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Belgium may be one of Europe's smaller sovereignties, but from the scope of the Les Ardentes Festival in Liege, you'd never know.

Les Ardentes' third installment takes place July 10-13 in Liege's Parc Astrid, and among the almost 80 artists playing are Spiritualized, M.I.A., Dizzee Rascal, Liars, the Streets, CSS, the Mars Volta, the Cool Kids, the Dandy Warhols, Matthew Dear & Ryan Elliott, the Kills, Gui Boratto, Nada Surf, Michael Mayer, Booka Shade, Sage Francis, Apparat, DeVotchKa, Siouxsie, Trentemøller, Cypress Hill, Sebastien Tellier, the Presets, Justus Kohncke, Prins Thomas, Andrew Weatherall, the Cinematic Orchestra, M.A.N.D.Y., Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators, and Yelle.