After more than two years on hiatus from playing proper concerts (other than Obama fund-raising gigs), the Arcade Fire have announced their first show.

The band are set to headline this year’s Oxegen Festival in Ireland set to take place July 8-11.

The headlining slot further legitimizes rumors that the band will release a new album in May or June of this year.

The band join previously announced acts including Muse and Jay-Z.

DEVO have been confirmed to play at the forthcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games being held in Vancouver.

The band are set to play a concert as part of the Whistler Victory Ceremonies which will run from February 13-27.

The band’s performance is set to take place at the Whistler Medals Plaza on February 22 and will be televised on NBC.

The Fray and Feist are also set to play the Whistler Victory Ceremonies.

Weezer are celebrating their latest release, ‘Raditude‘, with a free show for one very lucky college.

Weezer have teamed up with T-Mobile and are running a competition to see which college has what it takes to get the band to play their campus.

College students who want the band to play their school should sign up their college on Facebook and encourage others to vote for their school.

The college with the most votes wins!

Soon we will be giving away a copy of Weezer’s new album,’Raditude‘, courtesy of YouCast so stay tuned.

The Dead Weather are set to play a one-off show in New York later this month.

Jack White and co. have announced plans to play Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on November 17.

Tickets for the New York date go on sale Friday (November 13) to the general public but members of Third Man Records music subscription service, The Vault, can purchase tickets starting today at 12pm (EST).

U2’s recent show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California was not only the band’s first show to be streamed live on YouTube, it was the bands biggest U.S. concert ever.

The concert, which took place on October 25, broke the U.S. attendance record for best-attended single concert performance by one headliner.

Over 97,014 fans packed the sold out California venue, reports Billboard.

After less than a week since YouTube live streamed U2’s concert in Pasadena, California we get word that Facebook will do the same with the Foo Fighters.

The popular social network has teamed up with the band to live stream their concert taking place tonight (October 30) at the band’s Studio 606 headquarters in Los Angeles.

Fans who will be watching the live stream can RSVP here.

The concert will begin to stream live tonight at 7pm PST here.

The Decemberists have announced details about their forthcoming special project which they have dubbed, “Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized“.

The live experience will take place October 19 at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles and will feature animated films accompanied by live music from the band.

The animated films have been created by four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria.

Not only are the band set to play an entire set synchronized with the animated films but they are also set to play a second set which will feature new and old material.

Tickets for the special event go on sale today (September 18). Go here to purchase tickets.

Last week we told you about the Arctic Monkeys planned Web Transmission, we can now give you a bit more details.

As we reported, the band are infact previewing material from their forthcoming album, ‘Humbug‘, on the Web Transmission which will debut on Thursday, July 30th at 4:00pm EST.

The transmission will only be streaming for a limited time on Thursday so Arctic Monkeys fans better hurry and catch it.

Fans can sign-up for a reminder email on the band’s website so they wont miss the show.

For more information go to webtransmission.arcticmonkeys.com.

In other Arctic Monkeys news, the band are set to embark on a North American tour on August 1st with a performance at New Jersey’s All Points West Festival.

Manic Street Preachers have announced dates for their first North American tour in more than 10 years.

The jaunt is set to kick off September 21 in Seattle.

The tour is in support of the bands forthcoming new album ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’, due out September 15.

The Arctic Monkeys are set to take part in a Web Transmission on Thursday, July 30 at 9pm.
The Web Transmission is reportedly a half-hour concert where the band are expected to preview material from their forthcoming third album, ‘Humbug‘.

There is as-of-yet no official confirmation as to what the Web Transmission actually is but we are looking into it.

In the meantime the band have posted a teaser video for the upcoming event at webtransmission.arcticmonkeys.com.