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As summer quickly approaches, the oncoming heat is inevitable but so is festival season. Chicago has long been acknowledged as the birthplace of house music and returning for its second year is Wavefront Music Festival, the Windy City’s first and only beachfront festival. This year the festival will be debuting the Chicago Heritage of House Stage, paying homage to the forefathers of house music: Frankie Knuckles, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, Gene Farris, Jamie Principle, original Hot Mix 5 member Ralphi Rosario, Teri Bristol and Psycho Bitch (Crobar) and Mike Serafini (Gramaphone Records).

Independence Day celebrations can continue through the weekend of July 5-7 as EDM artists pack the shores of Lake Michigan at Chicago’s beautiful Montrose Beach. The festival, surely to be as powerful as Chicago’s wind, will be hosts to acclaimed hit makers Eric Morillo, Fatboy Slim, Holy Ghost!, Jacques Lu Cont, Lee Burridge and many others.

And, of course, there’s the spectacular fireworks display over Lake Michigan. We’ll be giving away three pairs of VIP tickets, one pair of VIP passes per week over the next three weeks. Enter for a chance to win the first set of passes by providing your email address below. The first week of the contest will close on Friday, May 31 at 5 p.m. Start your summer with a bang.

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Indie bands have been mainstays of the late night talk show circuit for years now, but they're starting to infiltrate morning shows too. Case in point: Grizzly Bear just played Ellen this morning (5/24), which most certainly introduced their music to a new audience. (Yesterday, Michael Bolton was the musical guest.) You can watch them do Shields' track, "Yet Again," below (via P4k).

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If it seems as though we’ve been talking about the National’s excellent new record Trouble Will Find Me for weeks now it’s because we have. Even though the record was just released this week, fascination with the band and a buzzing curiosity about how they might follow up 2010′s powerhouse High Violet have kept music writers (and our own comments sections) very busy over the past month or so. Initial reactions to the album have been largely positive, with our own Tom Breihan claiming that Trouble‘s “soft, majestic intensity is a reassuring and comfortable thing.” It’s a sentiment that seems to be at the core of what so many people love about the National — a band continues to age gracefully, not through a series of radical reinventions or extreme left-turns, but by playing to their own particular strengths as songwriters … which seem to have grown more formidable with each consecutive record.

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When you’re planning a remix album and want to piss off approx. half of your fan base, you call The Field, whose sprawling epics test the attention spans of even the most dedicated book reader under 30. His work on Sally Shapiro‘s 

Here’s another Japanese bonus track for you: Swedish metal lords Ghost B.C. take Depeche Mode’s most serene, meditative track in their catalogue — ahem, “Waiting for the Night” — and turn it into the sort of rock ‘n’ roll theatrical flair that Dream Theater or Roger Waters might conjure up.

As Exclaim.ca points out, the cover comes stripped off the Japanese edition of the band’s latest album, Infestissumam. Save yourself the shipping on eBay, however, and stream it below.

Infestissumam is now available via Loma Vista Recordings.

James Murphy aboard SS Coachella 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)

Staying in NYC this weekend? There's actually no shortage of things to do here, even though the weather forecast is less than ideal. Head below for our top 10 list of events going on this Memorial Day Weekend.

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Sweden’s Shout Out Louds performed on last night’s Leno to promote their album Optica. Following interviews with guests Tyler Perry and Isla Fischer, the band performed album cut “Walking In Your Footsteps.” Check it out below.

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Hopefully you left room in your schedule for Bonnaroo’s first annual Roo Run 5K. No, really.

On Saturday, June 15th, amidst performances by Death Grips, Solange, and The Tallest Man on Earth, the festival’s “farmland becomes a raceway, with Bonnaroovians encouraged to sweat side-by-side along a designated course that twists across the Tennessee landscape. The 5k (3.1 mile) Roo Run is dirt-stomping, sweat-drenched history in the making.”

It’s never smart to run on a stomach full of booze, which is why the festival will provide all runners with bibs. (Hey, at least they have a sense of humor.)

At the Roo Run booth you

Following the debut of singer Alison Moyet

A few weeks ago, the National played a concert at the MoMa PS1 in Long Island City, New York. The show was part of an original art project put together by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, who sought to examine

With each passing week, listening to the deluge of mixtapes, radio shows, and live sets from electronic producers and hip-hop artists alike becomes an even more insurmountable task. Quality offerings can fly under the radar, either added to our ever-growing