While indie and dance fans may have become a little disillusioned by festival announcements of late,  many of us were thrilled to wake up this Monday morning to the news that not one, two, but a TOTAL ONSLAUGHT of incredible artists will be heading down these parts for 2012 festival season.

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

It’s all about the girls at this year’s St Jerome’s Laneway festival with the ridiculously talented Laura Marling, Anna Calvi and Feist all heading up the bill. Then there’s Chairlift, Austra,  Active Child, Pajama Club (feat. Sharon and Neill Finn), The Horrors, The Drums, SBTRKT and much, much more… see below and head to their Facebook page for more. Laneway will tour Australia in February 2012.

Future Music Festival

Swedish House Mafia have confirmed all Australia tour rumours as true and will be headlining Future alongside Fatboy Slim, Tinie Tempah, Paul Van Dyk, The Wombats, Alex Metric, Die Antwoord, Jessie J, SBTRKT, Aphex Twin, James Murphy and Pat Mahony (LCD Soundsystem) and wayyyyy more. Future will tour the country in March 2012. Read the rest of the lineup here.

Hmmm… wonder if Tinie and SHM will join forces at Future?

Ahh… British comedian Peter Serafinowicz strikes again.

Last time we featured Serafinowicz’s work, he gave us with the greatest demonic pop show in history with Hot Chip’s I Feel Better video. Now he makes a surprisingly good Rocky Balboa (with a futuristic twist) in Alex Metric and Steve Angello’s video for Open Your Eyes. If the vocals are distantly familiar, it’s because they’re usually backed by the lackadaisical muted guitar work of The Stone Roses (ie, it’s Ian Brown).

If you’re not fully across the track’s creators… Steve Angello is a highly regarded DJ and Producer worldwide with underground productions, but who has recently gone on to scale giddying heights as part of Swedish House Mafia. Alex Metric’s glitchy 80s synth-pop productions have been devastating dancefloors worldwide since his 2008 Deadly On A Mission EP. Alex has just remixed Depeche Mode’s iconic Personal Jesus for their Remixes 2:81-11 album (out tomorrow!). You can follow Alex and Steve on respectively on twitter at @alexmetric and @steveangello

Open Your Eyes has been released as a digital single and a remix bundle. Alex’s similarly titled album featuring original material, remixes and productions will be out later this year.