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The 2013 installment of Barcelona’s Primavera Sound doesn’t conclude until tomorrow, but already has the festival announced one of the acts playing next year. Neutral Milk Hotel will appear at Primavera Sound 2014. It’s the band’s first confirmed reunion gig of 2014; however, many more dates are to come.

Check out Neutral Milk Hotel’s current tour docket below.

Neutral Milk Hotel 2013 Tour Dates:
10/11

Earlier this week we heard a new remix of Rocko

Driving to the Sasquatch! Festival on Thursday I opted to skip out on I-90 from Seattle and instead drive way up north and take Route 2. It still gets you where you’re going, but the traffic-congested two-and-a-half hour trip you get with 90 becomes an isolated six-hour journey if you choose Rt. 2. It’s completely worth it considering what you get instead: over 100 miles of absolutely stunning forests. Bright spring weather shifts into snowy mountains, freight trains chug by, so long they seem to lack a beginning or end — the forest completely surrounds you. It’s a real experience (playing Mount Eerie and Agalloch records loud certainly helps, too) and it sort of sums up what makes Sasquatch! so special.

The big sell on a music festival beyond the lineup is the idea that it’s not just about seeing bands you like

Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan dedicated a few moments of Live! With Kelly and Michael to Daft Punk this week. Ripa brought out a copy of the new Rolling Stone with Daft Punk on the cover, before commenting, “They’re saying it’s the return of Daft Punk. First of all, I said to myself, ‘Return of? I love Daft Punk! Where did they go?’” Kelly and Michael also talked about the Daft Punk-inspired helmets fans have been buying and making recently, before donning helmets of their own and dancing to “Get Lucky”. Check out the clip below.

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During their set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound last night, The Jesus and Mary Chain brought out My Bloody Valentine’s Bilinda Butcher to sing vocals on “Just Like Honey”. (My Bloody Valentine is also performing at the festival). Replay the moment below (via Slicing Up Eyeballs).

Last night, Baroness played their first show as a full band since a bus accident in England last August that injured every member of the group. It was also the band’s first show with a new line-up: Nick Jost on bass and Sebastian Thomson on drums. Below, watch fan footage of the first song the band performed last night at Union Transfer in Philly, “Take My Bones Away”.

Frontman John Dyer Baizley recently spoke to Stereogum about his long recovery process. “This accident worked its way out on everyone on a different way,” said Baizley. “We were all affected in different ways. Getting back to rehearsals and even the concept of touring has been, at times, challenging. The most immediate challenge I faced was physical. But my anticipation and excitement is building. It

Stone Temple Pilots are suing Scott Weiland. The band filed a lawsuit again him on Friday, claiming to have lost millions of dollars on the Stone Temple Pilots 20th anniversary tour because Weiland was late for shows and promotional events.

Sigur Rós have a new album out soon via XL, Kveikur, out internationally on June 17 and in the US June 18. Last night the band stopped by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to play the album’s title track. Check it out below.

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One week ago today, Stone Temple Pilots took the stage at KROQ’s Weenie Roast accompanied by a new singer, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, and debuted a new song titled, “Out Of Time”. Following the performance, Bennington confirmed to KROQ that he would indeed by joining STP as a full-time member.

“When this opportunity came up, it was just like a no-brainer. We couldn’t really plan a tour until now because we couldn’t let people know what was going on. Now the cat’s out of the bag so we’re going to go out and make more music and go play more shows and have some fun.”

The only problem? The band’s founding member and original singer, Scott Weiland, claims he’s “still a member of the band.” In an open letter to fans issued on Friday, Weiland’s says the band’s decision to hire Bennington “took me by surprise. And it hurt.”

“The band that played last weekend was not Stone Temple Pilots and it was wrong of them to present themselves as that,” Weiland says in the letter. “First of all they don

One week ago today, Stone Temple Pilots took the stage at KROQ’s Weenie Roast accompanied by a new singer, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, and debuted a new song titled, “Out Of Time”. Following the performance, Bennington confirmed to KROQ that he would indeed by joining STP as a full-time member.

“When this opportunity came up, it was just like a no-brainer. We couldn’t really plan a tour until now because we couldn’t let people know what was going on. Now the cat’s out of the bag so we’re going to go out and make more music and go play more shows and have some fun.”

What does Scott Weiland think of these recent developments? In an open letter to fans, the band’s founding member and original singer said the announcement “took me by surprise. And it hurt.”

Weiland was unceremoniously fired from STP earlier this year and has been threatening legal action ever since. In the letter, he said, “the band that played last weekend was not Stone Temple Pilots and it was wrong of them to present themselves as that. First of all they don