March 24, 2008 – Three weeks after stirring interest with the announcement of headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson, officials for San Francisco's inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, a three-day event slated to hit Golden Gate Park Aug. 22-24, have finally unveiled the complete bill -- and it's pretty stellar. Beck, Wilco, Broken Social Scene, Devendra Banhart, Cold War Kids, M.

March 24, 2008 – Sporting a sparkly gold, sequin-covered top and black short-shorts, spunky frontwoman Adele Bethel led the Sons and Daughters through a set heavy in tracks from sophomore LP This Gift Friday night (March 21) at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, as a thin crowd of local devotees boogied to the band's punked-out-twist-and-shout rockers. Guitarist Scott Paterson held court with slashing rhythms and hollering backing vocals during new single "Darling" and old shake-rattle-and-roll track "Rama Lama," lifting the collective confusion lingering from Bodies of Water's eclectic, opening set chock full mostly bewildering vocal intonations. Perpetually one-upping the sass, Bethel and Paterson traded move for move, commanding the spotlight with foot-stomping lead vocals, and a rockabilly aesthetic and tricky six-string fingerings, respectively.

March 21, 2008 – The psychedelic minds of MGMT's Andrew Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes have united to form side project Blikk Fang, and hope to release a debut LP in early 2009. Until then sate your curiosity with two tracks -- "(Just a Little) Judas Tonic" and "Nupital Eagles Sharpened" -- posted at purevolume.com. [Pitchfork]Boston's Dresden Dolls -- evidentially disciples of the Eastern philosophy of yin and yang -- have announced the May 20 release of No, Virginia, a collection of new songs, as well as old demos and B-sides from 2006's Yes, Virginia sessions.Coachella promoter Goldenvoice has teamed with Amtrak to provide a free train shuttle, dubbed the Coachella Express, between Los Angeles' Union Station and the festival grounds at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA.

March 21, 2008 – This past Monday (March 17), in an industry-shaking announcement, the Raconteurs revealed that Consolers of the Lonely, the quartet's much-mooted sophomore LP, would drop March 25 in digital, CD, and vinyl formats via Warner -- eliminating any lead time for press or marketing the album. But today (March 21), the album apparently popped up for sale on iTunes -- accidentally, we assume -- and now the new 14-track set, which Jack White and crew hoped would "not be defined by it's [sic] first weeks [sic] sales, pre-release promotion, or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it," is now seeping across the internet. Don't rush to the iTunes Store, though: Consolers of the Lonely is no longer available there, but eager fans are already snagging the album over illegal file-sharing services. SPIN.com reached a spokesperson for Apple, who could not comment at press time.

March 21, 2008 – After a four year absence, Alanis Morissette, the once-jagged, multi-platinum-selling Canuck, will return June 10 with her seventh LP to date, Flavors of Entanglement. The album, originally slated to drop May 20 but postponed by her label Maverick/Reprise, was co-written and produced by Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Imogen Heap) and, per usual, will document Morissette's "fragile moments," the songstress said in a press release. But fans can also expect a slight sonic departure: Eastern percussion, strings, and electronics will pepper the album. To hold yourself over until June 10, check out Morissette's gut-busting cover of Fergie's "My Humps" here.

March 21, 2008 – No matter if you're altar bound or not, frontman David Gedge's the Wedding Present will return to the LP game May 20 with the release of El Rey, the band's eighth studio album to date and follow up to 2005's Take Fountain, set to arrive stateside courtesy of Manifesto. The fresh eleven-track set, produced by seasoned knob twiddler Steve Albini, also the man behind the Wedding Present's 1991 set Seamonsters, will feature tunes with California-centric titles such as "Santa Ana Winds," "Spider Man on Hollywood," and "Palisades," all possibly telling of Gedge's Golden State residency. Though details have yet-to-be revealed, the album's release will be followed by an extensive U.S. tour. El Rey tracklisting: 1. "Santa Ana Winds" 2. "Spider-man on Hollywood"3. "I Lost the Monkey"4. "Soup"?5. "Palisades"6. "The Trouble with Men"?7. "Model, Actress, Whatever..."? 8.

March 21, 2008 – From Peter, Bjorn and John's Peter Morén to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, to Tilly and Wall guitarist Derek Pressnall's project Flowers Forever, going solo was name of the game at SXSW '08. Circa Survive frontman Anthony Green joined the pack, surprising SPIN.com with a vast departure from his band's epic wall of sound on a new assortment of acoustic ditties. Watch Green perform solo track "Drug Dealer" at SPIN & MySpace's San Jacinto Saloon on 6th Street in Austin, and then check out a video interview with SPIN.com, in which the rocker details his forthcoming solo album, and what's next for Circa Survive. Now Watch This: Anthony Green - "Drug Dealer"

March 20, 2008 – Welcome to British Hip-Hop Slang 101, students! Today your professor, London's grime rhymer Dizzee Rascal, will kick off the semester with a basic exercise in footwear. So take a torch to those French, Spanish, and German language textbooks, and pay attention as Mr. Rascal offers a truly valuable lesson you can take to the streets: Note to the world: Can we get a U.S. hip-hop artist to provide a lesson in stateside street slang? We here at SPIN.com are behind the curve, still consider "dope" and "fresh" streetwise vernacular, and have taken recent hip-hop cues from Flight of the Conchords. Please help!

March 20, 2008 – Smashing Pumpkins will return to the studio this spring to begin working on new material for a forthcoming release, but they'll deliver them in a surprising way. "Billy [Corgan] and I are going to start working every day like we used to," drummer Jimmy Chamberlain told Spinner.com (via the Daily Swarm). "But I don't think we will make records again... the old business model is dead.

March 20, 2008 – Haven't caught a live set from Nada Surf as the trio tour the nation behind their latest LP, Lucky? Well, if not, don't fret for MySpace Transmissions, an original program offering exclusive music and video to users, has come to the rescue with its second installment featuring video of a live seven-tune set, as well as Q&A with the Brooklyn-based indie rockers. Head over to myspace.com/transmissions to check out the full set, which includes performances of "Always Love" and "Blizzard of '77," off 2005's This Weight Is a Gift and 2002's Let Go, respectively, plus new Lucky tracks like "I Like What You Say" and "See These Bones." For a taste, here's the clip of "See These Bones": And if you're dying to make these tracks yours, buy the exclusive live EP via iTunes by clicking here. Nada Surf's MySpace Transmissions tracklisting: 1. "Always Love" 2. "Whose Authority"3.