Set Your Goals suited and booted Slam Dunk festival. See the band this weekend alongside The Blackout, Motion City Soundtrack, Mayday Parade and more!

Step on Dem by the mighty Urban Knights featuring the heavy rhymes of Blackout JA

For those of you out there looking for something a bit different than the rock-heavy festivals this summer, look no further than the hip-hop-centric Rock The Bells series. Now in its ninth year, the traveling tour is currently scheduled to hit three cities – with multi-night stands at the NOS Events Center in San Bernadino, Calif. (8/18 – 19), the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif. (8/25 – 26) and the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey (9/1 -2). This year’s fest will hosted by RZA and will feature a diverse selection of old and new school ...

blink-182 have added to intimate dates in July to their UK tour. Check out the full routing including the new dates below by clicking “Read More.” Related Stories: Tom DeLonge Diagnosed With Pneumonia; Shows Canceled Angels & Airwaves Cancel Tour Dates; Tom DeLonge Severely Sick blink-182 Cancel All North American Dates   Angels & Airwaves To Become More Active In 2013 June 7th Birmingham NIA* 8th London O2 Arena* 9th London O2 Arena^ 12th Dublin O2 Arena* 13th Belfast Odyssey Arena* 15th Manchester MEN Arena^ 16th Birmingham LG Arena^ 17th Sheffield Motorpoint Arena^ 19th Newcastle Metro Radio Arena^ 20th Glasgow SECC^ July 7th Bournemouth BIC> 10th Cardiff ...

INT. BROOKLYN APARTMENT Empty mugs, books, beer bottles, and cassette tapes cover the coffee table. Polaroids cover one wall. A denim jacket hangs from the doorknob. SAM and ZAK are best friends. They are also members of a dream-noise-punk band called Beach University. They sit on a floral sofa that SAM found at a yard sale, where she also purchased a few Neil Young albums and set of tea cups. They are watching Twin Peaks. SAM has her laptop open, because she has already seen both seasons four times. She squints through her round, oversized glasses. SAM What the shit ...

WHAT:  HoZac Blackout Fest WHEN: May 18-20 WHERE: Chicago, IL WHO:  Roky Erickson, Redd Kross, Davila 666, Human Eye, Bare Mutants, Rayon Beach, Fungi Girls, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Ketamines, White Mystery WHAT:  Electric Daisy Carnival New York WHEN: May 18-20 WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ WHO:  Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buuren, Tinie Tempah, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Richie Hawtin, Borgore, Art Department WHAT:  London Calling Fest WHEN: May 18-19 WHERE: Amsterdam, Netherlands WHO:  Grimes, Japandroids, Austra, King Krule, Willis Earl Beal, Porcelain Raft, Au Palais, Spector, Outfit, Trust, Evian Christ WHAT:  Piknic WHEN: May 20-September 30 (Sundays) WHERE:  Parc Jean-Drapeau ...

A collection of 4AD  music and artwork is being auctioned on eBay  to raise money for  Natasha Laflin , a British artist and illustrator who suffered a near fatal bain aneurysm in 2008. Funds will go towards helping Laflin move from a care-home back in with her family. Read more about her life here . The auction items include a Grimes cassette single, a test-pressing of the reissue of Dead Can Dance's 1988 record  The Serpent's Egg , a 2009 Japanese label sampler CD featuring selections curated by various 4AD artists, a vinyl compilation of 4AD Session performances, and a book ...

Welcome to the first ever *Three for Thursday*, the fourth instalment in a weekly collection of articles designed to thrust some particularly awesome music your way. To start us off, I thought I'd stay true to us *Brits* and head over to *Wales* for the delights of the ravenous *The Blackout*....

Slam Dunk will be kicking off in the UK next weekend. Check out the set times for the Slam Dunk North and South Festivals below by clicking “Read More!” SLAM DUNK NORTH – LEEDS UNI SATURDAY 26TH MAY ATTICUS / JAGERMEISTER STAGE Taking Back Sunday 09:15 10:30 The Blackout 08:05 08:50 Funeral For A Friend 06:55 07:40 Motion City Soundtrack 05:45 06:30 Say Anything 04:35 05:20 Lower Than Atlantis 03:40 04:10 Straight Lines 02:45 03:15 HONOUR OVER GLORY STAGE Architects 09:50 10:45 Every Time I Die ...

