MTV.com News — Rappers, who met at Dame Dash's DD172 space, call themselves Center Edge Territory.By Shaheem Reid Mos Def Photo: Jeffrey Ufberg/ Getty Images "Just chillin'" with Dame Dash may have just spawned a rap supergroup project. On Wednesday, at ... more info

Guardian Music — The choice of Simpsons creator Matt Groening to curate next year's festival is an inspired one. Let's just hope we don't get Nancy Cartwright singing Do the BartmanWhat's that noise? Oh, it's the sound of Britain's alt-rock fans exploding with deligh... more info

Guardian Music — Will the creator of the Simpsons and Futurama bring a little LA flavour to Minehead with his lineup for next year's ATP festival?The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has been announced as the second curator of next year's All Tomorrow's Parties festiva... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Vincent Cornelli The Mars Volta are on tour. Last night (10/8) they stopped in NYC to play a 90-or-so minute set at Roseland Ballroom..."good times. I was basically dead center...maybe 20 or so rows back. crowd was pretty... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bob Mould @ ATP NY (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Valleys @ Bruar Falls * Os Mutantes, DeLeon @ Webster Hall * The Mars Volta @ Roseland Ballroom * Drummer, Royal Bangs, Bottle Up &... more info

All About Jazz — On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement A... more info

Stereogum — While we were rocking the Catskills, enjoying what Wayne Coyne said was "the greatest collection of underground music ever assembled," dozens of other great indie bands (and a few hip-hop luminaries) put on a much larger mountain festival in Morri... more info

Culture Bully — To those who paid the $30+ bill to enter the door, the brevity of it all was the only gripe worth mentioning once all was said and done. Although it left more than a few audience members a bit unhappy, the condensed show likely helped Cedric, Omar an... more info

Rolling Stone — • M.I.A., Dead Weather Heat Up Outside Lands • DMB Team With Fergie at Outside Lands • Mars Volta, Mastodon Pummel Outside Lands • Pearl Jam Ignite Outside Lands • Blink-182 Pay Tribute to DJ AM • Incubus, The National Rock Outside Lands ... more info

Live Daily — Perfect weather added to the perfect storm of festival cheer on day two (8/29) of the 2009 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Saturday's crowd filled out substantially--with fans turning out to see such names ... more info