As far as first artist announcements go, the first reveal for the 2013 Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit is a pretty huge one. The three day festival taking place in Asheville, North Carolina, celebrates innovative music and arts in presenting a series of panels, interactive experiences, installations and exhibitions as well as a run of live music performances from some of the best in the genre.

The line up for the 2013 Outside Lands Festival has been announced, with the San Franciscan audience set to get amongst some awesome sets courtesy of Paul McCartney, a reformed Nine Inch Nails and more. From August 9-11, Golden Gate Park will become a music lover's haven; tickets are on sale now from sfoutsidelands.com/tickets, with a portion of ticket sales going toward San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department.

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The Perth Big Day Out returned to its rightful home at the Claremont Showgrounds this year, but not without controversy. Council threats seemed a daily occurrence leading up to the festival, and compromise was inevitable for the event to go ahead. The resultant early end time of 10pm didn’t put any music lovers off though, as 35,000 were in attendance, and the diverse and distinguished lineup made every minute count. A great day for sun, sound and short shorts.

On the cusp of an expansive canyon in the middle of Washington state, the AU review found itself perched cliff-side once more for our second year of coverage from the 2012 Sasquatch! Music Festival.