The Austin City Limits Music Festival has revealed the 2010 schedule and is now completely sold out. The lineup includes The Eagles, Muse, Phish, The Strokes, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, Norah Jones and Vampire Weekend, among many others. [2010.aclfestival.com]
U2 has posted a video on their website, post Bono back surgery, promising to keep good on their North American tour in summer 2011. All dates and tickets are still valid at the original venues. [www.u2.com]
Chris Wolstenholme recently told NME that Muse will begin work on the follow-up to 2009's The Resistance next year. He reported the band are "due a break," but will "definitely start working on a new album next year." [www.nme.com]
The Clientele will release a "mini-album" of eight new songs, Minotaur, on August 31st via Merge Records. The band also have some shows schedule in September. They released Bonfires on the Heath in 2009. [www.mergerecords.com]
According to their Twitter account, Underoath have completed work on the follow-up to 2008's Lost in the Sound of Separation. Back in April, drummer Aaron Gillespie parted ways with the band. [twitter.com]
Devendra Banhart has announced some late summer and fall US dates in continued support of What Will We Be. Banhart will play the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October. [www.devendrabanhart.com]
Emmett Malloy, director and Brushfire Records co-founder, is planning a Nick Drake documentary project. Malloy says it's "a nice, multilayered piece" consisting of a film, tribute album and book. So far, Jack Johnson, Andrew Bird and Matt Costa have signed on. Malloy previously directed The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights tour documentary. [www.billboard.com]
Deerhunter will release their fourth full-length, Halcyon Digest, on September 28th via 4AD. The band is promoting the album street team style, by asking fans to post up a flyer in their respective towns and documenting with photos. [www.4ad.com]
Jason Spaceman told Spinner he's "working on a new [Spiritualized] record" and it already "feels quite special." The band will perform Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space in its entirety for probably the last time ever in North America at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on July 30th. [www.spinner.com]
Even with Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty fresh in our minds (even though it was about two years delayed), Big Boi is already "four, five songs" deep into his next solo album, Daddy Fat Sax, due in late 2011. As well, the next Outkast record is perpetually in the works. [www.mtv.com]
Filter will tentatively release The Trouble With Angels through Rocket Science Ventures on August 17th. Watch the video for "The Inevitable Relapse" on YouTube. Listen to a lengthy podcast with Richard Patrick on CWG. [www.theprp.com]
Sum 41 will return on August 31st with Screaming Bloody Murder. Download the first single, "Scumfuck," on TheresNoSolution. [theresnosolution.com]
Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys has created the soundtrack for the upcoming Richard Ayoade (IT Crowd) film, Submarine. The movie is due out sometime in 2011 across the pond. [www.contactmusic.com]
Philip Selway (drummer for Radiohead) will release his solo debut, Familial, through Nonesuch on August 31st. Members of Soul Coughing and Wilco contributed performances to the album. Stream "By Some Mircale" on SoundCloud. Read the full press release on Nonesuch. [www.philipselway.com]
Dungen will issue their sixth album, Skit I Allt, through Mexican Summer on September 14th. The Swedish pysch-rock band will tour the US this fall. Stream album track "Marken Låg Stilla" over at Stereogum. [www.mexicansummer.com]
Grinderman, Nick Cave's garage rock band, will release a new album, Grinderman 2, on September 14th through Anti- Records. [anti.com]
Billy Corgan is chugging along with Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, the ongoing Smashing Pumpkins 44-track project/free album. Go download the latest track, "Freak," and the first song on the second EP, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. 2: The Solstice Bare. Best tune of the lot, so far. [www.smashingpumpkins.com]
Thursday has hit Tarbox Road Studios in Fredonia, NY with producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mogwai) to begin work on their sixth full-length. Look for the album in spring 2011 (the tentative word is April). [www.epitaph.com]
Band of Horses have announced an extensive North American tour in September and October in continued support of Infinite Arms. [www.myspace.com]
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the duo of Sean Lennon and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp-Muhl, have released their first single, "Jardin du Luxembourg," with Mark Ronson on bass and production duties. The duo is currently working on two albums, an acoustic album due this fall and an electric record due in 2011. Preview the single at Other Music. [www.myspace.com]
