[News] Governors Ball 2012 Lineup Announced: Beck, Passion Pit, Chromeo, And More

Earlier today the lineup for the second annual Governors Ball in New York City was announced. While last year's festival took place on Governors Island in New York City, this time around the festival has expanded to two days instead of one and will be held in Randall's Island Park. The lineup packs quite a wallop, including Beck, Passion Pit, Duck Sauce, Chromeo, Major Lazer, Santigold, Turf War, and more. For you fellow Beck fans out there, yes, this is his first time back into the city since 2008, so I am about to explode out of my seat in excitement right now.

In addition to the stellar lineup, the festival will also feature unique art installations from local and international artists, highly regarded NYC food trucks packed with killer food, and other fun activities to do while at the fest that will be announced in the weeks to come.

A select number of pre-sale tickets will go on sale at 5am EST tomorrow, Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 via Living Social. There will be a direct pre-sale link available on the GovBall.com site. General On Sale will begin on Friday, February 24th at 10am EST via GovBall.com.

For more information about the festival, make sure you head over to GovBall.com.

Check out all the confirmed artists in the lineup after the jump!

2012 Governors Ball Music Festival Confirmed Artists:
 
Saturday, June 23rd
Passion Pit (First NYC show in 2 years)
Duck Sauce (feat. A-Trak and Armand Van Helden)
Chromeo
Special Disco Version (James Murphy and Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem)
Atmosphere
Major Lazer
Santigold
Big Gigantic
Penguin Prison
Walk the Moon
Art vs Science
K.Flay
Nobody Beats the Drum
 
Sunday, June 24th
Beck (First NYC show since 2008)
Modest Mouse
Explosions in the Sky
Devendra Banhart
Cage the Elephant
Built to Spill
Cults
Phantogram
Freelance Whales
Alberta Cross
The Jezabels
Turf War

[News] Reading & Leeds Festival Line-up Coming on March 12th

So, with the Festival season drawing ever nearer the announcements have been every week recently! UK festivals have some big boots to fill too as Glastonbury takes a break, but on March 12th those could very well be filled as Reading & Leeds Festival will make their announcement via Festival Republic. Rumours are rife of Foo Fighters and Kasabian being headliners on the main stage while personally I'd like to see The Black Keys on the bill of a UK festival. Maybe they'll headline the NME stage?

Time will tell but the festival has also announced a new payment plan in which you can pay in 2 or 4 installments. More details over on the official sites. Watch this space as I think this year's line up will be pretty solid. Last year was pretty good but this year with the big daddy Glasto sleeping, headliners should be BIG.

[News] Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup Announced

After a fantastic 10th year for Bonnaroo 2011, the festival is back for year number 11 and ready to rock your face off from June 7-10, 2012. This year's festival lineup is packed to the brim with a ton eclectic artists including: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, The Shins, The Avett Brothers, Skrillex, Aziz Ansari, Childish Gambino, Alice Cooper, Fiest, Black Star, tUnE-yArDs, Bad Brains and more. Additionally, The Beach Boys will be performing as part of their 50th Anniversary Tour. The final lineup for Bonnaroo will total over 125 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages during the four-day fest. So far they've released a nice chunk of the lineup, but we can excpect more to be revealed over the coming weeks.

Tickets for the festival go on sale this Saturday, February 18th at 12pm EST over on Bonnaroo.com.

You can watch ESPN's John Anderson announce the lineup below and peep the full list of the first chunk of the lineup after the jump.

2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Confirmed Artists:
 
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
The Beach Boys Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David
Marks
Bon Iver
The Avett Brothers
The Shins
Foster The People
Skrillex
Aziz Ansari
Dispatch
Feist
The Roots
Alice Cooper
SuperJam
Black Star
The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars
Ludacris
Ben Folds Five
Flogging Molly
Spectrum Road featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid
Mac Miller
Childish Gambino
Major Lazer
tUnE-yArDs
Afrocubism
Flying Lotus
Umphrey's McGee
Little Dragon
St. Vincent
City and Colour
The Civil Wars
Young The Giant
Two Door Cinema Club
Punch Brothers
NEEDTOBREATHE
Fitz & The Tantrums
Bad Brains
Yelawolf
Dawes
Battles
Danny Brown
The Black Lips
SBTRKT
Phantogram
Kendrick Lamar
Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires
The Kooks
The Joy Formidable
The Antlers
Kathleen Edwards
Mimosa
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Alabama Shakes
Das Racist
Delta Spirit
Gary Clark Jr.
Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
Laura Marling
Trampled by Turtles
Mogwai
The War On Drugs
Ben Howard
Grouplove
Blind Pilot
ALO
The Devil Makes Three
White Denim
EMA
Here We Go Magic
K-Flay
The Lonely Forest
Mariachi El Bronx
Big Freedia
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
The Soul Rebels
Kvelertak
SOJA
Steven Bernstein's MTO Allstars Plays Sly
Big Gigantic
Sarah Jarosz
Orgone
Darondo
Fruit Bats
Moon Taxi
 
More artists to be announced soon.

