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May
- Thom Yorke has composed a score for a film about tax evasion
- Ol' Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E to give "original virtual performances" at Rock the Bells
- Field Day have announced stage times
- Part two of the Southbank Centre's year-long festival announced
April
- Field Day announce stage-by-stage breakdown
- Norway's Øya Festival now comes with added brunch
- ATP's next two British festivals will be their last
- The xx announce that Solange will appear at Night + Day in London
- D'Angelo(!) will headline Lovebox Festival
- MIDI Festival announces first wave of artists
- The Field Day line-up just got better again
March
- Kraftwerk are headlining Latitude in July
- Filmic festival returns to Bristol
- The xx announce first support acts for Night + Day
February
- The Field Day line-up just keeps getting better
- Atoms For Peace confirmed for Melt! and EXIT festivals
January
- Nonclassical are hosting a 'Pioneers of Electronic Music' festival
- Catch music academic and Dummy essayist Adam Harper lecturing on vaporwave this week
- Field Day line-up bolstered by new additions
- Dimensions Festival share huge first batch of names for 2013
December
- We're giving away two tickets to Field Day 2013
November
- Numbers and Dedbeat announce the new 'Pleasure Principle' weekender for 2013
September
- Demdike Stare, Le1f and Laurel Halo among those to play VIA music festival
- Alpha-ville cancels annual festival and hosts individual events
- Nail the Cross V announces lineup
July
- The Warehouse Project 2012 announces spectacular first lineup
- Bloc 2012 chaos – official statements and unofficial parties
June
- DFA records, The Warehouse Project, Field Day & Melt! launch Blackpool megafestival
- Unsound Festival announce first details for 'The End'-themed installment
May
- Field Day stage times announced
- Frank Ocean and M. Ward to play Bestival
April
- Azealia Banks cancels summer festival appearances
- 17,000 capacity Eastern Electrics festival is homeless :(
- Festival updates from The Great Escape, Mutek, Lovebox and more
- Julio Bashmore, The Felice Brothers, Andrew Weatherall and more added to Beacons Festival
- Bestival, Camden Crawl and more festival news
- Maurice Fulton, Factory Floor and Connan Mockasin added to Land of Kings festival
- West Africa art and music festival announced in Manchester
- Hieroglyphic Being to perform at TUSK Festival
February
- Field Day announcement – Zomby, Laurel Halo, Kassem Mosse, Julia Holter etc play BleeD tent
- Weekly festival news roundup
- Sónar announces Cape Town date
- Mega German industrial park festival Melt! announces first names
- Beacons Festival books good bands, hopes not to flood
- First names for 2012 Lovebox Festival announced
- Sonar announces acts and showcases for Barcelona, Tokyo and Sao Paulo
- Lana Del Rey, Jack White and Florence among headliners for free Hackney Marshes festival
- Bestival - "Dress like animals and watch Orbital"
January
- Primavera Sound adds A$AP Rocky, Girls, The Rapture, Iceage and James Ferraro to bill
- Feist, Scritti, Ghostpoet, Peaking Lights etc play Green Man Festival
- Hot Chip headlines Camp Bestival
- Pan Records showcase this weekend
- Field Day 2012 annonces Blood Orange, Julia Holter, Koreless, Kindness, Liars etc
- Unsound New York – dates and artists revealed
- Bloc confirm London Pleasure Gardens for 2012 venue
- Coachella/money makes Refused and At The Drive In reform
- RBMA moves to New York
December
- Zomby, Mazzy Star and Death Grips added to the Field Day bill
- araabMUZIK, Grimes, Justice and Napalm Death added to Primavera Sound bill
- Sonar announces São Paulo and Tokyo dates
- Franz Ferdinand, SBTRKT, Gold Panda and Metronomy announced for Field Day 2012
- The xx, Bjork, Codeine and Spiritualized announced for Primavera Sound 2012
November
- Death: Southbank Centre’s Festival for the Living
October
- Brian Eno to programme Norwegian festival Punkt
- Software & NNA Tapes unofficial CMJ party
- Jeff Mangum-curated ATP rescheduled
- Pitchfork announces New York festival
- First Afghan music festival in over 30 years opens under-the-radar
September
- Holy Other, Nite Jewel, Pearson Sound, Hype Williams and so on play Elevate Festival in Graz
- Bugged Out are launching a festival
- Unsound add Model 500, Rustie, Legowelt and more to its lineup
- The Barbican's Transcender season will feature Emeralds and a Bulgarian folk choir
- Forest Swords and Maria Minerva will do some cool things in Liverpool
August
- Reading and Leeds stage times
- What we'd be doing if we were in Edinburgh
- Field Day have announced stage times
- Underage Festival schedule announced
- What are you doing after Field Day?
- The SWN line-up just got even better
July
- Yes Way, Upset the Rhythm's really real festival of DIY culture, returns next month
- The Warehouse Project full lineup revealed
- We're media-partnering Bloggers Delight at Field Day
- Festival of "post-digital culture" to take place in London in September
- Pitchfork announce Music Festival in Paris
- John Foxx & The Maths, Laurel Halo and Sun Araw announced for Unsound Festival
- Bjork headlines Bestival
June
- Radiohead to play Glastonbury's Park Stage tonight
- Steve Reich to play Proms in London
- Chris & Cosey, Hype Williams and Joy Orbison in first wave of Unsound announcements
- Warm Up 2011 lineup announced
- Bleep and Sonar give away free tracks by TIger & Woods and Rone
May
- Independent Label Market mixtape
April
- Glastonbury lineup revealed
- James Murphy, Four Tet, Dizzee, Eminem and oOoOO are playing at Sónar