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Music blogs love to hate Silversun Pickups, brushing them off as a low rent Smashing Pumpkins. Besides the sound (the Pickups sound uncannily like the Pumpkins circa their criminally-underrated b-side collection Pisces Iscariot), there are the matching initials, the sweet-voiced female bass players and the lanky frontmen with similarly metallic-sounding voices. But when they rolled into the Phoenix on Wednesday night for a sold-out show, they proved that anyone dismissing them as such is missing out in a huge way.

The confirmed headliners were announced today for Toronto's second Virgin Festival, happening September 9 and 10, on Olympic Island. The top spots this year go to the (sort of) newly reformed Smashing Pumpkins, who will headline the festival on Day 2, and Iceland's most eccentric citizen, Bjork, who will close Day 1. Other bands announced include The Killers, Interpol, Jamie T., Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, and we're happy to say, Toronto's own Tokyo Police Club! Over the next few months the remaining 30+ acts will be announced once confirmed.