Each week we will compile the latest news regarding festivals (like interviews, recaps, and lineup additions), and squeeze it down into a handy reference that you can tuck into your front shirt pocket.

News:

– The LA rave scene received a blow when festival organizers announced this year’s edition of HARD LA would be canceled.

– The maiden voyage of Nateva Music and Camping Festival went off without a hitch despite being in the upper right hard-to-reach corner of nowhere.

– Almost three months before its set to launch, Austin City Limits shared its 2010 schedule.

– Consequence of Sound is offering free passes to the Lollapalooza and North Coast music festival, but there’s a catch.

– Video of the currently-disbanded Japanese Motors giving an interview at Scion Garage Fest surfaced.

Lineup Additions:

– Austin City Limits Music Festival: TV Torso and Warpaint

– Treasure Island Music Festival : Official lineup released including LCD Soundsystem, The National, Belle & Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, and many more

– FYF Fest: Official lineup released including Panda Bear, The Rapture, Sleep, Dead Man’s Bones, and many more

– Pygmalion Music Festival: Of Montreal, Cut Chemist, Janelle Monae, Light Pollution, Turbo Fruits

– MoogFest: Massive Attack, MGMT, Thievery Corporation

– Matador at 21: Liz Phair

– Epicenter: Big Boi

– Big Day Out: Arcade Fire (rumored)

– Green River Festival: Donna the Buffalo, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

– Mile High Music Festival: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake Bobby Long, The Chain Gang of 1974, The Epilogues, Thile

– Pop Montreal: Menomena, Scoutt Niblett, Solange Knowles, The xx, Timber Timbre, Tom Tom Club

– Head Jamz Music Festival: Official lineup released including Emmit-Nershi Band, Dumpstaphunk, New Mastersounds, and many more

– Hopscotch Festival: Schedule announced

– Imagine Concert: Drake (rumored), Rush (rumored)

– Electric Zoo: Boris, Cosmic Gate, Moby (DJ set), Sander Van Doorn, Savoy

– Monster Massive: Official lineup released including Moby, Felix da Housecat, The Glitch Mob, and many more

– North Coast Music Festival: Claude Von Stroke, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Holy Ghost!, Lupe Fiasco, The New Deal, The New Mastersounds

– Riot Fest: Official lineup released including Bad Religion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Circle Jerks, and many more.

– Capitol Hill Block Party: Fruit Bats

– Soundwave Festival: Less Than Jake, Veara

– Rifflandia Festival: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

As always, you can keep track of all the latest festival news and rumors on our Festival Outlook.

Flight of the Conchords:

What: Dates for California

When: June – September

Tixs: $27.50 – $57.50

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Jack Johnson:

What: North American tour

When: July – October

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Lady Gaga:

What: Dates for Montreal, QC; Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV; Edmonton, AB; St. Paul, MN; Washington, DC; & Charlottesville, SC

When: June – September

Tixs: Price varies depending on date

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Massive Attack:

What: Dates for Los Angeles, CA

When: May 20th

Tixs: $43.50 – $48.50

Buy: Ticketmaster.com at 10:00 AM Local Time

Mile High Music Festival:

What: Two-day festival featuring Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, My Morning Jacket, and more

When: August 14-15

Tixs: $150

Buy: Tickethorse.com at 10:00 AM Local Time

Neil Young:

What: Dates for Albany, NY & Buffalo, NY

When: May

Tixs: $85 – $245

Buy: Ticketmaster.com at 10:00 AM Local Time

Rihanna w/ Ke$ha & Nicki Mina:

What: North American tour

When: July – August

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Yes & Peter Frampton:

What: North American tour

When: June – July

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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What are we missing? Let us know in the comments below!!!

This year’s Mile High is set to take place from August 14-15, nearly a month later than the two previous incarnations of the festival. Yet the change seems to have allowed the two-day to round together its biggest bill to date, as the likes of Jack Johnson, My Morning Jacket, Phoenix, Weezer, the legendary Jimmy Cliff, and Mile High’s first ever headliner, Dave Matthews Band, will head this year’s edition.

Other acts of note include Steve Miller Band, Drive-By Truckers, Bassnectar, Train, Atmosphere, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, Ozomatli, Railroad Earth, DJ Z-Trip, Keller Williams, and Rusted Root.

In all, more than 40 bands will take to the fields surrounding Dick’s Sporting Goods Park during the August weekend. Additional acts will be announced in the weeks ahead; you can find an up-to-date listing of confirmed acts here.

Two-day passes, currently priced at $150 (they will raise to $175 and then $200 as allotments sell out), will go on sale starting Saturday, April 10th via Tickethorse.com.

This weekend the Pitchfork Music Festival will return to Chicago for its fourth go around, while Denver’s Mile High Music Festival will offer its sophomore edition. And awesomely enough, both festivals will be streaming the festivities live on the web.

Pitchfork’s webcast, available via pitchforkmusicfestival.com, is jammed pack and will feature performances from many of the bigger names set to appear, including The Flaming Lips, The National, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill and Grizzly Bear.

Mile High Music Festival will be using iClips.net to provide its virtual view. The broadcast schedule is still forthcoming, but with the likes of Widespread Panic, Tool, The Black Keys, Thievery Corporation and Gogol Bordello set scheduled perform, you’ll probably be able to find something worth watching.

Pitchfork Music Festival Webcast Schedule:
FRIDAY, JULY 17TH
05:00 – Tortoise
06:10 – Yo La Tengo
07:20 – The Jesus Lizard
08:40 – Built To Spill

SATURDAY JULY 18TH
01:00 – Cymbals Eat Guitars
01:45 – Plants and Animals
02:30 – Fucked Up
03:20 – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
04:15 – Final Fantasy
05:15 – Yeasayer
07:25 – Beirut
08:40 – The National

SUNDAY JULY 19TH
01:00 – The Mae Shi
01:45 – Frightened Rabbit
02:30 – Blitzen Trapper
03:20 – Pharoahe Monch
04:15 – The Thermals
05:15 – The Walkmen
06:15 – M83
07:25 – Grizzly Bear
08:40 – The Flaming Lips

Ok, so maybe the former isn’t something to write home about, but some would argue the latter is. After all, just take one look at this year’s recently unveiled lineup: Tool, two nights of Widespread Panic, The Fray, and Incubus head Mile High ’09, while Ben Harper & Relentless7, Gov’t Mule, The Black Keys, Ani DiFranco, and just about every band starting with the letter “G” make up other acts of note set to appear at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park from July 18-19.

All in all, Mile High’s 2009 lineup looks something like this:

3OH!3, Ani DiFranco, The Band Of Heathens, Ben Harper & Relentless7, The Black Keys, Buddy Guy, Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam, Dead Confederate, Electric Touch, Erin McCarley, The Fray, G. Love & Special Sauce, Galactic, Gogol Bordello, Gomez, Gov’t Mule, Guster, The Greyboy Allstars, HoneyHoney, Incubus, India.Arie, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, Joe Pug, John Butler, Lyrics Born, Mat Kearney, Matisyahu, Paolo Nutini, Paper Bird, Railroad Earth, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Rocco DeLuca & The Burden, Set Forth, Tool, The Wailers, Widespread Panic (two nights)

Two-day passes ($162.50 plus service charges) and VIP packages go on sale beginning Friday, April 3rd at 10:00 a.m. via tickethorse.com.