Moon Block Party has just announced the lineup for this year's Desert Daze Music & Arts Festival in Sunset Ranch (near Mecca, CA) on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Acclaimed “Touareg” band Tinariwen and former Amoeba Home Grown artists Warpaint headline the festival, with Chelsea Wolfe, Fool's Gold, Mini Mansions, Night Beats, The Entrance Band and many more performing.

Tickets are on sale now via Brown Paper Tickets and “the fair-trade ticketing company” will donate a portion of the proceeds from the festival to the charity of the ticket purchaser’s choice. You can buy general admission passes ($35 + $2.22 service fee) or there are three additional ticket options that include camping (tent, lakeside or RV) for a bit more. Buy tickets here.

Keep an eye on Moon Block Party's Facebook page for more updates and ticket giveaways in the coming weeks.

 

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As you may have already heard, FYF Fest announced its lineup for this year’s fest, which takes place Sept. 1st and 2nd at LA State Historic Park in Downtown Los Angeles, and it’s incredible: M83, Dinosaur Jr., Atlas Sound, Beirut, Chromatics, Liars, The Vaselines and Yeasayer, just to name a few. That’s all not to mention local heroes like The Soft Pack, FIDLAR, Warpaint, The Growlers, Nick Waterhouse and a whole lot more.
 
Amoeba Hollywood will be selling tickets starting Friday, June 22nd, at 5 p.m. (tickets are $77, and service fees are only $4 when you buy at Amoeba). Amoeba will have ONLY general admission weekend passes (not VIP tix). There’s a limited number of tickets and they’re only available at that price for a limited time, so get them quickly.
 
LINEUP:

AA Bondy
Aesop Rock
Against Me!
American Nightmare
Atlas Sound
Paul Banks (Interpol)
Baroness
Beirut
Black Dice
Black Mountain
Ceremony
Chairlift
Chromatics
Cloud Nothings
Converge
Cursive
Dam Funk
Desaparecidos
Devin
Dinosaur Jr.
DJ Coco (Primavera Sound)
DJ Harvey
Doldrums
Father John Misty
FIDLAR
Fucked Up
Future Islands
Givers
Gold Panda
Health
Hot Snakes
I Break Horses
James Blake
John Maus
Joyce Manor
King Khan & the Shrines
Kishi Bashi
Liars
Lightning Bolt
M83
Moonface
Nick Waterhouse
Nite Jewel
PAPA
Purity Ring
Quicksand
Redd Kross
Refused
Sandro Perri
Simian Mobile Disco (Live)
Sleigh Bells
Tanlines
The Allah La's
The Field
The Growlers
The Men
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Soft Pack
The Suicide of Western Culture
The Vaselines
Tiger & Woods
Turbonegro
Twin Shadow
Two Gallants
Tycho
Warpaint
White Arrows
White Fence
Wild Flag
Wild Nothing
Yeasayer

LA's own Warpaint recently stopped in the studios at the UK's Guardian and played "Warpaint," explaining how they wrote it! They also answer the question we've all been wondering about -- why does the song have the same name as the band? You can watch the beautiful performance and find out right here.