The Walkmen News

Local festivals are all over the metro area this weekend. Fort Worth Music Festival , Wildflower! Festiva l in Richardson, and Taste Addison will all be presenting musical acts this weekend.

The Vaccines played their biggest headline show to date last night , headlining the O2 Arena in London.

Over the next few months, we will wring our hands endlessly over what deserves the title of 2013's Song of the Summer.

As mentioned , the Northside Festival is returning to various Brooklyn venues from June 13 - 16 , and like in past years , they'll be doing two free shows in McCarren Park as part of the festival.

Earlier in the month when we announced that The Walkmen are playing the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Stage at McCarren Park as part of the Northside Festival, we promised you that wasn't all we had in store for the weekend.

LIVERPOOL'S biggest music festival bursts into life on Thursday as 360 or more acts from all corners of the globe take over the city.

Good things come to those who wait. And the waiting is over as the line up has been announced for this year's spectacular 10th Birthday Electric Picnic with Bjork, Fatboy Slim and Arctic Monkeys named as the headline acts.

Today is Record Store Day, the annual show for shops that, post-HMV, are the last bastion for furtive nimble-fingered folk.