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Middle Waves festival announces full inaugural lineup

Fort Wayne, Indiana’s first ever Middle Waves festival has released its full lineup for 2016. The festival’s additions are heavy with Fort Wayne bands (go figure) that range from Americana (James and the Drifters) to rap (Andromeda and Sankofa) to electro (Metavari) to psychedelic (The Be Colony).

Added acts from outside Ft. Wayne include the Ike Reilly Assassination, Tanlines, and Oddisee.

Early bird prices on tickets are gone, so get your tickets before they’re gone or prices rise. They also plan to announce more bands and daily lineups soon.

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Desert Daze festival lineup nearly complete.

The 2016 Desert Daze festival in Joshua Tree, California (Oct. 14-16) is turning out to be one of the best festivals of the year from the lineup alone.

The Sonics, Temples, Bombino, Gary Wilson, and Death Valley Girls alone are all worth the Friday admission.

As for Saturday, you get Primus, the Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, the Raveonettes, the Coathangers, Night Beats, Ryley Walker, Vinyl Williams, and L.A. Witch.

Sunday brings you Television! Television! Add the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dead Meadow, and Deap Vally to the mix and you have a killer final day.

A three-day pass is only $165.00. That’s a steal.

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Mega Dodo Records releases rare Big Grunt John Peel Session tracks.

UK label Mega Dodo has released a rare recording of John Peel live session tracks from the obscure 1970’s psych band Big Grunt. Featuring members of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, the World, and Sean Head Showband. These four tracks (one of which, “Cyborg Signal,” was never released until now) have rarely been heard since the early 1970’s, and Mega Dodo is releasing them for download and on limited edition 12″ yellow vinyl (only 500 copies!).

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The Luck of Eden Hall release new single inspired by Neil Gaiman.

Chicago psych-rockers The Luck of Eden Hall release their new single, “The End of the Lane” today. The single, a great trippy psych tune, is inspired by award-winning author Neil Gaiman’s book The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Gaiman even drew the cover art for the limited single.

The single can be purchase for download, and there are limited blue and black 7″ vinyl versions to be had as well. The B-side is the song “Blown to Kingdom Come” from their excellent album The Acceleration of Time.

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Pink Floyd to release 27-disc set of early and unreleased material.

Members of the psychedelic pop group Pink Floyd. From left to right, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Rick Wright. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Start your Christmas wish list now because Pink Floyd is set to release The Early Years 1965-1972 this November – a 27-disc box set covering not only albums like Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma, but also rare BBC sessions, unreleased studio sessions, remastered singles, unreleased video, and over seven hours alone of unreleased live audio tracks.

They also plan to release a two-disc (and far more affordable) set called The Early Years – Cre/ation. This stuff is gold if you’re a fan of Pink Floyd, classic rock, prog rock, or psychedelic rock.

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Massive Attack release two new singles.

Electro and trip-hop legends Massive Attack have released two new singles this week – “The Spoils” (which isn’t yet available in the U.S.) and “Come Near Me” (teaming with Ghostpoet on that one). “Come Near Me” is, no surprise, excellent and both tracks hopefully portend a full-length album later this year.

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Elephant Stone offer new album and great goodies through PledgeMusic.

Montreal psych-rockers Elephant Stone are set to drop their latest album, Ship of Fools. You can order a digital download of it for only 8 bucks and a lot of other neat stuff through the PledgeMusic campaign for the record. That digital download, by the way, is an early release, so you’ll get it before most of the general public.

Other fun goodies include the album on CD, cassette, and vinyl, exclusive T-shirts, signed CDs and albums, Indian cooking and sitar lessons with Rishi Dhir, a signed vinyl test pressing of the album, and even the first sitar Dhir owned.

You also get to download four tracks from the album right away – “Manipulator,” “Where I’m Going,” “Andromeda,” and “The Devil’s Shelter” (all of which are excellent) – when you make any purchase.

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Atlanta’s Music Midtown announces lineup for 2016.

Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival has announced its 2016 lineup for September 17-18th It’s a good mix of rock, rap, electro, and R&B. Beck, Deadmau5, the Killers, Alabama Shakes, and the Coathangers are all worth seeing. Weekend tickets start at $125.00 and will only go up as the dates get closer.

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Pixies offer new album and fun goodies through PledgeMusic.

Pixies‘ new album, Head Carrier, is due out September 30, 2016. You can pre-order it and a lot of fun extras through their PledgeMusic page for the album. You can order it on CD, LP, or digital download, of course, but why not add a T-shirt, limited posters, and artwork book, too?

People are already buzzing about the first single, “Um Chagga Lagga,” (which is great punk-fuzz) and how one song on the album is about the band’s former bass player, Kim Deal, sung by their new bass player, Paz Lenchantin.

Don’t miss out on fun stuff offered by a band who can do whatever they want whenever they want it.

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Levitation France announces daily lineup and additional bands.

Levitation France has released single-day tickets, daily lineups, and additional band announcements. The additions of Follakzoid, Alex Mass (of the Black Angels), and Klaus Johann Grobe are great ones. Don’t miss this festival. It’s sure to be an excellent two days.

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