The three-day festival features music by heavy metal, alternative rock and hip-hop bands.

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Other big acts include pop star Lady Gaga, the punk rock band Green Day, the alternative rock band from Canada called Arcade Fire and the nineteen eighties techno-rock band Devo.

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alternative rock act Silversun Pickups; and British pop duo The Ting Tings.

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The only relatively new artists to successfully cross over from the rock and alternative rock charts to the Hot 100 have been Mumford and Sons and Foster the People, and the ubiquitous genre-buster Adele has gone the other direction.

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Six in ten women say that a recommendation from a spouse or partner is a deciding factor when making major purchases, according to a survey, taken among more than 13, 000 listeners of Rock, Alternative, Classic Rock, and Sports radio stations, that was conceived by research and consulting firm Jacobs Media.

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Other British successes included Mumford and Sons who topped the rock, alternative and folk album artist categories, as well as scoring the honour in each of the genres for their album Babel.

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