Musical festival season is officially over, and it was a great one, wasn’t The season of music festivals, which began last spring with Coachella and was followed by a string of others with kooky names like Bonnaroo and Lollapallooza, has come to a close with Austin City Limits

Beyonce has just announced plans for a 2009 tour in support of her upcoming yet-to-be-titled album, which hits stores Nov 18

Billy Corgan and company will celebrate their 20th anniversary of the Smashing Pumpkins will a fall tour that kicks off in Nov 1 in Cleveland

Beck kicked off his seven-week North American tour at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada The show opened with “Devil’s Haircut” and continued on a 23-song set that weaved tracks like “Chemtrails” and “Gamma Ray” from his most recent album, the Danger Mouse-produced Modern Guilt, in with old favorites like “Loser,” the song perhaps most responsible for introducing the world to the quirky singer and his Beat-like poetry (“In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey/Butane in my veins and I’m out to cut the junkie”)