[News] Sigur Rós Announce Live Return at Bestival, UK

Bestival takes place on the Isle of Wight a little late in the Festival season on September 6th to 9th and with the line-up announcement came one very, very nice surprise. Sigur Rós. The band haven't performed live since 2008 and with the announcement the band took to their official website and added;  "we'll be announcing more tour dates soon."

Along with Sigur Rós other bands on the bill include The xx, Warpaint, Justice, De La Soul, Major Lazer, Orbital, Little Dragon, Four Tet, Caribou and a load more. For the full line-up jump on over to the very cool looking website here.

[News] Parklife Weekender Manchester Announced. Flaming Lips, Justice, Crystal Castles and Many More Playing

Every year, Platt Fields Park in Manchester is turned into Festival Central with the Parklife Weekender playing host to some of the worlds top musical talent and the initial line-up has just been announced and boy is it going to be a fun weekend! Taking place on the weekend of June 9th-10th, Wayne Coyne will bring The Flaming Lips gang to headline the Festival along with Dizzee Rascal. Other acts announced include Justice, Crystal Castles, Noah and the Whale, TEED, Azealia Banks, The Rapture, Nero, Fake Blood, High Contrast, Gold Panda, Friends, Araabmuzik, Labrinth. (See the screen grab at the top for more!)

All in all the line-up just made me jump out of my seat and if you're in Manchester for it I'll see you there. For the full and insanely good lineup jump on over to the official website. 

[News] Metallica Announces Orion Music Festival On June 23-24 In Atlantic City

Earlier today Metallica announced that they are launching a two-day festival in Atlantic City,NJ called Orion Music Festival. The festival will take place on June 23 - 24 2012 with the band headlining both nights of the event. The band also revealed that they will perform The Black Album in its entirety during one of the two nights. Tickets for fan club members go on sale tomorrow (2/8) at 10am ET and tickets for the general public go on sale on Saturday (2/11) at 11am ET.

Other artists included in the lineup for the two-day event include: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Liturgy. There will also be a lifestyle element included in the festival that will showcase each member of Metallica's interests - allowing fan to interact directly with each of the band members.

More details about the event are expected to unfold in the coming months. For more information head over to http://orionmusicandmore.com.

[News] Primavera Sound Announces Complete 2012 Line-up

Festivals overseas this year seem pretty solid in my books. All have very nice headliners with bands of varying genres and popularity throughout their bills. Primavera Sound can now be added to the dream list as it has unveiled its complete 2012 lie-up (see image above). Added to the already announced acts like Bjork, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, The XX, Wilco, Beach House etc the addition of Refused has been made, The Rapture will play along with Sharon Van Etten. Trash Talk will crack some skulls whilst hopefully Wavves won't lose his as he did back in '09. A cracking lineup for what is sure to be a killer weekend. Peep the entire list of artists on the simple yet ever so effective poster at the top. Droooool.

Primavera takes place at the end of May/beginning of June in Barcelona. Pack your sun lotion! More information over on the official site. (Google Translate is yoru friend, unless you speak Spanish)

[News] Live At Leeds Announces Line-up: Marina, Los Campesinos!, The Subways & Ladyhawke to play

Live At Leeds has just been announced to take place in, you've guessed it, Leeds, Yorkshire between the 4th of May and 6th of May at 9 venues across the city totalling 11 stages in total! The lineup includes Example who will play an event at the Millennium Square supported by Wretch 32 whilst other bands playing the city include Marina and the Diamonds, Spector, Los Campensinos!, Ladyhawke, Reverend And The Makers , The Subways, Dot Rotten and a load more. Full list after the jump. For more info jump over to the official website here.

Marina and the Diamonds, Los Campesinos!, The Subways, Ladyhawke, Example, Wretch 32, Dot Rotten, Friends, Howler, I Like Trains, Jamie N Commons, Lianne La Havas, Niki & the Dove, Ren Harvieu, Reverend and the Makers, Spector, Adult Jazz, Alt-J, Aluna George, Another’s Blood, Binary, Charli XCX, Citizens!, Dan Mangan, Fanzine, Grass House, Gross Magic, Hannah Trigwell, Holy State, Hunting Bears, Jake Bugg, Jessie Ware, Joseph & David, Just Handshakes We’re British, Moody Gowns, Novella, Random Impulse, Redwire, Royal Republic, Sam Airey, SCUM, Soul Circus, The History of Apple Pie, This Many Boyfriends, TOY, Turbowolf