alt-J Announces a Headlining Tour of North America

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LOS ANGELES – alt-J announces a headlining tour of North America starting on April 7 at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO. The tour includes festival stops at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Firefly and Mountain Jam. A show at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY will mark the largest venue the band has headlined in North America. That show will

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Beach Slang Announces Fall Headline Tour

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Beach Slang have announced their Fall U.S. headlining tour, which begins on October 20th and continues thru December 2 with stops in Nashville, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, NYC, Philadelphia and more. Fans who buy pre-sale tickets, beginning July 25th at 12pm ET, will have the opportunity to purchase a limited edition 7″. The record includes two rare, never-released tracks – a cover of The Pixies’ “Where is

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Foxygen Kick Off Summer Tour This Weekend In Support Of Hang

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Chicago – It’s been a busy year for Foxygen, the LA-based duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado. Since the release of their third full-length album, the “warm and full and huge” (SPIN) Hang, they’ve performed on CONAN, toured the country as a 9-piece, been name-dropped in a Google Home commercial, covered Jessica Pratt’s “On Your Own Love Again” for Amazon’s Songs of Summer playlist, crafted original music for Amazon’s An

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Glastonbury 2017: Thursday Report

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Somerset, UK – What a difference the weather makes. After last year’s quagmire, it was a whole different ball game when Glastonbury Festival gates opened on Wednesday. Early comers were treated to a day of baking sun and unusually hard ground to hammer in tent pegs. We arrived on Thursday to find it still warm

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