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Autumn is barely here, but promoters and fans alike are already thinking ahead to next year's festival line-up. 

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has moved up by two weeks, now scheduled for April 17-19. The event will remain at Indio, California's Empire Polo Field and acts will be announced early next year.

It also appears that the dates for 2009's Bonnaroo have been leaked. Looks like it will go down on June 11-14 in Manchester, Tennessee. 

We want Stevie Wonder to headline the 'Roo and My Bloody Valentine at Coachella. What about you?

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Paul McCartney takes some stabs at his ex-wife -- succubus Heather Mills -- on a new track called "Nothing Too Much, Just Out of Sight." The song is part of an upcoming album by the Fireman, Sir Paul's low-key project with musician and producer Youth. (They released two ambient, electronic albums in the Nineties.) 

Sample lyrics:

“The last thing you do was to try and betray me/ In new morning light/ I’ll never forget it/ And that’s just outta sight.”

“You have money/ And no manners.”

He should've nailed her harder than that! She did rob him of more than $100,000,000. Thankfully,the song is pretty rad. Check it out below.

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This is our new favorite song, "Listening Man,"  from Britain's The Bees. 

Check out the video. The cut is off their latest album, Octopus. For more info click here.

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Dear lord, you've finally answered our prayers.

Forty years after he recorded his masterpiece, Van Morrison has announced he will play Astral Weeks -- IN IT'S ENTIRETY -- at Los Angeles'  Hollywood Bowl on November 7th and 8th. Each show will have two sets: the first will span Morrison's career, and the second will showcase Astral Weeks, top to bottom.

"This is a welcomed opportunity for me to perform these songs the way I originally intended them to be," Morrison said. "In the '60s and '70s the record companies did not support the music, so I never got to take these songs on tour. These songs are as timeless and fresh right now as the day they were written and I am happy about taking them to the Hollywood Bowl."

Really blowing our minds is that during the Astral Weeks portion of the concerts, Morrison will be joined by those who helped him create the masterpiece, including Jay Berliner on guitar and Richard Davis on bass! 

Tickets for the event range from $75 to $255, and are available through Ticketmaster beginning October 5. For additional info, click here. 

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Here in the S.S., any news of smoking a joint is music to our ears, but this just makes us sick to our stomachs.

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The Killers will be the musical guest (opposite actress Anne Hathaway) for this week's Saturday Night Live, playing their new single, "Humans," off the upcoming album, Day & Age (out November 25). 

In case you missed it, check out the Smoking Section's interview with Brandon Flowers to read what he said about Day & Age, and why it's like "looking at Sam's Town from Mars."

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Phish are back! After a five year hiatus, the jam-giants have booked three shows at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia (on sale October 18), and the band plans on gigging more in 2009.

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Showing his support for Democratic nominee Barack Obama, Jay-Z will perform two free shows in important swing states this weekend. On October 4, he'll play Detroit's Cobo Arena, followed by a Sunday performance in Miami. Tickets for the free events are available at Obama's local campaign quarters in those areas. For more info, click here.