Named after synth pioneer Dr. Robert Moog, Moogfest gathers some of the biggest and most exciting names in electronic music and beyond. In addition to the copious amounts of music being offered, there will also be panel discussions, Q&As, interactive experiences with Moog instruments, art installations, and film screenings.

Some ALARM favorites include Amon Tobin, Battles, Flying Lotus, Holy Fuck, Tobacco, The Flaming Lips, Brandt Brauer Frick, St. Vincent, M83, Causing a Tiger, and Shahzad Ismaily. A full lineup and schedule can be found here.

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Notable bands scheduled to perform include: Trash Talk, Parts & Labor, Davila 666, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Doomtree crew, Talkdemonic, Mexicans with Guns, and Kylesa. Seeing so many concerts, screenings, and panels normally comes at a pretty steep price, but we've teamed up with CMJ to give away two five-day passes. Total retail value of one pass alone is $495 and will give its bearer access to any event, provided that it's not sold out or at capacity.

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Santa Fe-based multi-instrumentalist Zach Condon and his merry band of Balkan popsters just released their third full-length, The Rip Tide. While it touches on familiar Beirut elements — lounge-y crooning, a bevy of brass — it's also more straightforwardly Western, having cut back on the bells and whistles of Eastern European folk.

Joining Condon and co. at the Congress is French indie-pop artist Laetitia Sadier. Sadier will be playing material from her 2010 solo debut, The Trip, and La Piscine, a recently released collaborative album featuring Rebecca Gates and Richard Swift, among other artists.

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The Twelves rose to worldwide prominence on the strength of its remix work, producing both official and unofficial jams for diverse acts like M.I.A. and Fleet Foxes. Joining João Miguel and Luciano Oliveira in creating "Mayhem at The Mid" is Jeremy Greenspan, founding member of Junior Boys, who will be spinning a DJ set. We recently linked up with Greenspan for an installment of our weekly Guest Playlist column (see here).

Tickets are $10, but you can win a pair right here. Fill out the form below, and you'll be entered to win.

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The lineup comprises a worldly bunch. Swedes Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow will be playing a headlining DJ set, with support from Australian house duo Bag Raiders, UK-based DJ Jackmaster, California-based The M Machine, and Chicago's own DJ Trentino.

Yes, it's a Sunday night, and yes, the poster says the music ends at 4 AM. If you have work early Monday morning, we recommend that you get "sick." So throw caution to the wind, and fill out the form below to enter to win.

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Among the bands scheduled to propagate the mayhem are New York-based electro-pop outfit Penguin Prison and local electro-rock trio Hey Champ. Also set to play are dance-inducing acts like Jessica 6, Broken Disco 1980, and Midnight Conspiracy.

Regardless of whether you actually attend Pitchfork, you can still attend the questionably official after-party by winning a pair of tickets. We're giving away a whopping five pairs in total. Fill out the form below, and you'll be entered to win.

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If you don't want to be one of the only people not going to North Coast (and/or you like winning stuff for the cost of free), fill out the form below. You'll be entered to win one general-admission three-day pass, good for, you guessed it, all three days of what promises to be an onslaught of bass and late-summer fun. If you don't win, stay tuned to our website; we just might have a few more of these bad boys to give away. You can also buy a three-day pass for the entirely reasonable price of $95 right here.

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Blue Sky Black Death: "And Stars, Ringed"

Hip-hop production duo Blue Sky Black Death comprises Kingston (Kingston Maguire) and Young God (Ian Taggart). Its first release in 2006, A Heap of Broken Images, was an ambitious double-disc album with lyrical contributions from Rob Sonic, Mike Ladd, and members of Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, and Army of the Pharaohs.

Though the producers frequently collaborate with rappers, they've also released numerous, more experimental instrumentals and teamed with Yes Alexander of The Casual Lust to release Slow Burning Lights, a record that's more indie pop than hip hop, in 2008. Its newest album, Noir, is 14 tracks of grand-scale, instrumental electronica, full of soulful vocal samples, dramatic and twinkling piano, and washes of sweeping, emotional synthesizer. Imagine your favorite hip-hop production run through a mellow, shoegaze-pop filter.

Fill out the form below, and you'll be entered to win a CD copy of Noir, courtesy of Fake Four Inc.

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The Echocentrics: "Esclavo Y Amo" (feat. Natalia Clavier)

The man behind The Echocentrics is Austin-based, two-time Grammy-nominated producer Adrian Quesada. Quesada has previously worked in bands like Ocote Soul Sounds and Brownout. On The Echocentrics' new album, Sunshadows, he teamed with Argentinean singer Natalia Clavier and Brazilian musician Tita Lima to craft a psychedelic, Latin-funk album that oozes laid-back grooves. Ample use of a Farfisa synthesizer and electric harpsichord take these cross-cultural jams into far-flung hinterlands.

If you're into The Echocentrics' worldly melange, enter to win a copy of Sunshadows, courtesy of Ubiquity, by filling out the form below.

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