Arcade Fire haven’t been much of a secret since about 2005, but if you go by recent events, Win Butler’s crew are basically full-fledged super stars. They’re nominated for a Grammy, headlining Coachella, and can call U2 tour mates.

Arcade Fire will open for U2 at their July 30th concert in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The concert will take place at Magnetic Hill, which was built for Pope John Paul II’s papal mass in 1984 and has since hosted the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, and Eagles, among others. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, February 8th.

The two outfits have appeared together on stage once before. In 2006, Arcade Fire opened three shows for U2′s “Vertigo Tour” and joined them in Montreal for a performance of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. Watch the clip below.

According to U2’s manager Paul McGuinness, Moncton will mark the final date of the U2 360° Tour in North America. Also below, you can find both bands’ respective touring itineraries for 2011.

Arcade Fire 2011 Tour Dates:
04/16 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/24 – Chicago, IL @ UIC Pavilion #
04/25 – Chicago, IL @ UIC Pavilion #
05/06 – New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz Fest
06/17 – Scheeßel, DE @ Hurricane Festival
06/18 – Neuhausen ob Eck, DE @ Southside Festival
06/21 – Zagreb, HR @ T Mobile InMusic Festival
06/22 – Wiesen, AT @ Festivalgelände
06/26 – Luxembourg @ Rock A Field
06/30 – London, UK @ Hyde Park * ^ $
07/02 – Arras, FR @ Main Square Festival
07/03 – Belfort, FR @ Les Eurockeenes
07/05 – Milan, IT @ Milano Jazzin’ Festival
07/07 – Novi Sad, SB @ Exit Festival
07/09 – Lucca, IT @ Summer Festival
07/17 – Benicasim, ES @ Benicasim Festival
07/30 – Moncton, NB @ Magnetic Hill !

# = w/ The National
* = w/ Mumford & Sons
& = w/ Beirut
$ = w/ Vaccines
! = w/ U2

It’s been a hot minute (aka three years) since we heard Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince unite for some gritty new tunes. But on April 5th, The Kills will return with their proper follow-up to 2008′s Midnight Boom with the Domino Records release of Blood Pressures. The album is said to combine the band’s “street hassle swagger and sass” with an “added depth and thoughtfulness”. Below, you can hear an early taste in the form of lead single “Satellite”.

While the return of Rothbury remains to be seen, there will be at least one jam-oriented music festival held over 4th of July weekend 2011. Bands That Jam reports that Phish will host a three-day festival over the holiday weekend at the raceway in Watkins Glen, New York. An official announcement is still forthcoming, but Bands That Jam also reports that tickets will be priced at $200 and much like their 2009 festival in Idio, California, the weekend will see the band perform eight different sets.

Announced via Twitter just hours before showtime, Dave Grol and Co. played a 26-song set at the 300-capacity Velvet Jones night club. According to Antiquet‘s Johnny Firecloud, who also has a must-read review of the show, the set saw the band begin by playing all 11 tracks off their new LP in sequential order before dedicating the second half of the show to the rest of their discography. Below, you can find the complete setlist; presumably the first 11 tracks — which are italicized — are the same as the album’s setlist. So there you go.

Also below, we have video of one new track, “These Days”, which Firecloud described as “an accusatory song that demands a little empathy.” Update: A YouTube user named squaresoflight has uploaded a 10-minute highlights clip featuring snippets of several news songs, including “Bridge Burning”, “Rope”, “White Limo”, “These Days”, “Matter of Time”, “Miss the Misery”, and “I Should Have Known”.

“These Days”

Highlights clip

Setlist:
Bridge Burning
Rope
Dear Rosemary
White Limo
Arlandria
These Days
Back & Forth
Matter of Time
Miss the Misery
I Shoulda Know
Walk
All My Life
Times Like These
Generator
My Hero
Learn to Fly
Watershed
Up in Arms
Big Me
Enough Space
Monkeywrench
Hey JP
Everlong
—
Pretender
I’ll Stick Around
This is a Call

Set to take place from April 2-3 in Santiago’s Parque O’Higgins, the bill also includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Deftones, Fatboy Slim, The Flaming Lips, The National, Empire of the Sun, Cat Power, Cypress Hill, 30 Seconds to Mars, 311, Sublime with Rome, Ben Harper, Cold War Kids, CSS, Devendra Banhart, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, Ghostland Observatory, Fischerspooner, The Drums, Datarock, Boys Noize, and Bomba Estero.

The festival will also feature a number of Latin American outfits. You can find the complete bill at our Festival Outlook and/or on the poster below.

One-day, two-day, and VIP passes are available via the festival’s website.

