsane, The Chills, Holly Herndon, Psychic TV, Mbong…

The Big Ears Festival will return in 2016 from March 31 to April 2 to various venues in downtown Knoxville, TN. The lineup includes Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, The Gloaming, Yo La Tengo, Andy Stott, Wolf Eyes, Marc Ribot, Andrew Bird, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lambchop, Shabazz Palaces, Bombino, Molly Nilsson, Laurie Anderson, Sunn O))), Angel Olsen, Faust, Kamasi Washington, Circuit des Yeux, Ikue Mori and many m…

The 2015 Mutek festival happens in Montreal from May 27 – 31 at venues around the city with a host of electronic artists, including Andy Stott, Atom & Robin Fox, Anthony Naples, Basic House, Dasha Rush, Mika Vanio, Sherwood & Pinch, and more…

Though its festivals in the UK and the US are no longer, ATP Iceland is still going and returns in 2015 from July 2 – 4 at Ásbrú in Keflavík…

UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we’ve been seeing on a lot of these lists, it’s a distinctly not-American point of view…

I didn’t know Stefan personally, though I did see him out all the time. The picture above (he’s the one with the hat) was just taken after he won a PAPER nightlife award…