Live Daily — The Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, AL, has confirmed several acts for its inaugural year including Trey Anastasio and TAB, Zac Brown Band, John Legend, Ray LaMontagne, Ben Harper and Relentless7, The Flaming Lips and Alison Kra... more info

Here Comes The Flood — The Black Crowes, Gov't Mule, North Mississippi Allstars and Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB are among the confiormed artist for the first edition of The Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival. Further notable acts: The Flaming Lips, Funky Meters R... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Last week I introduced you to a fantastic new band from Savanah, Georgia known as Sunglasses. The dynamic duo comprised of 8000 bam bam (Samuel Cooper) and Baby Seal (Brady Keehn) busted into my inbox with the great song "Whiplash", complete with an... more info

MTV.com News — The two up-and-comers have been added to the lineup of New Jersey's two-day fest in May.By Jocelyn Vena Ke$ha Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Ke$ha and Drake are the latest artists added to the lineup for Bamboozle this spring at New Jersey'... more info

Altsounds — To celebrate the end of the decade and New Year’s Eve, *Girl Talk* threw one of the largest and craziest house parties the world has seen last week in Chicago. As an incredible *surprise to the entire 4500-capacity audience* at the Congress ... more info

411 Mania — From his review of Girl Talk's New Years Eve Bash in Chicago to the Soundgarden reunion, new Nine Inch Nails music, Bow Wow drunk-driving and Tweeting about it, Congress honoring Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, and Elton John helping Eminem with ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Graeme Flegenheimer Who needs a traditional ball drop when countless rolls of toilet paper are unfurled into the crowd? Continuous streams of white tissue were one of the festive components that helped Girl Talk ring in the New... more info

MTV.com News — Gaga's Miami show is one of the hottest bills in the country.By Gil Kaufman Lady Gaga Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage It's fitting that MTV's Woman of the Year is going to cap off a tremendous 2009 by playing one of the most anticipated New Y... more info

Stereogum — There could not have been a more apt ID3 than that of Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke Of Genius," the MP3 that launched this decade's most fitting musical legacy. Parts of two or three or thirty tracks mixed into one supersong? What better than mashup... more info

Rolling Stone — Mark your calendars: the dates for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, have been confirmed. An announcement on the fest’s lineup is still being sorted out, but Coachella will be going down April 16th-18th. A... more info