NEW Singles:

• “The Roller” by Beady Eye
• “My Father’s Eyes” by Ben + Vesper
• “Zion Station” by Break Science
• “Catcher in the Rye” by Datarock
• “Should Be Gone” by The Feelies
• “Lovers Lane” by Hunx and His Punx
• “Too Beautiful to Work” by The Luyas
• “Bugs” by O’Death
• “You Can Make The Sunrise” by Sleepy Rebels

COVER Me Songs:

• “Mary” (Patty Griffin Cover) by Allison Crowe
• “Over the Rainbow” (Wizard of Oz Cover) by Armen at the Bazaar
• “Running Up that Hill” (Kate Bush Cover) by Bank Heist
• “Oliver’s Army” (Elvis Costello Cover) by Bill Janovitz (of Buffalo Tom)
• “Flirted with You All My Life” (Vic Chesnutt Cover) by Button Eyes
• “Hold It Against Me” (Britney Spears Cover) by Chester See
• “Mystery” (The Wipers Cover) by Eagulls
• “Watussi” (Harmonias Cover) by Elias Krantz
• “I Found a Reason” (Velvet Underground Cover) by The Futurebirds
• “Until Then” (Broadcast Cover) by Orcas

Remixes GALORE:

• “Clamor” (Prefuse 73 Remix) by Balmorhea
• “Hold It Against Me” (DJ Geometrix Remix) by Britney Spears
• “Marching Song” (Snorkel Remix) by Esben & the Witch
• “Frequency” (Moonraker Bootleg Mix) by Michael Meds
• “If You Want It” (Marsheaux Remix) by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• “Tell ‘Em” (Diplo Remix) by Sleigh Bells
• “Darlin” (Jimmy Edgar Remix) by Tahiti 80
• “Wind Loops” (Bearclaw’s Cicada Remix) by Teebs

Something to CHECK OUT:

• “I Am the Assassin” by Dag för Dag
• “Bloom” by Duchess Leo
• “Hit After Hit” by Earth Girl Helen Brown
• “Well OK, Honey” by Jenny O.
• “The Understanding” by Jones Street Station
• “Winter Loves Summer Sun” by L’Altra
• “Clap” (feat. Faith Evans) by Saigon
• “Peripheral Visionaries” by Young Galaxy

mp3 support via BrooklynVegan, Cover Me, My Old Kentucky Blog, Pitchfork, Spinner, and Stereogum

A long-overdue album no more, the release of Panda Bear’s Tomboy is quickly approaching. In fact, the album’s release date has even been pushed up one week, to April 12th, so that it will be available for Record Store Day (April 16). While you wait, try to make something of Tomboy‘s artwork, which was designed by Scott Mou. Really can’t wait to see this in t-shirt form on Bedford Ave.

“For touring with us, we tour because we want to play. We don’t tour to support a record. We don’t tour to get our name out there. We tour because we like to play. To tour when your heart isn’t in it would be a real bad mistake for us. 2008 was a long hard year on the road and we’re just not feeling it right now. We go with our instinct. Our two biggest selling records ever, we didn’t tour on them. So maybe some of that magic will rub off on this one too.”

– R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills elaborates on the recent revelation that the band has no plans to tour behind their forthcoming album, Collapse Into Now (via DC101). It’s not the end of the world as we know it though; R.E.M. has offered not one, not two, not three, not four, but five album tracks to hold you over until the album’s March 8th release date. (See what I did just there?)

Update: Per Stereogum, watch R.E.M. perform “Oh My Heart” in the studio. So they can still play live, they just don’t want to.

“I think we’re just lucky that Radiohead are having some free time at the moment. And Thom was just hanging out. He enjoyed himself. And there’s a new Radiohead album if you’re wondering. Just done I believe,” Peterson said during his Worldwide Awards highlights show on BBC 1. Listen to the clip here (the part about Radiohead begins at 1:26).

Much like every piece of Radiohead news, nothing is confirmed until an album shows up on what.CD or Jonny Greenwood issues a public proclamation. Either way, take some time to daydream.

Hat tip to At Ease for the link…

Bad news: There’s no ATP New York in 2011. Good news: There will be an ATP New Jersey and holy shit is the lineup awesome.

After bringing tantalizing lineups to Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, New York for the last three years, All Tomorrow’s Parties is moving the festivities to Asbury Park, New Jersey for 2011 and its inaugural bill includes two of music’s most sought over acts — reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum and UK trip-hop icons Portishead.

The three-day “I’ll Be Your Mirror” event will take place from September 30th – October 2nd at the Convention Hall and the adjacent Paramount Theater. Mangum’s performance, his first large public show of Neutral Milk Hotel songs in over a decade, will take place on the 30th at the 1,300-capacity Paramout, while Portishead will both headline and curate the festival’s other two days.

Other confirmed acts include Shellac, Chavez, Cults, and The Album Leaf, with some other 30 acts still to be confirmed. A comedy stage, cinema, DJs, and other activities are also promised.

Tickets for the festival will go on sale Friday, January 28th via the festival’s website. Mangum’s Friday night performance will be limited to those who buy three-day passes (priced at $249), but he’ll also play a second, nonfestival appearance on Oct. 3, also at the Paramount, tickets for which are $35.

Field day and single day tickets (neither of which include Mangum’s show) will also be available.