Rollo & Grady — Woodsist Records is throwing a festival at the Echo & Echoplex on Tuesday, June 15. The lineup features Woods, Kurt Vile, Real Estate, Abe Vigoda, the Art Museums, the Mantles, Nodzzz, Sun Araw, All Saints Day (Katy from Vivian Girls + Greg from Cat ... more info

Pitchfork — The uber-cool New York lo-fi label Woodsist is packing up and moving to California for a few days this June, throwing a couple of mini-festivals in L.A. and Big Sur. The Big Sur show goes down June 12 at the Henry Miller Library, and there are sever... more info

Perez Hilton — AMAZING! Yu Pengnian, Chinese real estate mogul, has moved his entire $1.2 billion fortune into his foundation for charity to help poor people in China. He made his final donation of $470 million in cash and property to the charity he has been contri... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Morning Benders @ Emo's in Austin (more by Tim Griffin) tonight in NYC * Real Estate @ PS1 * Narrows @ Cake Shop * Earth Day @ Grand Central * Mike Doughty @ (le) Poisson Rouge * Kings Go Forth... more info

Pitchfork — What: The Great EscapeWhen: May 13-15Where: Brighton, EnglandWho: Broken Social Scene, Wild Beasts, the Big Pink, the Walkmen, These New Puritans, Surfer Blood, Here We Go Magic, Morning Benders, John Talabot, Sleigh Bells, the Fiery Furnaces, Warpai... more info

The Music Fix — All because of that pesky volcano! more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Ducktails, the ambient-pop project of Real Estate member Matt Mondanile, has a new single ready for release. "Mirror Image" 7" will drop May 25 courtesy of SHDWPLY Records (you can pre-order the single here); the title track finds Mondanile working w... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Real Estate have a full schedule of shows coming up in multiple countries throughout April and May. Three of those shows are in NYC in the nest 10 days. Tonight (4/16) they headline Monster Island. On Saturday, April 24th... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I was reading BrooklynVegan, and their post about a potentially new festival caught my attention. Mountrain Man Fest. It would take place at Saratoga Springs on July 24th. The artists that they have lined up are Islands, Health, Phantogram, Real Esta... more info

Pitchfork — As someone who went to college in upstate New York, I can tell you that the region is (1) incredibly cold, and (2) completely off the radar for most touring bands, or at least most touring bands that don't play hardcore. But two young men named Gabri... more info