The music festival season is upon us! Line-ups, dates and venues are continuously being announced for this summer's crop of festivals. Here's the lowdown on some of the biggest American musical smorgasbords:

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In what's sure to be the hottest concert ticket of the summer, multi-platinum rock acts Slipknot and Disturbed will lead the first-ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, a riotous road show packed with some of hard music's most influential artists and a plethora of the genre's most exciting young voices.

Gwar rocker Oderus Urungus is changing direction - he's signed up to write an advice column for six months. Urungus - real name Dave Brockie - is passing on his wisdom to readers of website AnarchyMusic.net.

...During July, co-founder and original Pink Floyd guitarist/singer Syd Barrett, who had spent the better part of the last 35 years as a hermit, died at age 60 from diabetic complications... Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo pretty much confirms rumors that the band is done, "unless," he says, "it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."

DevilDriver returns from a successful European tour with Lamb Of God. Now hits the road in the US with In Flames, Zao and label mates Trivium. "Being on the road is where we like to be," says lead singer Dez Fafara. "The European tour was killer.