Category: Festivals

Gary Numan announces short U.S. tour: 6 West Coast shows set for late summer

Gary Numan announces short U.S. tour: 6 West Coast shows set for late summer

Gary Numan will return to U.S. shores late this summer for a very short run of concerts on the West Coast, performing at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in late August and, while he’s here, playing shows in California and Oregon as well. The tour opens Aug. 28 in Sacramento.

My Bloody Valentine to headline FYF Fest in L.A. — first U.S. show since 2009

My Bloody Valentine to headline FYF Fest in L.A. — first U.S. show since 2009

My Bloody Valentine will return to the U.S. for the first time since 2009 when the band co-headlines, along with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the 2013 installment of FYF Fest in Los Angeles this August, organizers announced this week. The festival is set for Aug. 24-25 in L.A. State Historic Park.

New Order to release ‘Live at Bestival 2012’ charity album this summer

New Order to release ‘Live at Bestival 2012’ charity album this summer

New Order will mark its highly successful reunion with the release this summer of a new 13-track live album recorded at the U.K.’s Bestival last September, according to the NME. Live at Bestival 2012 will be released July 8 in the U.K. via CD and download, with all profits going to the Isle of Wight Youth Trust.

Depeche Mode joins The Cure as Austin City Limits Music Festival headliners

Depeche Mode joins The Cure as Austin City Limits Music Festival headliners

The rumors were true: Depeche Mode will join their contemporaries in The Cure as headliners at this October’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, according to the official lineup revealed tonight. The festival also will feature appearances by Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace, Muse and Wilco.

The Cure playing two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival in October

The Cure playing two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival in October

This year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival won’t officially announce its lineup until May 7, but the event’s organizers are cleverly planting clues around Austin in newspaper ads, plastic cups, T-shirts and even bottle caps. And it’s the latter that, by all appearances, confirms The Cure will play the Texas festival.

Loop reunites to co-headline All Tomorrow’s Parties ‘End of an Era’ with Television

Loop reunites to co-headline All Tomorrow’s Parties ‘End of an Era’ with Television

The annual All Tomorrow’s Parties holiday festival in Camber Sands, England, will come to an end later this year with one final two-weekend extravaganza, with the first weekend headlined by Television performing Marquee Moon in full and the second weekend both curated and headlined by the reunited Loop.

Video: Dinosaur Jr at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Video: Dinosaur Jr at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Dinosaur Jr used its slot on Sunday during the closing day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival’s first weekend to tear through a 10-song, 45-minute set, hitting early fan faves, highlights of the band’s Barlow-less ’90s output and a nugget from pre-Dino Jr outfit Deep Wound.

Video: Dead Can Dance at Coachella — watch full wind-whipped 55-minute set

Video: Dead Can Dance at Coachella — watch full wind-whipped 55-minute set

The reunited Dead Can Dance was one of the last acts to perform on Sunday night to close the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, performing an 11 p.m. set in what seemed like a windstorm. If you missed the official webcast, you can now watch the full 55-minute performance.

Video: Billy Bragg plays live on KEXP during SXSW — watch full 30-minute set

Video: Billy Bragg plays live on KEXP during SXSW — watch full 30-minute set

Seattle’s KEXP continues to post video footage of sets by bands that played live on the air for the radio station during South By Southwest last month, and the latest is a six-song, 33-minute set by Billy Bragg, who treated fans to four songs off his just released album Tooth & Nail, plus two old favorites.

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Nick Cave is pulling double-duty at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, performing both with this on-hiatus band Grinderman and his long-running crew The Bad Seeds. While the full Grinderman webcast from Friday night has yet to surface, Sunday night’s thrilling Bad Seeds performance has

Video: New Order play ‘Perfect Kiss,’ ‘Crystal’ at Coachella — via official webcast

Video: New Order play ‘Perfect Kiss,’ ‘Crystal’ at Coachella — via official webcast

As we wait for a capture of the full webcast of New Order’s Saturday night set at Coachella to surface — hint, hint — we can offer a couple clips from the official broadcast as a way to tide fans over: the frog-assisted “Perfect Kiss,” posted above and courtesy the festival itself, as well as latter-day rocker “Crystal.”

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Social Distortion epitomize Southern California, so it’s good to see Mike Ness and Co. bring their pure rock to Coachella this weekend. You can now watch the band’s full 40-minute set — which closes, naturally, with run through Johnny Cash’s classic “Ring of Fire” — right here via this ripped-from-the-webcast footage.

Video: Trent Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Video: Trent Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Trent Reznor’s reunited Nine Inch Nails will be filling festival bills around the world later this summer, but Coachella snagged what may end up being a rare appearance by his new band, How to Destroy Angels, which brought an impressive visual component to its set late Friday night.