Brooklyn Vegan — A$AP Ferg at Knockdown Center in May (more by Gretchen Robinette) A$AP Ferg has a few dates coming up, including Bonnaroo, NXNE, Capitol Hill Block Party, the New Orleans stop of Mad Decent Block Party, and a just-announced FREE NYC... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Flogging Molly in Chicago in 2012 (more by James Richards IV) The concert cruises just keep on... cruisin'. Like Weezer, Motorhead, Mad Decent and Holy Ship, Celtic punks Flogging Molly will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in 2014 with the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Failure shows at Irving Plaza & Stone Pony go on sale today at 10 AM. Their MHOW show (same link) goes on sale at noon. Tickets for the Lily Allen show at Highline Ballroom go on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Failure show at MHOW go on AmEx presale today at noon. You can also still get tickets to their Irving Plaza/Stone Pony shows (same link) with the BrooklynVegan presale password: "COMFORT". Tickets for the Mad Decent... more info

Stereogum — Here’s at least one more of Outkast’s 40 festival appearances this year. The newly expanded traveling Mad Decent Block Party features different lineups on different dates, and the Denver stop will be headlined by none other than Big Boi and Andre... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dillon Francis at Mad Decent Block Party 2013 (more by Dylan Johnson) The dates and venues were recently announced for the 2014 Mad Decent Block Parties, and now the lineups have been announced. Artists playing include Outkast (lucky Denver!), Action... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mad Decent Block Party NYC 2013 (more by Dylan Johnson) The Mad Decent Block Parties return to over 20 North American cities this summer. The NYC stop happens on August 9, and unlike last year's in Williamsburg Park, this time... more info

MTV.com News — With Just Like You, Liz blurs boundaries and worships Britney and Beyoncé. By James Montgomery more info

Nialler9 — I haven’t been keeping too close of attention on Mad Decent’s output of late but what I’ve heard from Major Lazer and some other bits and pieces sounds like a full-on assault. So it’s nice to hear something a little less relentless in the fo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Major Lazer at Mad Decent Block Party 2013 in NYC (more by Dylan Johnson) Mostly-electronic label Mad Decent already do their block parties each year. And now, following in the footsteps of Holy Ship (which announced its plans to now... more info