The Austin City Limits festival has anounced its lineup. Jack White, the Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Iggy and the Stooges, Crystal Castles, Zola Jesus, Alabama Shakes, Andrew Bird, A-Trak, Black Lips, Afghan Whigs, the Roots, M83, Willis Earl Beal, the Shins, First Aid Kit, the War on Drugs, M. Ward, Die Antwoord, Weezer, Metric, Tennis, Tegan and Sara, Florence and the Machine, Big K.R.I.T., Stars, Los Campesinos!, and many more will perform in Zilker Park October 12-14.

Click here for the full line-up, and watch the Black Keys performing "Thickfreakness" at ACL 2011 below. 

Update: It had been widely reported that Bon Iver was part of ACL's bill as revealed via the festival's scratch and win lottery, whereby cards deposited around Austin from May 18-21 unveiled acts prior to the full announcement. However, Bon Iver was not part of today's line-up, and his appearance at the festival remains unconfirmed for now. 

Update 9:48 a.m.: Austin City Limits has confirmed that the lottery card announcing Bon Iver was fake. 

WHAT: HoZac Blackout Fest
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Roky Erickson, Redd Kross, Davila 666, Human Eye, Bare Mutants, Rayon Beach, Fungi Girls, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Ketamines, White Mystery

WHAT: Electric Daisy Carnival New York
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ
WHO: Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buuren, Tinie Tempah, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Richie Hawtin, Borgore, Art Department

WHAT: London Calling Fest
WHEN: May 18-19
WHERE: Amsterdam, Netherlands
WHO: Grimes, Japandroids, Austra, King Krule, Willis Earl Beal, Porcelain Raft, Au Palais, Spector, Outfit, Trust, Evian Christ

WHAT: Piknic
WHEN: May 20-September 30 (Sundays)
WHERE: Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Canada
WHO: Machinedrum, Benoit & Sergio, Jacques Greene, Wolf + Lamb, Art Department,  Lunice, Manygances, Nina Kraviz, the Mole

Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". In this week's installment, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized answers fan questions, Killer Mike talks about his new album R.A.P. Music, and Liars give us a sneak preview of theirs. 

Subscribe to Pitchfork's YouTube channel and stay tuned every Friday for new episodes of "Pitchfork Weekly." Other new Pitchfork.tv episodes on our YouTube channel this week included the Danny Brown documentary "Detroit State of Mind", the full Doug Aitken "SONG 1" Happening, a "+1" with St. Vincent, a "60 Seconds Left" with Tennis, and a music video by Royal Headache ("Girls"). Pitchfork.tv also posted a Yours Truly performance by Willis Earl Beal.

Below the video is a round-up of highlights from this week at Pitchfork.

This week in Pitchfork News:

• We said goodbye to disco queen Donna Summer.
• Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," passed away.
• Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. & the MG's and the Blues Brothers, passed away.
• Celso Chavez, guitarist for 1990s alt-rock band Possum Dixon, passed away. 
• Animal Collective announced a new album, Centipede Hz.
• The Pitchfork-presented Douglas Aitken "SONG 1" Happening took place at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; check out photo and video.
• Jay-Z supports Obama's stance on marriage equality. He plans to

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Singer also admits he wanted to win the show, but ultimately 'ruined' his chances

WHAT: Liverpool Sound City
WHEN: May 17-19
WHERE: Liverpool, England
WHO: Bear in Heaven, Tim Hecker, Charli XCX, Willis Earl Beal, Niki & the Dove, Pond, Forest Swords, Slow Club, Bleached, White Arrows, Electric Guest, White Denim, more

WHAT: Tom Tom Founders Festival
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: Charlottesville, VA 
WHO: The Walkmen, Here We Go Magic, Hospitality, Those Darlins, Cotton Jones, Spinto Band, more

WHAT: Girls Got Rhythm Fest
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: St. Paul, MN
WHO: Ronnie Spector, Pierced Arrows, White Mystery, the 5.6.7.8's, more

WHAT: The Playground Fest
WHEN: May 12
WHERE: London, England
WHO: A-Trak, SebastiAn, Porter Robinson, Borgore, Dillon Francis, more 

As 300 acts prepare to descend on Brighton for this year's festival, we gather some of your top-notch recommendations. Plus, listen to a Spotify playlist of hotly tipped bands

Ahead of this weekend's Great Escape festival in Brighton, we asked you to recommend who to see from a lineup of more than 300 artists.

Kitty Empire recommended the Black Belles, Spoek Mathambo, Devin, Django Django and Willis Earl Beal. Here are some more recommendations from @guardianmusic followers.

Tall Ships: Pav Tav 1am Sat, The Hope 10.15pm Sat

@patrick_kane_
"Tall Ships â€' debut album released later this year and one of the most exciting and energetic acts at the moment"

Curxes: Riki Tik 1.30am Sat

@BMWavesBlog
"Curxes â€' Because they're an eye candy boy /girl synth duo sounding like robots f***ing to the sound of Siouxsie & Depeche"

Ben Salter: The Hub 4pm Thu, Unitarian Church 8.15pm Sat

@artschoolbop
"Ben Salter â€' because his song The Coward is the best song I've heard all year!"

Cloud Nothings: Above Audio 9.45pm Thur

@cBaylizz
"Cloud Nothings â€' because Attack on Memory blew me away (and continues to do so)"

Nils Frahm: St Mary's Church 8pm Fri

@Bronte_M
"Nils Frahm. Felt was my album of 2011 and he's playing in a stunning church"

For a comprehensive Great Escape primer, the organisers have put together this substantial Spotify playlist:

• Which Great Escape acts are most worth seeing? Let us know below.

The Guardian is a...

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Click on the poster to hear bands appearing at Brighton's new music festival â€' and let us know who's worth checking out

The Great Escape, Brighton's new music festival, is just a week away. Now in its seventh year, the festival sees more than 300 bands play across 30 venues in the city from 10â€'12 May.

In last Sunday's Observer Kitty Empire picked five bands who are worth a look:

The Black Belles

"A garage band with a penchant for the sepulchral ... shrouded in mystery."

Spoek Mathambo

"The South African is one of a number of artists in recent years who are exploding (white, western, blinkered) cultural assumptions about what non-white, non-western music can be."

Devin

"His core allegiance is to the excitable Jerry Lee Lewis, but you can hear the sneer of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground in the raucous tumble of Devin's debut album."

Django Django

"Imagine Franz Ferdinand playing Animal Collective, or Hot Chip covering the Beach Boys with burbles."

Willis Earl Beal

"He sounds like something between a self-consciously naive DIY lo-fi outsider artist and an avant-garde diddley bow player."

• Who else will be worth seeing? Via the interactive poster above (or below) you can check out lots of the listed bands and artists. Have a listen, and leave your Great Escape recommendations in the comment thread below.

Full-sized poster here.

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WHAT: +(PLUS) Fest
WHEN: May 4
WHERE: Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Chapel Hill, Columbia, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC
WHO: Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, MSTRKRFT, Big Freedia, Rob Garza (Thievery Corporation), the Hood Internet, more

WHAT: The Great Escape Festival
WHEN: May 10-12
WHERE: Brighton, England 
WHO: Shabazz Palaces, Perfume Genius, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Alabama Shakes, Willis Earl Beal, Kwes, Com Truise, YACHT, the Twilight Sad, Bass Drum of Death, Django Django, Ben Kweller, Porcelain Raft, Gang Colours, Stay+, Keep Shelly in Athens, Milagres, Willy Mason, Pond, Jam City, more

WHAT: Los Lobos Festival
WHEN: May 5
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Neko Case, X, Alejandro Escovedo, Los Lobos, more

WHAT: Sonar Sao Paulo
WHEN: May 11-12
WHERE: Sao Paulo, Brazil
WHO: Kraftwerk, Cee Lo Green, James Blake, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Justice, DOOM, Rustie, John Talabot, Austra, Mogwai, Cut Chemist, Chromeo, Squarepusher, Modeselektor, James Pants, KTL, more 

The lineup has been revealed for this year's SummerStage, the season-long concert series that takes place across various New York City parks. Highlights from the free outdoor portion include Bobby Womack, Willis Earl Beal, Kurt Vile, Alabama Shakes, and Amadou & Mariam in Central Park, EPMD, Talib Kweli's Idle Warship, and DJ Scratch at Von King Park in Brooklyn, AraabMuzik and Das Racist at Red Hook Park in Brooklyn, and many, many more. There will also be tons of comedians performing, including John Hodgman, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, and Kristen Schaal in Central Park, and Hannibal Buress in Red Hook Park. 

The Milk, Ren Harvieu and over 35 others also join the Brighton bash's bill