Full Moogfest lineup announced with Hot Chip, Panda Bear, Pretty Lights, more

The full lineup of Moogfest in Asheville on Oct. 29-31 has been announced and it's managed to get even better. Additions to the original batch of bands include Girl Talk, Panda Bear, EL-P, Pretty Lights, Hot Chip, Dan Deacon and more. Check out the full lineup below broken down by day.

The event will span three venues, the Asheville Civic Center Arena, Thomas Wolfe Auditorium and The Orange Peel.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 13 at 12 p.m. here. A three-day pass is $149.50 and tickets for individual days are $75. There will also be VIP passes for $349.50 that include priority access to venues, merchandise, access to lounges and other perks. You can see more info on that here.

Stream Vampire Weekend's new album 'Contra'

Vampire Weekend's highly anticipated sophomore album titled Contra is due out next Tuesday, January 12, but you can stream it in it's entirety right now. Head on over to the band's MySpace page to give it a listen.

Unfortunately, the band's upcoming North American tours do not stop in the Triangle, but for those willing to make the trip west, they will be playing The Orange Peel in Asheville on Tuesday, April 6. Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday, January 8 at noon for $25 here.

Check out the complete North American tour schedule below.

Smashing Pumpkins tickets re-announced

If you're like us and spent a good part of yesterday afternoon wondering if all the Smashing Pumpkins tickets for the band's residency at The Orange Peel were sold out, don't worry. Thanks to some technical difficulties, not many people were able to purchase tickets.

Apparently, putting nine shows on sale all at once isn't as easy as the folks at Ticketweb thought. According to The Orange Peel there was "a major crash with the ticketing services server."

Tickets will now be sold through Ticketmaster beginning TONIGHT at 7 p.m., so get your clicking fingers ready. And your wallet ready, of course, for Ticketmaster's exorbitant fees. (Just kidding. Ticketmaster has agreed to charge the same fees that Ticketweb would have. One redemption point to Ticketmaster.)

One positive thing to note is that all tickets will only be available through will call, so anyone hoping to scalp tickets is going to have a rougher time than usual. Check here for some FAQs on the shows.

So are any of you planning to trek out to Asheville for one (or several) of these shows?

UPDATE: By our rough estimate, all nine shows sold out in 5-10 minutes. Were any of you successful in snagging tickets?

Smashing Pumpkins set-up residency in Asheville

The newly "reformed" Smashing Pumpkins will play a string of residency gigs at of all places, The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. The new Pumpkins tour will include original members Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin but will not include James Iha or D'Arcy Wretzky.

The Pumpkins will play nine shows at The Orange Peel (June 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 2, 3 and 5). After the residency, the band will play Al Gore's LiveEarth event in East Rutherford, NJ before heading to San Francisco for an eight-show residency at The Fillmore.

The Smashing Pumpkins new album Zeitgeist will be out on July 10. Tickets for The Orange Peel residency go on sale May 20 at 1:00 PM via ticketweb.com. Tickets will only be $20. Not bad.