of Montreal, Blitzen Trapper, Built to Spill to Play Treefort Music Festival

of Montreal, Blitzen Trapper, Built to Spill to Play Treefort Music Festival

Treefort started a an idea to help find a way to bridge the gap of quality cities to play between the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest for touring bands. It’s also a way to introduce the nation’s music community to the landmark venues in the budding music community. The festival will implement four established venues as well as a main stage built in a parking lot in the vibrant downtown area of the city.  read more

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Grizzly Bear Named As Headliner For End of the Road Festival

Grizzly Bear Named As Headliner For End of the Road Festival

England’s End of the Road Festival has announced Grizzly Bear as the 2012 headliner. The festival, which takes place Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2012, has announced England-based Tinkersticks as the co-headliner.  read more

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Radiohead Adds Another Festival to European Tour

Radiohead Adds Another Festival to European Tour

Radiohead has added an additional date to their European tour that they announced in November. The King of Limbs rockers will headline the Bilbao BBK Festival in Spain.  read more

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Watch the First 10 Minutes of Sigur Rós' Inni

Watch the First 10 Minutes of Sigur Rós' <i>Inni</i>

As previously reported, Sigur Rós has a new film and live album due out in the U.S. this week. You can now watch the first 10 minutes of that film through the band’s Facebook page.   read more

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Three Days In Asheville: Moogfest 2011 Recap

Three Days In Asheville: Moogfest 2011 Recap

This is the tale of three days in Asheville, N.C. Welcome to Moogfest 2011.  read more

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Music Midtown 2011 Recap

Music Midtown 2011 Recap

After a six year hiatus, Atlanta’s Music Midtown returned with Coldplay, The Black Keys and others performing during the one-day event.  read more

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Polyvinyl Celebrates 15 Years with Concert, Sampler

Polyvinyl Celebrates 15 Years with Concert, Sampler

From their humble beginnings as a fan-zine, Polyvinyl Record Company has always kept their DIY mentality. Matt Lunsford and Darcie Knight started the project while they were still in high school as a way to talk about bands that they loved in the Champaign-Urbana, Ill. area.  read more

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SoundLand Festival Announces Lineup

SoundLand Festival Announces Lineup

In the Next Big Nashville SouthLand festival’s sixth year, the festival has changed its name to the simpler SouthLand and the four day festival has unleashed its gigantic line-up of great signed and unsigned acts that will seemingly make it one of the festival’s best.  read more

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New York Film Festival Lineup Revealed

New York Film Festival Lineup Revealed

The New York Film Festival has announced their main line up. Almost 30 films have been slated, including Alexander Payne’s The Descendants starring George Clooney as the closing film for the festival, which runs from September 30 through October 16. While there will be films that have shown at Sundance and Cannes, the festival will host a slew of premieres.   read more

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Lollapalooza 2011 Day One Recap

Lollapalooza 2011 Day One Recap

Expansion seems to be the name of the game in the case of Lollapalooza. But is bigger necessarily better? It seems so, if Friday’s sets are any indication.  read more

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