Vacationer

This edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' takes a look at ten times where a classic pop punk band ditched the youthful sounds that made them famous and released a ”mature” album.

SXSW has just announced another 100 or so additions to their lineup, including Andrew Bird, De La Soul, Open Mike Eagle, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Charly Bliss, Rico Nasty, Tierra Whack, Lonnie Holley, Maliibu Miitch, Andrew WK, Har Mar Superstar, and more.

Anthony Green's favorites of the year include Turnstile, Deafheaven, Foxing, boygenius, J Cole, Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Soccer Mommy, Freeway, Gouge Away, Nothing, and more.

You may remember that when Firefly Music Fest announced its 2015 lineup, the first headliner was blurred out on the poster. Well, as rumored, it's Paul McCartney, the fest revealed today...

Delaware's annual Firefly Music Festival comes back June 18-21 and the lineup's now been released. Kings of Leon, The Killers and a TBA third act rumored to be Paul McCartney (update: it's Paul) sit atop the list, with Morrissey, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Run The Jewels, How To Dress Well, Snoop Dogg, Tycho, Sturgill Simpson, Sylvan Esso, Zola Jesus, Rustie, Le1f and many more joining them on the list of performers...

The Downtown Music Festival is back, and will stage events in five cities this year. The dates and locations are:Downtown Cleveland - September 19 & 20 Downtown Minneapolis - September 26 & 27 Downtown New York - October 2-4 Downtown Los Angeles - November 7 & 8 Downtown Houston - November 14 & 15Lineups are mostly still TBA, but NYC, as you can see in the flyer above, will feature rising 90s throwback pop star Kiesza along with Animal Collective sideproject Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's Atlas Sound, Autre Ne Veut, Tobacco, Jungle, Vacationer, IAMSU...

As previously mentioned, Jay Z is throwing his Budweiser Made In America Festival in Philly and LA this year, simultaneously on August 30-31...

Caveman at Webster Hall in April (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Indie-pop band Caveman, who just did a run of shows at CMJ, are at at the Iceland Airwaves Festival this week and will then tour Europe...

Squarepusher is coming to the NYC-area for Camp Bisco, which goes down this year from July 11 to 13 at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, NY with Passion Pit, Animal Collective, Toro y Moi, El-P & Killer Mike, Baauer, Ryan Hemsworth, Dan Deacon, Danny Brown, and more...

Passion Pit at MSG earlier this month (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Camp Bisco is known for a long history of booking jam bands and dance music, but has branched out in recent years...