Lollapalooza, taking place Aug. 1-3 in Chicago's Grant Park, has made a spectacular re-emergence over the last few years. By positing itself as a singular event and working in conjunction with the city of Chicago, it's engendered a sense of stability and community that's hard for other hodge-podge rivals to compete with.

As we reported yesterday, the VH1 Rock Honors gala in celebration of the Who brought out a -- well -- who's who of rock- and-general Hollywood elite.

Recently, SPIN.com ran an article in reaction to the snatching of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone, pondering which other deceased icons should be protecting their burial assets.

Toning your summer beach bod just got a lot more danceable, thanks to the fresh partnership between DJ A-Trak and a certain global sneaker giant. The Nike+ Original Run franchise has welcomed a new 45-minute composition, Running Man, from the Montreal turntablist, out now through iTunes.

Who? It's taken nearly a decade, a few DIY EPs and a sojourn through Spanish label Acuarela Discos, but genre-redefiners APSE have finally found a stable stateside home and belated buzz for their ambient-cum-tribal voodoo vibeology.

As reported on SPIN.com two days ago, September 30 sees the release of Dungen's 4, the fourth studio LP and second Kemado effort for everyone's favorite Swedish purveyors of throwback sounds.