One of Hungary’s oldest and most famous hip-hop acts, Animal Cannibals, is set to play Sziget 2012.

The information is confirmed on their official website, along with a few other dates.

Animal Cannibals have been around for quite some time, as the band has started in 1989.

Here’s a very catchy song by them that we found on their Facebook page.

Thanks to the German Sziget board for finding the info.

Some important names for VOLT Festival have been officially announced today. VOLT Festival will take place in Sopron, between 27-30 July.

We’re telling you this because artists playing VOLT usually don’t play Sziget.

Leading the list are Iggy & The Stooges, followed by Snow Patrol and Lost Prophets.

Then, there’s Children of Bodom, Katy B and Hadouken!.

Skrillex was announced a while ago.

MTV Live HD will be broadcasting some Sziget Festival 2011 gigs, in case you want to remember the wonderful Sziget mood.

Included so far are Sziget Festival performances from White Lies, La Roux, Interpol, as well as Kasabian (pictured).

If you are lucky enough to live in a country in which MTV Live HD is available – you can check out the list of countries here – you can enjoy some of last year’s performances again.

According to the schedule (PDF file), things will start off this Sunday with White Lies, at 22:00 CET.

Also, you will be able to see La Roux (on February 12), Interpol (February 19) and Kasabian (February 26th), according to the Spanish Canal+ website listing the schedule.

(Thanks a lot, Mörkö!)

Don’t be scared if things look a bit strange when visiting Sziget News these days. We’re doing some design changes, which should be done in a couple of days.

Feel free to tell us whether you like what’s going on

Don’t worry, though. Even if we’re changing our looks, we promise to keep the bad habits…

No new names, just a date confirmation. The Subways will play Sziget on August 12, according to their official Facebook page.

That means we already have two names for Sunday – The Subways and Mando Diao.

UPDATE: this was confirmed by the official German Sziget Facebook, so it went from self-confirmed to official.

Another band has self-confirmed its presence at Sziget Festival 2012.

German indie/post-punk band In Golden Tears say on their Facebook page that they will play Sziget 2012 on August 7.

(thanks, mellowmaniac!)

You can check out a few versions of their track Urban Emotions, as well as a rough demo of Unique on that same Facebook page.

More interesting schedule news.

Mando Diao will play Sziget 2012 on August 12, according to their official site (thanks, mellowmaniac)

As always, all of the schedule info is posted in our Sziget 2012 line up page.

UPDATE: Hurts will also play August 8, as stated on their Facebook. (thanks, dragonfly) They will play the Main Stage, as the organizers said in the announcement.

A quick piece of information from the official Placebo site. Placebo is set to play Sziget Festival 2012 on August 8.

Placebo were officially announced playing Sziget 2012 today.

The first big Sziget 2012 lineup announcement is here, as promised yesterday.

And just as we told you a few days ago, it starts with Placebo.

Then, we have Hurts (pictured below), back after their performance at Sziget 2011, The Horrors, and The Subways (back, just like Placebo, after performing at Sziget in 2009).

In the official announcement, Karoly Gerendai, Sziget’s main organizer, says that “there’s a lot more to come.”

There’s also a trailer for the lineup so far. Watch it in the rest of this post.

A very interesting hint (thanks for siganlling it, mellowmaniac) on the Sziget Germany Facebook page. It says:

Da ist was im Busch, morgen gibt’s Bestätigungen!

Which, roughly translated, means that there’s something cooking tomorrow. This means a lineup announcement (probably Placebo, as we told you a few days ago), but could Bush also be a possibility?  (that seems like a reference, but we’ll see tomorrow). What’s certain is that they’re ending their US and Canada tour at the end of June. They’ve released a new album a few months ago, after all…