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With guest appearances from Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Aaron LaCrate, more

They may call it the "No Chiefs Allowed Tour", but El-P and Dizzee Rascal's North American jaunt is packed to the gills with towering talent. Aside from their own formidable presences, the tour includes appearances by Def Jux artists and associates Aesop Rock, Kidz in the Hall, Busdriver, Mr. Dibbs, and Mighty Quin. And Aaron LaCrate is serving as Dizzee's DJ. Not bad, gentlemen.

"No Chiefs Allowed" kicks off tonight (May 8) in Washington, D.C.

In other news, Dizzee has a smattering of European dates this spring and summer, and El-P has a new blog. His first post is a pretty funny Kanye send-up. [MORE...]

Video: Dizzee Rascal: Flex [from the Maths + English LP]
Video: El-P: Smithereens (Stop Crying) [from the I'll Sleep When You're Dead LP]

Dizzee Rascal is gearing up to kick off his first US tour in four years tomorrow (May 8), and NME.COM caught up with the Arctic Monkeys-collaborating rapper.

Spiritualized, Raconteurs, Massive Attack, My Morning Jacket, CSS, the National, Vampire Weekend, Battles, Annie, Stars, Hercules and Love Affair, etc. etc.

Add, oh, a billion or so more names to the list of those slogging through the (inevitable) rain for this year's Glastonbury Festival when it rumbles through the hills around the English town for which it's named June 27-29. The nice folks at Glastonbury recently announced their lineup, and everybody and their mom is playing it. Yes, even your mom is playing it.

Joining this year's big to-do are the likes of Spiritualized, Massive Attack, the Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, CSS, Black Lips, the National, Caribou, Battles, Annie, Vampire Weekend, Stars, Goldfrapp, Band of Horses, Neon Neon, Dizzee Rascal, John Cale, Black Mountain, Yeasayer, Hercules and Love Affair, Kid Sister, a Simian Mobile Disco DJ set, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Booka Shade, Los Campesinos!, the Futureheads, Billy Bragg, Pete Doherty, Manu Chao, Holy Fuck, the Gossip, Vetiver, Kool Keith & Kutmaster Kurt, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Roisin Murphy, Santogold, the Cave Singers, a DJ set from A-Trak, Jimmy Cliff, the Black Kids, Mystery Jets, Cadence Weapon, Lightspeed Champion, Tunng, Solomon Burke, Edwyn Collins, the Teenagers, Elbow, Mark Ronson, the Handsome Family, Sons & Daughters, Robyn Hitchcock, Dengue Fever, Foals, Editors, We Are Scientists, Estelle, the Cribs, UNKLE, the Wombats, the Kills, the Duke Spirit, Martina Topley-Bird, Sinead O'Connor, Appleblim, Glasvegas, the Swell Season, Candi Staton, Ethiopiques, the Zutons, Squarepusher, Jason Forrest (as DJ Donna Summer), the...

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Dizzee Rascal and British Sea Power are set to play the Kendall Calling festival.

So do Dizzee Rascal, Dan Deacon, Mission of Burman, Go! Team, Throbbing Gristle, Devo

French folks need their festivals too, and one event satisfying that need is Villette Sonique. This year's edition of the festival will invade Paris' Parc de la Villette from June 3-8.

True to its host city's nature, Villette Sonique's 2008 lineup is an eclectic one. How eclectic? Have a look:

Mission of Burma, Clipse, Dizzee Rascal, Deerhunter, Sunset Rubdown, Shellac, Devo, the Go! Team, Throbbing Gristle, HEALTH, Sage Francis, Six Organs of Admittance, Chromatics, Melt-Banana, El Guincho, Dan Deacon, Bottomless Pit, Pilooski, Martin Rev of Suicide, Pan Sonic, Chromatics, Joakim, and Colleen, among others.

There's also a record fair, which is an excellent thing to have at a music festival, if we can say so ourselves.

Plus: Times New Viking, High Places, Bon Iver, Elf Power, HEALTH, Mahjongg, Icy Demons, Titus Andronicus, Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar

And there you have it! With this announcement you're reading right now, the lineup for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival-- descending on Chicago's Union Park July 18-20-- is officially complete. And just which artists are we pleased to welcome to the bill this time out?

Well, filling out Friday's Don't Look Back festivities (held in conjunction with our pals at All Tomorrow's Parties), we have lo-fi giants Sebadoh, who will perform their soon-to-be-reissued 1993 album Bubble and Scrape in its entirety. They join Mission of Burma, blasting through Vs., and Public Enemy, turning back that clock to 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Then on Saturday, the Pitchfork Music Festival welcomes a bar band of arena proportions-- the mighty Hold Steady-- along with the percussion-heavy psych-pop of Caribou, the sunny day stylings of Elephant 6 affiliates Elf Power, Jersey barnstormers Titus Andronicus, the offbeat jazzy experiments of Chicago's Icy Demons, and the Balkans' own Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar.

Finally, on Sunday, the epic bill expands to include a quintet of impressive relative newcomers: folkie Bon Iver, noisemakers Times New Viking, chaos-mongers HEALTH, rhythm-happy Brooklyn duo High Places...

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With Liars, the Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Battles, the Hives

They've been holding the Quart Festival in Kristiansand, Norway every year since the mid 1990s, and, by now, they've gotten pretty damn good at it. Sure, the lovely lowlands locale helps, and there's also a skateboarding contest, but the talent pool's the real draw.

This year, Quart's bottled up a heady brew for its fest, taking place July 2-5. Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Liars, the Streets, Justice, Battles, Dizzee Rascal, Gnarls Barkley, Spank Rock, Holy Fuck, Trentemøller, Future of the Left, Asobi Seksu, Kool Keith, Lykke Li, I'm From Barcelona, Audion, Shining, Edan and Dagha, the Hives, Saul Williams, Anti-Flag, Parts and Labor, Röyksopp, UNKLE, O'Death, Datarock, Kate Nash, Young Knives, Digitalism, and more will all take the stage. As will Kings of both Convenience and Leon.

Just don't hold Jason Mraz's presence against them.