Osheaga Music & Arts Festival 2010 Lineup Announced

This years Montreal based Osheaga Music & Arts Festival has some serious heavy hitters. The festival will take place the weekend of July 31-August 1 and features the return of the Arcade Fire, recently re-united indie-rockers Pavement, The Black Keys and many more.

Lineup:
Arcade Fire
Weezer
Pavement
Metric
The National
Deadmau5
The Cat Empire
The Black Keys
Stars
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Jimmy Cliff
The Gaslight Anthem
Charlie Winston
Beach House
Jamie Lidell
Robyn
Sarah Harmer
Frank Turner
Blitzen Trapper
Avi Buffalo
Bahamas
Amanda Mabro
Ian Kelley

Pitchfork Music Festival

The lineup for the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival which will be held at Chicago’s Union Park on July 16 – 18 was announced today. As stated by Pitchfork, this year’s festival welcomes the highly anticipated return of legendary band Pavement as they make one of their first appearances since reuniting! Pavement will perform on Sunday night. Friday features indie-rock, chart-topping mainstays Modest Mouse, while Saturday and Sunday sees performances by LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, Here We Go Magic, St. Vincent, Lightning Bolt, Cass McCombs and Sleigh Bells.

Here's one of the first Pavement tunes I was introduced to at the tender age of 10.

Pavement to Reunite

Big news today as seminal indie-rock band Pavement will reunite. Now don't go off and get too excited, the reunion show will not take place until September 21 2010. That's right, Pavement will not be playing together until about a year from now. On the plus side, they will be playing in New York City's Central Park. Could one really ask for a better, more intimate outdoor venue to see a huge reunion concert? I think not.
Here's the very first Pavement song I ever heard at the tender age of nine. It's called "Shady Lane" and its terribly catchy.