The full Primavera Sound Festival lineup has been announced and includes a second announced date by the recently reunited Postal Service and the third 2013 date for Phoenix.

Christopher Owens announced he’s leaving his band, Girls, via a series of tweets this morning

[insertReverbPhoto id="94064" photo="2"] San Francisco’s Girls gave an appreciative, sizable crowd a solid night of music at the Bluebird last week. Photo by Joe McCabe. “I don’t wanna cry my whole life through. I wanna do some laughing too. So come on and laugh with me.” That mildly overdramatic nugget is from Girls’ “Hellhole Ratrace,” one of the greatest songs of 2009. The song is a melodic masterwork, an exploration of greasy, Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired rock and grandiose, Phil Spector-aping pop. View a full [...]