Chicago Tribune — Fans rewarded for sticking out rain, technical problems The sun played a game of hide-and-seek with the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, which concluded... more info

Rolling Stone — Flaming Lips and MGMT will headline San Francisco’s Treasure Island Festival on October 17th and 18th, a press release confirms. The Decemberists, Girl Talk, the Streets, Grizzly Bear and more bands round out the bill, which can be found at the eve... more info

Allmusic Blog — 2002 didn't suffer from quite the case of multiple personalities that 2001 did, but the changing of the musical guard was almost as apparent. While vets like Beck, Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Flaming Lips, and Wilco turned in some of the best... more info

My Old Kentucky — The Antlers' 2009 album, Hospice, was recently named "Best Album of 2009 So Far" by NPR. Robin Hilton says, "Frontman Peter Silberman is only 23, but has produced one of the most beautiful and moving works I've heard in a long, long time. Just aston... more info

411 Mania — Festival back for another big year... more info

NME — The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear also set for San Francisco festival more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Image: Newscom, Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips in April 2009, Washington, DC All Tomorrow’s Parties is coming to New York state for the second year this September. Originally started in England, the 3-day festival began doing stints stateside the past... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sakalli said...Janus - Gravedigger (1971) (@256)http://sakalli.blog.hrtreblekickr said...REM - American Acoustic Tour 1991Ramones - 914 SessionsThe Breeders - Last Splash DemosAnimal Collective - GlastonburyNirvana - SinglesPanda Bear - Young PrayerT... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Feelies are playing Southpaw in Brooklyn on Sunday, September 13th (no tickets yet). That means they won't be sticking around ATP to see the Flaming Lips (who play the upstate NY festival that same day) (The Feelies play... more info

Altsounds — NY's *Hopewell* has been blending vintage fuzz pedal jams with their early space rock and shoegaze roots for over a decade, their 2001 full-length, The Curved Glass, being the perfect, noisy bridge between the epic psychedelia of ‘90s acts l... more info