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

Pitchfork — Other than a wicked sunburn, heat stroke, and getting tangled in some hippie's dreadlocks, the most troubling thing about Coachella can be the constant feeling that you're missing the best set of the festival. There are a lot of great acts playing ac... more info

Pitchfork — This year's Pitchfork Music Festival comes to Chicago's Union Park July 16-18, and the lineup is already ridiculously stacked: Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Raekwon, and plenty more. And now it's time to fi... more info