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Plus: Mountain Goats, New Pornographers, Lollapalooza 2024, The Pretenders, Hot 97 Summer Jam, Antlers/Okkervil River, Fatboy Slim, Hatebreed, High on Fire, A Day to Remember, and more tour and festival news.

Austin’s Levitation festival runs October 27-30 with OSEES, King Gizzard, JAMC, The Black Angels, Trail of Dead, Godspeed, Protomartyr, Os Mutantes, Moon Duo and lots more.

Levitation 2022 happens October 27-30 in downtown Austin, and the lineup also includes OS Mutantes, W.I.T.C.H., Viagra Boys, Shame, L7, Cold Cave, La Femme, Moon Duo and more.

The festival features Emperor, Suicidal Tendencies, and Mercyful Fate as headliners, plus Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Warpaint, GZA & Inspectah Deck, Mayhem, Carcass, Raekwon & Ghostface Killah, Paradise Lost, and more…

New additions to this year’s lineup include Blood Incantation, Warthog, The Dwarves, Nitzer Ebb, and Gaslamp Killer.

Treefort Music Fest happens September 22-26 in Downtown Boise and performers include Japanese Breakfast, Built to Spill, Calexico, Andy Shaur, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, Mdou Moctar, Lightning Bolt, and over 300 more.

As mentioned, Panache Booking’s annual Valentine’s Day Village of Love benefits for Planned Parenthood have expanded well beyond New York City, and in 2020 there are shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Miami…

Tuesday show options include Joanna Newsom, Deerhunter/Dirty Projectors, Boris/Uniform, Fontaines DC, Raphael Saadiq, The Men, more.

Wooden Shjips, Death Valley Girls, Cosomonauts, L.A. Witch, Vinyl Williams, and more were also added.

This will be outsider cult musician Jandek’s first NYC show in six years.