The Governors Ball—taking place at Randalls IslandJune 23 and 24—has added another headliner to its lineup, which is already led by the likes of Passion Pit, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Kid Cudi, the recently alt-rock-water-testing rapper from Chicago, will play on Saturday, which will also have sets by Santigold, Special Disco Version (aka James Murphy and Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem), and Penguin Prison. Full day-by-day lineup below.

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Bryan Horowitz

Kelly Clarkson plays Jones Beach Theater on August 21 and PNC Bank Arts Center on August 26.

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County—and there's a bit of a youthquake going on, especially when you compare the roster to last year's nostalgia-choked lineup.

Oh, sure, there's looking back to be had—you can remember the '70s with the ocean-loving Stevie Nicks, the '80s with Def Leppard, the '90s with an alt-rock-stuffed package tour that has both Sugar Ray and the Gin Blossoms on its bill, or the '00s at the still-moshing Warped Tour—but Drake is headlining both venues, Wiz Khalifa is bringing Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q to Jones Beach, and Big Time Rush will try to prove to the kids that it's important to cultivate some hoome-grown boy bands. And Kelly Clarkson, who, despite her curious decision to tour with the soggy blankets in the Fray, always puts on a great show, and she's playing both venues as well. Tickets for many of these concerts are on sale now; check Live Nation's official site for details. Full lineup below.

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Eddie Austin

Screaming Females.

The music portion of the Northside Festival—the North Brooklyn celebration of music, art, film, and (in a nod to Brooklyn's many small businesses) entrepreneurship—will take place at various venues throughout Kings County from June 14 to 17. Participating venues include the usual Brooklyn rock suspects as well as Williamsburg Park, a former industrial lot on N. Kent Avenue where this summer's waterfront concerts will take place.

The Wu-Tang Clan's GZA, who announced the fest yesterday with Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz, will perform Liquid Swords with the sprawling, genre-bending Latin orchestra Grupo Fantasma. Other bands that have so far been announced—Northside organizers claim there will be more than 300 in total—below.

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Bennett Sell-Kline for ElectricZooFestival.com

The Electric Zoo, the annual summer-closing EDM fest now in its fourth year, will take place August 31 and September 1 and 2, and the first batch of performers has been announced. The weekend will be headlined by Swedish House Mafioso Axwell (who'll be headlining the Hammerstein Ballroom for part two of his Cosmic Opera series), French beatmaker David Guetta, and Tiësto; someone who's only currently known as an "eXtra SpEcIal KiLLeR guest" was also touted in the press release. (If you can figure out the riddle (the answer: this guy), you obviously played the Jumble at some point in your life. Or the double l in "killer" leapt out at you too.) Tickets are on sale now; the currently announced lineup below.

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The Black Keys.

The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg are set to headline the brand-new New York area music festival Catalpa NYC, which is scheduled to take place at Randalls Island July 28 and 29. Tickets are on sale now and just under $100, with VIP packages starting at $239.99 (a ferry to and from Randall's Island costs $35). Putting on a festival in this area has been tricky work in recent years—remember Escape To New York and MTK?—and I wonder how the relatively new, Dublin-based promotion company Frisky will make its offerings stand out in a market that's crowded not just with a full complement of club shows, but with free concerts in many of the city's open-air spaces. Will non-musical attractions like Frisky's Inflatable Church Of Sham Marriages ("to ensure that any sudden urges for marriage proposals (sham or legitimate) during Catalpa can be dealt with on the spot!") or a reggae stage co-sponsored by High Times be enough to get people to pay up?

Below, the lineup, which according to the site seems to be currently dominated by dudes looking ponderous while wearing large glasses:

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The rumor earlier this year that CBGB, the storied Bowery punk club shuttered a few years back in order to make room for a store hawking overpriced menswear and vinyl, would be returning to the city in some form has apparently come closer to actually becoming true. Bryan Kuntz over at This Ain't The Summer Of Love (found via EV Grieve) visited the bygone venue's still-kicking official site and found an announcement for a festival—with "music, food, conference, [and] drink"—branded with the CBGB logo and scheduled for July 4-8. Other details—lineups, venues, cost, number of conference panels that will look wistfully back on The Good Old Days—are scant, but there is a link to CBGB Facebook page and another where interested bands can apply for consideration via the talent broker Sonicbids. That link elaborates a bit more on the festival's aims:

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This morning the organizers of Great GoogaMooga—the "amusement park of food and drink" set to take place in Prospect Park on May 19 and 20—announced the first chunk of the food lineup for the festival, and not to kill a cliché or anything, but it looks like the park's greenery will be transformed into a garden of culinary delights for the weekend. The weekend—to which admission is free, but ticketed—will host some 75 food vendors (organized into pavilions like Hamageddon and the UrBARN), 35 brewers, 30 wineries, and 20 musical performances by still-to-be-named acts. (Perhaps Coolio, whose YouTube channel will be represented, will break into song at one point?)

Those who feel like their festival experience isn't real unless they pony up some cash for it can buy tickets to the VIP iteration, "ExtraMooga," which will be held in a wooded section of the park and have its own slew of entertainments, including a DJ set by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and a "performance" by culinary enfant terrible and sorely missed presence on Top Chef Anthony Bourdain. The current lineup of participating restaurants, many of which are Voice-critic-approved, below.

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This year's installment of the New York City Popfest—the annual celebration of twee music from all around the world—will take place during the festival-stuffed weekend of May 17 to 20, and those people who consider themselves connoiseurs of jangly, wordy, hooky songs will have much to love about the lineup, which contains both stalwarts of the genre (the UK act Comet Gain; the wry Welsh band the Pooh Sticks) and newer acts operating in the indiepop idiom (the heartbreaking British act Allo Darlin', the New York girl-powerpop act Habibi). Full (annotated!) lineup below.

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This morning, Radiohead announced more tour dates, and the British band has finally filled in the New York City area on its 2012 map; they'll perform at the Prudential Center in Newark on May 31 and June 1. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, March 8 via W.A.S.T.E., while the public will get its hands on them on Saturday, March 10.

Our sister paper, the Miami New Times, attended last week's tour kickoff; the set list drew chiefly from Radiohead's 2011 album The King Of Limbs, although the band also debuted two songs and played the 1998 song "Meeting In The Aisle" (from the Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP) in concert for the first time. Video of that performance below.

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On some levels, it's a shame that Versus's reunion in 2009 wasn't met with the same level of enthusiasm as the reconvening of their more famous Amerindie peers. But it's also understandable. For one, if there's such a thing as "lunchpail indie rock"—the sort of workmanlike no-frills stuff that encapsulates the sound of those times without really defining it—then Versus was most definitely its epitome. While they were very good at what they did, what they did wasn't the type of thing to inspire mass hysteria of the "OMG PAVEMENT!!11!" variety.

That said, a better reason for the lack of noise made by Versus's return to active duty is that they never actually stopped being Versus. They just stopped being Versus on a regular basis, instead spending the years between 2000's Hurrah and 2010's On The Ones And Threes sporadically playing out as a unit while working on their own seperate projects. It also helps that Threes didn't sound like a typical reunion album, but instead more like the record they would've made if they hadn't gone into semi-hiberation for nearly a decade. In case you're new to what these fine folks have to offer, and you want to prepare yourself for the group's headlining show Saturday at Cake Shop, here are some highlights (in chronological order) from Versus's voluminous discography.

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