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Cloud Nothings, Pains of Being Pure at Heart and War on Drugs are among the bands who will participate in the first CBGB music festival this summer, organizers said on Tuesday.

The initial lineup has been announced for the CBGB Festival, set to take place July 5-8 at over 30 venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In addition to film premieres and screenings, the festival will host over 300 emerging artists including Guided By Voices, Pains Of Being Pure at Heart, Cloud Nothings...

Japandroids  and  Chromatics  have been added to  Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 , which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes  Beach House ,  Vampire Weekend ,  Feist ,  Godspeed You! Black Emperor ,  Hot Chip ,  Sleigh Bells ,  Dirty Projectors ,  Flying Lotus ,  AraabMUZIK ,  A$AP Rocky  and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14. In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased!  Individual day tickets  are on sale now right  here , but hurry, because they're ...

The lo-fi Cleveland quartet take their European tour to Stockholm with a headline show at Fotografiska. Photos provided by Victor Lundmark.

The lo-fi Cleveland quartet take their European tour to Stockholm with a headline show at Fotografiska. Photos provided by Victor Lundmark.

Rock band Girls Names out of Ireland have released a new single off their upcoming split 7'' with Weird Dreams titled 'A Troubled See'. The single has some definite surf-rock influences going on in it and it brings upon a more downbeat version of The Drums in my opinion. You can listen to the track below and the 7'' single with Weird Dreams will be released on June 25th on Tough Love Records. May 22nd - Night and Day, Manchester 23rd - The Waiting Room, London 24th - The Green Door Store, Brighton 26th - Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht w/ Weird Dreams 27th ...

As part of an "Ask Me Anything" series on Reddit, the black hole from which your soul may never return, Steve Albini entertained questions about working with Nirvana, Jazz, what Joanna Newsom smells like, and much much more. Naturally, some of the most valuable advice from the highly acclaimed producer was about engineering itself. When asked if he really did play Scrabble while recording the fantastic new Cloud Nothings record, this was his response: "When I first started making records I w

Dot to Dot Festival has not only announced its latest additions to its already amazing lineup, but has also teamed up with The 405 to give you the chance to win a pair of tickets to the city of your choice. Taking place over the upcoming Jubilee weekend (2nd-4th June) in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester, Dot to Dot brings you all the hottest acts and buzz bands around right now and delivers them to you in all the best venues across those towns. So, how would you like the chance to see the likes of Cloud Nothings, Friends, The Internet ...

I aften spiller det amerikanske støjrockband på VoxHall. Vi har fanget frontmand Dylan Baldi på landevejen.

photos by Kellyann Petry Warship">Idle Warship at Shock">Culture Shock 4/28/12 The 20th annual Shock">Culture Shock festival went down at SUNY Puchase from April 27-28. Day 1 (4/27) kicked off with the Stooges-meets-Jesus Lizard punk of Pissed Jeans, followed by California...

The 405 team was out in force for The Great Escape this year, so rather than bringing you a band-by-band account of our time in Brighton, our editors/writers have chosen their five favourite bands from the event. Who came out on top? Read on to find out... Photos by Tim Boddy James Canham Swords">Forest Swords - Tim and myself arrived partway through Swords">Forest Swords set (they started at the same time AlunaGeorge finished) to a stunned and mostly silent crowd. The two of them on stage (one at the mic, laptop and electronics and another on the bass ...

Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless When an album hits the hype cycle and an artist is suddenly everyone’s SXSW pick and everyone’s  band of the moment, sometimes I can’t even listen to it. I’ll admit that I steered clear of the new Cloud Nothings album because the swells of praise were too loud.  Well, that was a mistake. This is probably the best album of the year so far. Perfect pop punk that invokes both the Strokes and Minor Threat. You wouldn’t be wrong to call them brethren in arms with Japandroids and Fucked Up.  Attack ...

WHAT: The touring day-long multi-venue festival takes on/over Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester WHY: Every year they could just book whoever major labels throw at them, but instead there's always more than a sprinkling of fascinating, usually American names WHEN: 2nd-4th June WHERE: 2nd: Bristol O2 Academy, Thekla, Louisiana, Trinity, Fleece and Start The Bus 3rd: Nottingham Rock City, Rescue Rooms, Stealth, Bodega and Jongleurs 4th: Manchester Ritz, Deaf Institute, Academy and Sound Control HOW: £20 WHO: Islet, Summer Camp, Willis Earl Beal, Friends (Nottingham only), Wavves, Pulled Apart By Horses, Beth Jeans Houghton (Bristol), Clock Opera, Hooray For ...

Last weekend was my grandmother’s Celebration of Life. It would have been her 92nd birthday. We all had margaritas (it was also Cinco de Mayo; I had three) and told funny stories about her life. It was a blast, a good closure and celebration to a woman who meant a lot to a lot of people. Upon returning on Monday, I took a trip out to Anacortes and The Business, picking up the new Cloud Nothings LP, Attack On Memory, which served as inspiration for tonight’s show. The ...