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The Austin festival includes Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gorillaz, The Killers, Chance the Rapper, Ice Cube, Run the Jewels, Solange, and more.

The 2017 edition of Austin City Limits returns to Zilker Park in Austin, TX, with Gorillaz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jay Z, Chance The Rapper, The Killers, The xx, Ryan Adams, Ice Cube, Solange, Run the Jewels, Spoon, A$AP Ferg, First Aid Kit, D.R.A.M., Angel Olsen, and more

Ought frontman Tim Darcy is releasing his debut solo album, Saturday Night, on February 17 via Jagjaguwar. He made the album on nights and weekends in Toronto, around the same time that Ought were recording their second album…

Also: Best Coast, Wavves, Chuck D, Snoop Doog, Talib Kweli, Waxahathcee, PWR BTTM, Laura Jane Grace, Modern Baseball, Cloud Nothings, Spoon, St. Vincent, & more.

Before Katie & Allison Crutchfield got more fame in Waxhatchee (Katie’s project, but also featuring Allison) and Swearin’ (a band co-fronted by Allison), not to mention Allison’s newly-Merge-signed solo project, they played together in the indie pop-punk band P.S. Eliot, who broke up in 2011. In the time since their breakup, P.S. Eliot’s music gained a cult following…

Pre-Waxahatchee/Swearin’ band PS Eliot reuniting once again for a Brooklyn show before Asbury Park’s New Alternative Music Fest. Waxahatchee is also releasing ‘Early Recordings’ in June.

Earlier this month (5/13-15), Atlanta’s fourth annual Shaky Knees music festival went down at Centennial Olympic Park. Headliners included Jane’s Addiction performing 1990’s Ritual de lo habitual in full, the 1975, My Morning Jacket, Florence + the Machine and the reunited At the Drive In.

The festival aims to be “held in direct opposition to the apolitical sludge that has come to pass as ‘indie’ and that has nothing to do with operating independently.” They add, “There will be no sponsors, no backdoor advertising via branded content, or other base money-making schemes.”

Montreal’s Ought will be on tour this spring with DC’s Priests and that includes two NYC shows: Silent Barn on May 7 with Florist and Rough Trade on May 8 with Palberta…

Mexican garage rockers Le Butcherettes spent the past year touring with Antemasque, Melvins, and Faith No More, and also released their newest album A Raw Youth on FNM frontman Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordi…