* LCD Soundsystem and Justice will headline the 2025 edition of the M3F Fest on March 7-8 at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix. The event has raised $6 million for a variety of charities since 2004 and will once again donate 100% of its proceeds to educational, arts and environmental causes.
The lineup also features Sylvan Esso, Alvvays, BADBADNOTGOOD, BAYNK, Beach Weather, Braxe + Falcon, Confidence Man, Dev Lemons, Hippie Sabotage, Luna Luna, Mindchatter, Ricky Montgomery, Slow Pulp, Summer Salt, Eggy and a DJ set from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Click here for more information and tickets.
Justice is also one of the headliners for the CRSSD Festival at Waterfront Park in San Diego on March 1-2, which boast sets from Jungle, Ben UFO, FISHER, Kavinsky, LP Giobbi, Monolink, Sasha and John Digweed and SG Lewis.
* Fresh off a spectacular middle-of-the-night performance at Knockdown Center in Queens, N.Y., last Saturday (Nov. 9), during which his live drum machine manipulation dropped jaws, techno legend Jeff Mills has a busy few months ahead. He’ll play DJ sets this weekend in Sao Paulo (Nov. 16) and Buenos Aires (Nov. 17-18), which will be followed by a host of European dates through the end of the year and a New Year’s Eve show at Input in Barcelona.
Sprinkled throughout the itinerary are two performances (Nov. 30 in Tallinn, Estonia and Dec. 13 in Antwerp) with Tomorrow Comes the Harvest, Mills’ group with Indian tabla player Prabhu Edouard and Guyanese keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary.
Mills’ next release is with his electro jazz-fusion band Spiral Deluxe, The Love Pretender, due in February. It was recorded in Tokyo and features guitar work by French musician Sylvain Luc, who died in March.
* The first round of artists have been announced for the long-running Noise Pop festival, which will take place Feb. 20-March 2 at numerous San Francisco venues. They include American Football, Soccer Mommy, Lankum, Mercury Rev, Cymande, Les Savy Fav, Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Chat Pile, Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn and Video Age.
* Veteran U.K. rock outfit Doves will play their first hometown gig in Manchester in 15 years as part of a 2025 U.K. tour, which begins Feb. 25 in Glasgow. The activity comes in support of their new album, Constellations for the Lonely, which will be released Feb. 15. The first single, “Renegade,” is out now.
Doves frontman Jimi Goodwin participated in the album sessions but will not be touring with the band for the time being in order to address ongoing mental health challenges. Doves will instead by led by brothers Andy and Jez Williams, who normally handle live vocals on just a handful of tracks. The group will warm up with three intimate shows later this month in Stoke (Nov. 27), Birkenhead (Nov. 28) and Hebden Bridge (Nov. 29).
* Interpol starts a 20th anniversary tour in support of their album Antics on Monday (Nov. 18) at Chicago’s Salt Shed, which will be augmented with the Dec. 6 release of the just-announced album Live at Third Man Records. Taped June 13 at the Jack White-owned imprint’s Blue Room in Nashville, the set was cut directly to acetate with no overdubs on a 1955 Scully lathe that originally came from King Records in Cincinnati. Check out “Say Hello to the Angles” from those sessions here.