Barbra Streisand will make a much anticipated return to her childhood home of Brooklyn, NY, in a rare musical performance this fall.

Streisand will be one of the first performers ever to grace the stage at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which opens its doors on September 28 with a concert from part-owner (and Brooklyn-born) Jay-Z.

Cashing in on Coachella 2012's rampant success, advanced sale tickets for the music and arts festival's 2013 installment were made available a mere month after the California festivities concluded.

"We are excited to announce Coachella 2013 will again be held over two consecutive weekends," boasts the official website of the high profile Coachella Valley festival. The addition of two weekends was new for the festival last year, and something that Coachella producer Goldenvoice chose to continue in 2013 to meet the high demand for tickets. Advanced passes went on sale Thursday, May 17 at 10a.m. PDT, and will be available through the following Thursday, May 24 10p.m. PDT, or until sold out. "Then general sale will happen early next year," the site optimistically notes, so those who missed the first round shouldn't fret.

California Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez is facing a public relations pickle following revelations that he resold 25 wristbands for the always popular Coachella Music Festival.

While Coachella's organizational parent company Goldenvoice outlines on the Coachella website that the festival does not "tolerate scalping of any kind at all," those same rules apparently do not apply to local California politicians. Pérez's campaign spokesman Josh Pulliam told The Desert Sun newspaper that Goldenvoice "specifically approved the campaign purchasing tickets for a campaign fundraiser."

It's a big year for the Material Girl — Madonna recently released a brand new album, "MDNA", and is about to embark on world tour set to begin at the end of May. However, after the April 26 announcement from promoters Live Nation and Shuki Weiss stating that the tour would be delayed two days, critics were left wondering if Madonna's big year is in jeopardy.

According to USA Today the promoters explained that the change of schedule was in response to "production delays." As a result, the tour originally set to begin on May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel, will be postponed until May 31. The delay does not affect any previous ticket sales as all tickets that were sold for the May 29 concert will be honored at the new May 31 date.

The Hopscotch Music Festival, which calls downtown Raleigh, North Carolina home, recently announced the lineup for its 2012 event which runs September 6-8. Thirteen hours after opening, VIP passes to the concert's 15 venues had sold out.

Hosted by North Carolina's alternative newspaper The Independent Weekly, the event founded in 2010 by co-director Greg Lowenhagen and co-director Grayson Currin has grown to feature 175 bands playing in 15 venues.