Touring U.S. rap festival Rock the Bells has announced its 2012 lineup, featuring a typically broad swatch of performers including the reunited Dipset, A$AP Rocky, Atmosphere, Black Hippy crew stars (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q), Yelawolf, the reunited Hit Squad (EPMD, Redman, Das EFX, K-Solo, Keith Murray, DJ Scratch), chart-toppers (Kid Cudi, Wiz Khalifa, J Cole, Mac Miller, Lupe Fiasco, more) and more elder statesmen/women (Nas, E-40, DJ Quik, Too $hort, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Prodigy, Salt-n-Pepa, RZA). Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will perform their album E. 1999 Eternal in full, while Method Man and Redman will play Blackout ...

Just as they always do, Guerilla Union brings out the big guns with their annual Rock the Bells festival. Bone Thugs performing E. 1999 Eternal? Red and Meth performing Blackout? Yeah, I’m already sold. Full lineup is listed on the flyer up top.

Ben (left) & James (right) If you're at all interested or familiar with the continually popular domestic dance scene today, you know who The Knocks are.  The increasingly hyped NYC-based duo of Ben Ruttner & James Patterson have been making their heavy rounds as of late, touching down on both sides of the Atlantic and hitting the festival and club scene, all while managing to churn out quality material for us to eat up. We sat down with the fellas at the Sweetlife Festival a couple weeks back in Columbia, MD for a quick convo.  Follow up with the two's reflections on life as of late, upcoming work, and how they first came up not too long back. _____________________________________________________________________________ You guys have been super busy as of late, tell us about the last couple months. Ben - We’ve been travelling a lot - we were in California for a couple weeks recording in studios and such, and other than that we’ve been hitting spot dates. We did our own little tour from NY down to TX for SXSW - the Neon Gold tour which was us, St Lucia , Savoir Adore , all really fun. From SX we went straight to Ultra, played the main stage there which was pretty sick, and then we were in Miami for all of the Winter Music Conference as well and just hung out. James - And before that we were in London, like right before we did the Neon Gold tour, with DJ Shadow which was fun. Ben  - Yep, after all that, the travelling is chilling out for a little bit - basically after Sweelife we’re going from doing a festival or show every weekend from back at home in the studio consistently. What do you guys like most about the festival scene? James -  I like the fact that the crowd is pretty built-in, so you know you’re going to be reaching new people. And if they like it, the festival response, is way more epic than a regular show. People come to a festival and they’re just amped for whatever they’re gonna hear. Ben  - Yeah the energy is way higher, it’s much happier vibes compared to a NY show or something where everyone is so serious, in scenes like this everyone's just here to have fun. And our music is so much fun, so, it’s hard not to have a blast to it. James - Sometimes shows can be more of a showcase for an artist, A&Rs; can be there or industry people. Not that industry people don’t go to festivals, they definitely do, but I feel like the ratio is more in favor of the music lover than it would be otherwise at a scene like this. You guys mentioned going home soon - being NY - how’d you two come up initially and first link up together... READ MORE Ben  - I grew up in the boonies up in Vermont, James grew up in Connecticut, and we both did music apart originally. I used to make weird trip-hoppy instrumental stuff and he played through ...

Thu May 10 Curator extraordinaire Lawrence English introduces Mono10 and encourages tonight’s very healthy audience to get comfortable for a blackout performance by Sydney-based sound artist Simon Whetham. His exquisitely restrained, digitally rendered composition swells, crests and contracts with sounds from nature and the built environment and is easily the most beautiful set of the evening. Cured Pink are an experimental trio with a sprawling set-up of junkyard constructions and conve ...

Scottish festivals adds eight new acts to its bill

Recommended Show: SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012 NORTH HIGHLANDS @ ACE HOTEL 20 West 29th street New York, NY 10001 FREE, 9:30PM Did someone say free? A show from North Highlands is awesome enough, but a free one? That's even better! Poliça @ Maxwell's Fred Armisen @ Union Pool Beats Antique @ Brooklyn Bowl Rusko & Redlight @ Terminal 5 My Roaring Twenties @ Manhattan Inn Patti Smith & Lucy Wainwright Roche @ City Winery Diane Birch, Rewards, & The Amendments @ Glasslands MV and EE, Steve Gunn, & Herbcraft @ 285 Kent Avenue Chat Logs, Mini Prophets, Spaces, & Teen Demon @ Death By Audio United Waters, Yek Koo, Prehistoric Blackout, & LA ...