Category: Festivals

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