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Over two dozen students have tested positive for coronavirus from the University of Texas after going to Mexico for spring break.

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The Strokes have announced new tour dates around the release of The New Abnormal, their first album in seven years. Following a series of shows this month (including U.S. stops featuring support from Alvvays and King Princess), they’ll play in New Orleans, Austin, and Houston in May. Check out their itinerary below and find tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Tove Lo has announced a tour. The worldwide dates span through August. They also include a new run of shows in the United States, beginning in Austin in May and wrapping up the following month in Cleveland. Scroll down to see her itinerary, and purchase tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Following her first appearance at Coachella in April, Jessie Reyez will embark on her spring headlining tour in Europe. The Before Love Came to Kill Us tour will make stops in Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and more before Reyez makes her way to North America.

Ian Bonhôte, a double BAFTA nominee for the feature documentary “McQueen,” has attached as the director on narrative feature “Faithfull,” about the singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull. Altitude has acquired worldwide sales rights.

On NBC's The Good Place, the actual Good Place (heaven, if you will), occupants can live out all their dreams. They can travel anywhere, they can eat anything, it's what makes the dead person happy. For Eleanor (Kristen Bell), there's endless margaritas and a bedpan used by Stone Cold Steve Austin in a WWE fight. For Kristen Bell? Well, her Good Place is a little different.

British R&Beats synth duo Snakehips is coming Stateside for a spring club tour that'll have you falling in love on the dance floor.It's going to be a nine-night blitz from Los Angeles to Austin and everything in between, bangin' the duo's smooth jams including "Don't Leave," "All My Friends" with Tinashe and Chance The Rapper and "Cruel" with Zayn.To get you in the mood, Snakehips flipped its hit "Money On Me" with Anderson .Paak into a beach-side disco bop steamy enough to make sundresses work

Kesha will hit the road this spring with special guest Big Freedia for the North American High Road tour. The tour will kick off on April 23 in Sugar Land, Texas at Smart Financial Centre and continue through Austin, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Chicago and more.The High Road tour will be in support of the Jan.