Pitchfork

The Pukkelpop festival is back at it again, and this year's event packs so much music into Kiewit airfield near Hasselt, Belgium from August 14-16, it's enough to make our ears pukkel.

Pukkelpop 2008 hosts sets by everyone from current indie faves to ska/punk/Brit pop titans of yester-decade, including the Flaming Lips, Sigur Rós, Bloc Party, Iron & Wine, Los Campesinos!, Simian Mobile Disco, Yeasayer, Crystal Castles, Mercury Rev, Metallica, Drive-By Truckers, Black Kids, Henry Rollins, Carl Craig, Ricardo Villalobos, Bob Mould Band, Soulwax and 2ManyDJs, Neurosis, Nina Nastasia, Serj Tankian, Holy Fuck, the Killers, the Ocean, Joan as Police Woman, Sons & Daughters, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Alkaline Trio, the Sword, Lightspeed Champion, Two Gallants, Editors, Witchcraft, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, SebastiAn, the Heavy, the Wombats, the Cribs, Dropkick Murphys, Miss Kittin & the Hacker, the Dresden Dolls, Anti-Flag, the Count & Sinden, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, the Subways, Boys Noize, Uffie & Feadz, DJ Mehdi, MxPx, Thrice, Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons (performing in a DJ capacity), and, oh yes, Less Than Jake.