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Vampire Weekend are set to DJ a club night in London tomorrow (May 10).

So do Band of Horses, Stars, Fuck Buttons, St. Vincent, Hercules and Love Affair

The Accelerator festival will rev through Stockholm, Sweden once again in 2008. Just like last year, Accelerator has an ace lineup, including sets from Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Hercules and Love Affair, Battles, Stars, Deerhunter, El Perro del Mar, St. Vincent, Fuck Buttons, Black Kids, MGMT, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Those Dancing Days, Foals, the Teenagers, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, and Duffy.

Accelerator 2008 will take place in Stockholm's München-Bryggeriet (translation: München Brewery) on June 24 and 25.

Aaaand they're off!

Today at the Camber Sands Holiday Centre near Rye, England, the opening chords of the ATP vs. Pitchfork Festival will ring out over the English countryside, bringing bands and fans together for an unforgettable weekend of rocking the hell out.

Of course, the lineup should be well familiar to any and all attendees/envious homebodies. But here are the set times, for your scheduling pleasure:

Friday, May 9

Main Stage

4:30 PM The Clientele
6:00 PM Vampire Weekend
7:30 PM Sebadoh
9:00 PM Ween

Second Stage

4:15 PM Jay Reatard
5:30 PM Man Man
6:45 PM Car Sick Cars
8:00 PM Shit and Shine
9:15 PM Fuck Buttons
10:45 PM Redd Kross
12:30 AM Glass Candy + DJs
1:30 AM Hot Chip DJs

Saturday, May 10

Main Stage

3:45 PM Bon Iver
5:00 PM Yeasayer
6:30 PM Los Campesinos!
8:00 PM The Black Angels
9:30 PM Les Savy Fav
11:00 PM Hot Chip

Second Stage

2:00 PM Even
3:15 PM Times New Viking
4:30 PM Born Ruffians
6:00 PM Howlin Rain
7:30 PM Dirty Projectors
9:00 PM Deerhunter
10:30 PM Black Lips
12:30 AM Various Production DJs
2:00 AM DJs

Sunday, May 11

Main Stage

2:00 PM Jens Lekman
3:30 PM A Place to Bury Strangers
5:00 PM Black Mountain
6:30 PM Of Montreal
8:00 PM The Hold Steady
9:30 PM Girls Against Boys
11:00 PM Harmonia

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Vampire Weekend, Mates Of State, Crystal Castles and Gogol Bordello are among the acts scheduled to play this year's Popped! Festival in Philadelphia.

No more Roots, but they've got Slick Rick, Crystal Castles, Mates of State, Mr. Lif, and more

The second installment of POPPED!, Philadelphia's multi-venue, indie-centric music festival, will take place June 20-22...without the Roots. Yes, as previously reported, ?uestlove and co. were supposed to curate POPPED! as well as perform their album Things Fall Apart in its entirety at the festival. But something happened (organizers wouldn't comment on exactly what), and now the Roots are busy with their own jam, the Roots Picnic.

However, POPPED! is still on and poppin'. On Friday Jun 20, Slick Rick joins a full band for a little storytellin' session at the Trocadero. Saturday on the Drexel University campus, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Mates of State, Gogol Bordello, Mr. Lif, the Ting Tings, and Hoots & Hellmouth will keep POPPED! fizzin'. And Sunday finds Popped! at World Café Live, hosting performances from Daniel Johnston (backed by Philly locals the Capitol Years), O'Death, Takka Takka, Sam Champion, Tickley Feather, and more.

Peter Morén introduces us to even more Swedes we hadn't heard of, gets a little jealous of Vampire Weekend, and longs for his chance to spin his favorite tunes on the radio. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]

Vampire Weekend, Justice, TV On The Radio and Band Of Horses are among the bands set to perform at this year's Monolith Festival.

With Neko Case, Band of Horses, CSS, Cut Copy, Blitzen Trapper

Because, after all, the U.S. is truly wanting for a good-sized outdoor music festival this summer, here comes the 2008 Monolith Festival, invading Morrison, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater September 13-14.

And, as befits a fest named after a really big thing that rocks, well, check out this bill:

Justice, TV on the Radio, Neko Case, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, CSS, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Cut Copy, Blitzen Trapper, Holy Fuck, A Place to Bury Strangers, Tokyo Police Club, Akron/Family, John Vanderslice, Colorodo local favorites DeVotchKa, Del the Funky Homosapien, Tilly and the Wall, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, the Kills, Superdrag, the Presets, Silversun Pickups, White Denim, the Cribs, the Ting Tings, the Night Marchers, those Hood Internet jokers, and others form the building blocks of this monolith.

Vampire Weekend have rescheduled their forthcoming live date at the Manchester Academy 2, originally set to take place on May 8.