Category: Festivals

The House of Love to headline UK's Indie Daze festival with Creation Records-era set

The House of Love to headline UK’s Indie Daze festival with Creation Records-era set

Billed as “the kind of event you wish had happened years ago,” the fourth installment of London’s Indie Daze festival will feature The House of Love, Voice of the Beehive and Apollo 440, as well as Crazyhead, The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls and Thousand Yard Stare.

LIVE: Watch New Order's performance at the first weekend of the Coachella festival

LIVE: Watch New Order’s performance at the first weekend of the Coachella festival

New Order’s set from the closing night of the first weekend of the Coachella festival is streaming right now (10:40 p.m. Pacific) on the fest’s YouTube channel. Check out the full performance below. (And if you tune in late, you can scroll backward on the YouTube player and watch from the beginning.)

Coachella turned down Kate Bush? Singer's rep: 'No discussions' to play festival

Coachella turned down Kate Bush? Singer’s rep: ‘No discussions’ to play festival

A representative for Kate Bush this morning is shooting down a widely publicized anecdote in The New Yorker that alleges the Coachella festival turned down a chance to host the stage-shy singer’s first-ever U.S. concert because “no one is going to understand it.”

Coachella reportedly passed on Kate Bush because 'no one is going to understand it'

Coachella reportedly passed on Kate Bush because ‘no one is going to understand it’

The New Yorker today published a fascinating profile of Coachella mastermind Paul Tollett that gets into the nuts and bolts of how the massive festival is operated. No detail, though, seems to have caught as much attention as the allegation the festival turned down a chance to host the first-ever U.S. performance by Kate Bush.

Front 242, KMFDM, Stabbing Westward, ohGr, Severed Heads playing Cold Waves festival

Front 242, KMFDM, Stabbing Westward, ohGr, Severed Heads playing Cold Waves festival

The Cold Waves festival — billed as “a celebration of Chicago’s relationship with industrial music” — returns for a sixth year this fall with a 3-day lineup headlined by Front 242, KMFDM and Stabbing Westward, organizers announced this week. The event is slated for Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1 at Chicago’s Metro and Smart Bar.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe to debut rare solo music as part of Moogfest audiovisual project

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe to debut rare solo music as part of Moogfest audiovisual project

Six years after the breakup of R.E.M., frontman Michael Stipe will debut his first-ever solo composition — a score made using Moog synthesizer gear — as part of an exclusive audiovisual installation he’s creating for Moogfest in Durham, N.C., this May. Tickets for Moogfest are on sale now.