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R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots have been tapped to participate in the 10th annual Voodoo Music Festival down in New Orleans from October 24-26.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 2, and for all your additional info check out the festival’s official site.

Besides the Voodoo Fest, Lollapalooza and the Virgin Festival had previously announced line-ups filled with alternative bands including Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, and the Foo Fighters. Oddly enough, Trent Reznor and company will be a part of all three festivals.

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The legendary label, which helped launch the careers of bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana, will celebrate it’s 20 years with a two day concert at Seattle’s Marymoor Park on July 12 and 13.

Performing at the show will be a reunited Green River, which was the band that Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard where in before Mother Love Bone, as well as, Mark Arm and Steve Turner, who went on to Mudhoney.

Also on the bill will be: Red Red Meat, the Fluid, Beachwood Sparks, Seaweed, Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords, Foals, Grand Archives, the Helio Sequence, Iron & Wine, Kinski, Low, Mudhoney, No Age, Wolf Parade, Pissed Jeans and the Ruby Suns.

Tickets will go on sale April 26.

This is what the Green River reunion meant for Jeff Ament in an interview with Billboard:

“There’s been a few emails exchanged and a few jokes about how we’ll get our hair that big and long again. We might all have to go in for weaves. If we got together and wrote a couple of songs and put out a single, that’d be more important to me than playing a show; just getting in a room together.”

Very, very cool.

If you’re able to go, then have a blast, it should be a good time.

Have a listen to Green River – “Swallow My Pride”

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Richard Patrick revamped Filter shortly following his work with the side project Army of Anyone, which featured STP’s Dean and Rob DeLeo. The band’s first album in six years seems to be a political one. The first single, “Soldiers of Misfortune”, was apparently inspired by a Filter fan who joined the Army Reserve to pay for his college tuition, who sadly lost his life in Iraq.

Look for Anthems for the Damned on May 13.

Meanwhile, the band will be kicking off a tour on April 24 at Stubb’s in Austin and will wrap up in the States on June 1 at Boston’s WBCN’s River Rave.

Other stops include the May 17 Rock on the Range festival in Columbus and the May 31 KROCK show in Holmdel, NJ, where Patrick’s buddies STP will be headlining.

It looks like the band will then head to Europe for a few shows.

For a full tour itinerary, and to hear the new single “Soldiers of Misfortune”, check out the band’s MySpace page.

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Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine will be headlining this year’s installment, which takes place at Chicago’s Grant Park from August 1-3.

Also on the bill are Chicago natives Kanye West and Wilco, as well as, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Bloc Party, Cat Power, The Black Keys, Flogging Molly, G. Love and Special Sauce, Blues Traveller and a ton more.

For the full line-up and all other info, like ticket purchasing, check out the festival’s official site.

It’s a pretty solid line-up, it could be worth the trip.

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This year’s Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD will be headlined by three 90’s heavyweights, which include the Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails.

This is almost too good to be true.

Also headlining the festival, which takes place on August 9-10, will be Jack Johnson and Kanye West. The full line-up is expected within the next couple of weeks.

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The band will kick the tour off June 11 in West Palm Beach, FL and wrap things up on June 30 in Mansfield, MA. The tour also includes the previously announced headlining spot at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival, as well as two nights at the legendary Madison Square Garden.

Some of the band members also spoke to Billboard, where bassist Jeff Ament stated that they have been tossing around ideas for a new album.

What a great day this turned out to be. I can’t wait to get my Pearl Jam fix this summer!

Here are the dates for the tour:

June 11: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
June 12: Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
June 13-15: Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo Festival)
June 16: Columbia, S.C. (Colonial Center)
June 17: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Center)
June 19: Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
June 22: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center)
June 24-25: New York (Madison Square Garden)
June 27: Hartford, Conn. (Dodge Music Center)
June 30: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)

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So what acts are being tossed around? How about Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine and Wilco . Which would be one heck of a line-up.Of course, this is only a rumour, but it would make this year’s Lollapalooza one of the best festivals out there this summer. The only thing for certain right now is the date and  location, which is at Chicago’s Grant Park from August 1-3.

Personally, I can’t see all four of these bands being there, especially after Trent Reznor’s remarks about the release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows being “insincere”. But since NIN’s latest release, Ghosts 1-14(which was a 36 track instrumental digital release via the band’s website), I guess Trent has some room to talk.

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These Are the Good Times People hits stores today and is the band’s sixth studio album; so if you enjoy the simplistic and goofy music of PUSA then you should snag a copy.

The band is also currently on the road. They’ll be on the west coast, which includes a stop at the SXSW Festival before heading to the east coast and then they’ll set off to Europe.

To hear some new tunes, “Ghosts Are Everywhere” and “Mixed Up SOB”, and a full list of tour dates check out the band’s MySpace page.

For now, enjoy the video for “Mixed Up SOB”, which was directed by none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic.

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R.E.M., The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Breeders, Flight of the Conchords, Cold War Kids, M.I.A., and Crudo (which is a new Mike Patton/Dan the Automator project) will be on the bill.

The festival will take place on Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-26 at the Gorge Amphitheatre outside of Quincy, Washington. Tickets go on sale March 8 and will begin at the steal of a price $55.50 per day, before going up to $65.50 and then $75.50.

OK, so a cool line-up plus reasonable ticket prices plus being at the Gorge, you would be foolish not to catch this festival. It’s almost worth flying out to Washington for this. Should be a great time.

For a full list of the line-up and more info check out the festival’s official site.

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Radiohead will not just be doing one night, but two nights at the festival, which is being sponsored by the folks behind Coachella. Joining Radiohead will be fellow headliner Jack Johnson, as well as Kings of Leon, The Roots, Cat Power and a bunch more.

The festival will take place on August 8-10 and tickets go on sale February 29, which will cost you $89 for a single day ticket and $258 for a three day pass.

For more info check out the festival’s site.

It’s not that shabby of a line-up, I may make the trip up the turnpike for this one.

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