Stereogum — It wasn't so long ago we waved goodbye to Jelly NYC's three-year experiment in filling Williamsburg's McCarren Park, filling its enormous Pool with hipsters, booze, and buzz bands instead of water, leading to the finest free Sunday/undproductive M... more info

Stereogum — The lineup for this fall's Treasure Island won't be announced until 7/13, but we were tipped to a few folks who'll definitely be playing the Bay Area fest: MGMT, MSTRKRFT, and Girl Talk on 10/17 and for those less into booty shaking, Flaming Lips, Be... more info

Live Daily — Bad Brains [ tickets ], Girl Talk [ tickets ], Sunny Day Real Estate [ tickets ] and Mudhoney [ tickets ] are among the acts confirmed for this year's Willamette Week's Musicfest NW, to be held Sept. 16-19 at various venues around the Portland, OR, m... more info

Live Daily — Alt-rock icons Weezer [ tickets ] and Blink-182 [ tickets ] have signed on to headline the 2009 Virgin Mobile Festival [ tickets ], which organizers have announced will be a free event. "Times are tough and money's tight," reads an announcement po... more info

JamBase — Virgin Mobile FreeFest! Virgin Fest 2008 by Jurick The 2009 Virgin Mobile Music Festival will now be a FREE event. Dubbed the Virgin Mobile "FreeFest", the all day free event will be held on August 30 at the beautiful, 40 wooded acres of Merriwe... more info

MTV.com News — Franz Ferdinand, Taking Back Sunday, Public Enemy, more also join August 30 show in Maryland.By James Montgomery Blink-182 Photo: Jared Milgrim/ FilmMagic Perhaps taking a page from the Osbournes' concet-planning playbook, or perhaps reali... more info

Stereogum — Citing "all the bad news about the economy and the layoffs," Virgin Mobile has rebranded its fourth annual American music festival the Virgin Mobile FreeFest, and has reduced its price of admission from a lot of dollars to no dollars at all. An ex... more info

White Folks Get Crunk — So what seems like ages ago now, a big festival called Summer Camp gets thrown around my way. Which is pretty much a massive hippie fest with a few oddball acts. This year there was Method Man and Redman, from what I heard the crowd was dissintereste... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Jorodolfo said...Frank Zappa - 20 Years of Frank Zappa Box Set (12 LP-Box / 12 CD-Box)Discs1. The Basic Primer: Z-A (69 Mb)2. The Soundtracks (59 Mb)3. The Cucamonga Era (60 Mb) 4. Gas Mask (57 Mb)5. Hotel Dixie (42 Mb)6. The Grand Wazoo Orchestra (5... more info

All About Jazz — As part of an issue on creativity, business magazine Fast Company has named the "The 100 Most Creative People In Business" and it's "10 Most Creative People In The Music Business" are: DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, 18 year old rapper/produce... more info