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Icelandic band Múm are playing the 2020 edition of Knoxville's Big Ears, where they'll perform Yesterday Was Dramatic—Today is OK for its 20th anniversary at the festival. While here, they'll be doing their most extensive touring in North America in a decade...

Big Ears happens March 26-29 in Knoxville and the initial lineup also includes Thundercat, Devendra Banhart, Terry Riley, Kim Gordon, and more

The mixtape includes two new songs from Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner's Big Red Machine album, plus collaborations with members of Polica, Gayngs, Boys Noize, Mouse On Mars, alt-J, múm, and more.

The National are throwing their own Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati and playing two ”completely different” sets each night, plus Father John Misty, Feist, Future Islands, The Breeders, Julien Baker, and more will perform.

Icelandic musician and composer Úlfur Hansson has made a name for himself over the last decade collaborating with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Ólöf Arnalds, and Anna Von Hausswolff, and has had works commissioned by The Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet and l’O…

Sigur Rós are hosting a festival called Norður Og Niður which will happen December 27 - 30 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The festival will mark the band's first Icelandic shows in five years, and the initial lineup also includes Stars of the Lid, Juliana Barwick, Dan Deacon and mor…

The annual Iceland Airwaves festival will happen November 2 - 6 in Reykjavík. They've just announced their initial lineup which includes PJ Harvey, Lush, Julia Holter and múm who'll be playing with with Kronos Quartet...

As mentioned, the great filmmaker/composer John Carpenter is releasing Lost Themes II in April, followed by his first-ever live performances, including an appearance at Primavera Sound...

Existing for a barely five years, UK psych band Loop were one of the most perfectly-named bands ever. Rarely bothering with verse-chorus-verse song structure, the South London group took a riff and added layer upon layer till it had its own gravitational field...

SBTRKT in Sweden in 2011 (more)

SBTRKT, who released one of our favorite albums of 2011, is currently on a long international tour that brings him to North America for the sold out Coachellas and a NYC show earlier in April, happening at Webster Hall on April 3...