Live Daily — For the first time in 20 years, Revolting Cocks [ tickets ]--also known as RevCo are headlining their own tour. The group is about halfway through its itinerary in support of "Sex-O Olympic-O," its fifth studio album. Along with Al Jourgensen (gui... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Fever Ray, Os Mutantes, Butthole Surfers, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Jay Reatard, Macachu & The Shapes, Clues, Slim Twig, Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, Sam Shalabi's Egyptian Light Orchestra, Japandroids, The Do , ... more info

Said the Gramophone — Starting this Wednesday is Pop Montreal, one of the finest music & arts festivals in all the world, at least if you like the things we do. It is wild and woolly, joyously diverse, deep and wide and rich and poor and set in the heart of this great c... more info

Rock Sellout —     What’s In a Name? The overwhelmingly common course of action taken when naming your band is to make an attempt to capture the essence of your band’s music, your heroes or your politics, whether or not this attempt is made tongue in cheek or... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Black Lips @ The Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Bao Nguyen) Deborah Kee Higgins (ATP organizer) to the Village Voice: We have a "No Assholes" policy. You can play once because we don't know you're an asshole, but you can't play... more info

Live Daily — Riot Fest [ tickets ] West--scheduled to take place in Los Angeles Nov. 12-14--has been postponed to Spring 2010 due to founder Riot Mike's failing health, according to a press release. The Riot Fest organizer was recently advised by doctors to take ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Future Islands @ the 1896 in January (more by Lori Baily) This Saturday (August 29th) Impose Magazine is hosting "Party with Tables," a day-show benefit for 826NYC at the Brooklyn Yard. The diverse lineup includes Screaming Female... more info

Rolling Stone — AFI embark on a jaunt in support of their September 29th new album Crash Love, the original lineup of the Butthole Surfers reunite for a trek featuring shows with the Melvins, Built to Spill and Peaches, and Dead Man’s Bones, the duo featuring acto... more info

Live Daily — The Butthole Surfers [ tickets ] have reunited their '80s-era lineup--Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor--for a September/October tour that will culminate in a pair of Halloween shows in Texas that will also feature ... more info

NME — They join Dinosaur Jr and Butthole Surfers at fall festival more info