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A number of acts have been added to the lineup for year’s Outside Lands Music Festival , set to take place August 10-12 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will appear as his alter ego “The Nightwatchman,” while Brooklyn’s afro beat kings Antibalas, Jukebox the Ghost, Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons, Futurebirds and Infantree will also appear.

Alabama Shakes and Skrillex are among the newer acts joining familiar groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers at summer pop festivals.

In an Advocate cover interview, Okereke sets the record straight, so to speak. read more

The indie hip hop artist has had a relatively quiet five years—his last album was 2007's None Shall Pass 74 —but 2012 is shaping up to be much busier.

“Neck of the Woods” is the third studio album from the Silversun Pickups and the first since 2009’s “Swoon,” which climbed to No. 7 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and delivered the hit “Panic Switch.”

When critics call Silversun Pickups “ ’90s revivalists,” they usually mean the band sounds like Smashing Pumpkins, and they don’t usually mean it as a compliment. The L.A. quartet owns up to its Clinton-era influences on “Neck of the Woods,” but not in any of the ways you’d expect.

Irish math-rock group The Cast Of Cheers have crafted a solid LP, though one with its fair share of flaws.

Popular winter festival On the Bright Side will not return to Perth this year.

Billy Corgan talks Splendour, the new album, Veronicas, Courtney Love, twitter and so much more.

The HARD Summer festival takes place at Los Angeles State Historic Park August 3-4. The lineup includes James Murphy, Bloc Party, AraabMuzik, Danny Brown, John Talabot, Skrillex, A-Trak, Squarepusher, Action Bronson, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio, Little Dragon, Chromeo (DJ set), Lunice, Bootsy Collins & the Funk Unity Band, the Gaslamp Killer, Magnetic Man, Miike Snow ...

This year's HARD Summer festival in downtown Los Angeles grabbed so many talents, its organizers had to add a second date to what has been, for the past four years, a one-day blowout. This time, HARD touches down August 3-4, and invites Skrillex back as a main headliner with Bloc Party and a Miike Snow live set filling out the top slots...