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Over 600 artists are participating, including Beck & Cage the Elephant, Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie, Vampire Weekend, Mary J Blige and Nas, The Black Keys, Heart, The 1975, Coheed and Cambria and Mastodon, Flatbush Zombies and Joey Bada$$, and more.

Live Nation is once again offering $20 tickets (including service fees) to over 2000 shows happening this summer with what they call National Concert Week. There are over 600 artists participating, including: Beck & Cage the Elephant, Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie, Vampire Weekend, Mary J Blige and Nas, The Black Keys, Heart, The 1975, and tons more.

Live Nation is once again offering $20 “all-in” (aka service fees included) tickets to over 2000 shows  happening this summer with a promotion they’re calling National Concert Week. Those include shows with such artists as Arcade Fire, Beck, Dead & Company, Paramore, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bon Jovi, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer/Pixies, Dwight Yoakam/Lucinda Williams, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers, Alan Jackson, Bush/Stone Temple Pilots/The Cult, Counting Crows/Live, and lots more.

Plus: Belle & Sebastian, Matt & Kim, Pantha Du Prince, Porches, Minus the Bear, Pale Waves, Ben Harper, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

We are one week from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As you know. Everyone knows. Despite director J.J. Abrams managing to keep most of the plot details a secret (pretty amazing in this day and age), that hasn’t stopped anyone from covering it constantly…

“Country for people who don’t like country” is having a moment. Country artists like Sturgill Simpson, Kacey Musgraves, ex-Drive By Trucker Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton are putting out interesting, critically-acclaimed records that are being talked about and listened to by country fans, indie rock and music snob crowds alike…

as you can imagine, shit is just fkd up right now. but i wanna say thank you to all our friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support…

Action Bronson said in an interview that he would be playing Rachael Ray’s SXSW party at Stubb’s this year. That lineup is now out, and Action isn’t on it, which is probably a better look for him anyway considering who is (Spank Rock doesn’t seem to mind though, and I guess Jimmy Cliff is also on the billl…

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“Pop singer Gavin DeGraw was viciously beaten by a pack of thugs on the Lower East Side early yesterday — and then hit by a taxi as he stumbled off, police sources said…