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Happy holidays, dudes and dudettes! Hope you got everything you wished for and downed copious amounts of egg nog. Now, on to more important stuff than family gatherings and gift exchanges….live music! Naturally, there are ton of great shows going on this week in NYC as we lead up to New Year’s Eve, including some multi-night holiday runs, some late-night throwdowns, and plenty of NYE parties that don’t involve watching a ball drop in 10-degree weather. READ MORE
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Earlier yesterday fans of the Summer Camp Music Festival on Facebook and Twitter started to get treated to the official lineup announcement slowly but surely leaking out over the interwebs. I was busy so didn’t really have time to digest it, but waking up this morning to the official announcement and seeing that moe., Umphrey’s McGee, and Primus are all at the top of the lineup is a nice treat for any fans in Illinois that regularly make this festival. I used to attend this back in my formidable years in the Midwest and have nothing but fond memories and continued respect for the lineups that these guys have been putting together. READ MORE

The fine folks over at NPR Music are webcasting live from the Newport Folk Festival this weekend. As with other recent festival coverage, NPR is now including video (previous streams were audio-only).
Here’s the full schedule (all times are ET):
Saturday, July 30:
6:00 pm: The Decemberists
5:50 pm: Pokey LaFarge
4:45 pm: Gillian Welch
4:30 pm: Delta Spirit
3:25 pm: Earl Scruggs
3:00 pm: Freelance Whales
2:00 pm: Gogol Bordello
1:45 pm: Typhoon
12:40 pm: The Felice Brothers
12:00 pm: Wailin’ Jennys
Sunday, July 31
6:00 pm: Emmylou Harris
5:50 pm: Chris Thile and Michael Daves
4:45 pm: Elvis Costello
4:30 pm: Mountain Man
3:25 pm: Amos Lee
3:00 pm: The Secret Sisters
2:00 pm: Wanda Jackson
1:45 pm: Mavis Stapes
12:45 pm: Carolina Chocolate Drops
12:30 pm: Tegan And Sara
12:00 pm: David Wax Museum
They’re also promising some additional coverage including: The Devil Makes Three, Ramblin Jack Elliott, River City Extension,The Civil Wars, M. Ward, The Cave Singers and more.
Primus has returned to the road with a bang this year — I know from experience — and they’re continuing on with that energy by bringing their seminal Frizzle Fry to the stage once again on September 16th in Los Angeles. The band returned to the road back in 2004 with a similar premise, which is fantastically captured in their live DVD, Hallucino-Genetics
. The band also announced that their October 5th gig at the Tabernacle in Atlanta will be “an evening with…” which won’t be a show to miss.
Read on for their full set of tour dates with openers like Gogol Bordello, Portugal. The Man, and Split Lip Rayfield among others. READ MORE