One Nation Under Gaud -- that was Lady Gaga's declaration of independence as her Monster Ball Tour re-opened in a packed Montreal Bell Centre on Monday night.

Ah, Glastonbury: 200,000 people amassed together on Worthy Farm in Pilton, England for what has become the biggest, muddiest, loudest festival in the world.

New York City's 80,000 square-foot Milk Studios was transformed into a playground for music and art lovers on Saturday, as M.I.A., Interpol, Neon Indian, Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, the Rapture, Mark Ronson, and others performed at the 12-hour kickoff party for the Creators Project, a new global arts venture from VICE and Intel.

To call this weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival a "rave" is akin to calling the World Cup just a few friendly soccer games between nations.

They'd have been hard-pressed to get into most bars in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn last night, looking like a collection of barefoot, teenaged hippies up to no good.

Call him, for Monday night at least, the worst-kept secret in showbiz.

Monday night, the swanky new Los Angeles installation of NYC's Soho House social club played host to an intimate listening party for the self-titled debut solo album of TV on the Radio guitarist-producer Dave Sitek, aka Maximum Balloon.

Flanked by two oversized papier mache aliens and a smoke machine billowing out the occasional plume, Nathan Williams and his new bandmates kicked off their tour at Lee's Palace in Toronto with a raucous combination of familiar songs and material from their forthcoming Wavves album King Of The Beach (out August 3rd via Fat Possum).