LCD Soundsystem and Air are the first confirmed acts set to play next year’s Sonar Festival in Spain.

The three-day bash is set to take place in both Barcelona and A Coruña from June 17-19, 2010.

More acts are set to be announced in the coming months.

For more information go to Sonar.es.

Well its now officially here, Coachella 2010 is upon us.

Organizers for the three-day festival have officially confirmed the dates for next years bash.

The festival will return once again to Indio, California for three-nights of music from April 16-18, 2010.

That’s not all, organizers have released the first few sets of three-day passes for the event.

With almost six months since Coachella 2009, organizers of the annual music festival have announced dates for Coachella 2010.

The three-day festival will take place April 16-18, 2010.

This year’s festival saw performances by Paul McCartney, The Killers, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Beastie Boys are the latest addition to San Diego’s forthcoming Street Scene festival.

The two-day bash is set to take place August 28 and 29 in downtown San Diego.

This is the 25th year the festival takes place.

The Beastie Boys join previously announced acts including Of Montreal, Dead Weather, and Black Eyed Peas.

For more information head over to Street-Scene.com.

Pete Doherty has been confirmed as the headliner for the forthcoming Love Music Hate Racism festival.

The event, which is set to take place at Stoke’s Britannia stadium on May 30, will also see performances by Reverend and the Makers, and Kelly Rowland.

Doherty’s Babyshambles‘ bandmate Drew McConnell is also set to take part in the event performing with his side-project band Helsinki.

For more information or to purchase tickets go to lovemusichateracism.com.

The line-up for the forthcoming 2009 Austin City Limits festival has been released.

Among the highlights for the three-day event are the Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Beastie Boys, and The Dead Weather.

Also set for the festival, which will take place in Austin, TX from October 2-4, are Lily Allen, Sonic Youth, and The Decemberists.

To check out the entire line-up go to aclfestival.com.

Move over Detroit, look out AIG, it looks like the U.S. is now going to try to save music.

In an amendment hidden deep inside the bailout bill, a U.S. senator, whom has yet to be revealed, added an amendment to save troubled music festivals.

The amendment would open a fund that would allow small and medium sized music festivals throughout the U.S. who are on the verge of canceling their events, as well as those who already canceled, from continuing.

A part of the amendment reads:

“In these troubled times one of the greatest gifts to states are large events (i.e. festival) which have a great positive impact to the local economy, including creating short term jobs as well as raising money from the fees organizers pay to the city to hold these events. Allowing these events to die out would further hurt local economies”

No word on how much money would be set up to help out these festival organizers.

More info as we receive it.

Bloc Party, CSS, Black Kids, and The Pretenders are all set for ‘Wreck The Halls‘.

The holiday concert will take place December 10 at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia and is being sponsored by LA radio station Indie 103.1.

Tickets for the special holiday concert are now available via Ticketmaster.

Still more than a half-year away and Coachella has already unveiled the dates for their 2009 festival. The three-day event will take place April 17-19, two weeks earlier than this year’s festival. The line-up for the event, which will once again take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, will be announced early next year. Coachella 2008 saw performances by Jack Johnson, Prince, Death Cab For Cutie, MGMT and many more.