Simpson’s creator Matt Groening is set to curate the first weekend of All Tomorrow’s Parties, May 7-9 2010 at the venerable Butlins resort in Minehill, England. Unlike Pavement, who curate the next weekend, this isn’t Groening’s first rodeo, as he curated the second Stateside ATP in 2003, selecting acts like Cat Power, !!! and Sonic Youth to round out his lineup. ATP, so incestuous. No stranger to musical guests or whats expected at ATP, let’s just hope that Groening pulls out all the stops for the UK installment, including, and believe me our fingers are crossed, Lisa Simpson and Bleeding Gums Murphy performing Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew as part of ATP’s longstanding Don’t Look Back series.

It’s been heavily rumored for months, even before the announcement of the reunion, and it is in fact happening: Pavement will curate All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehill, England in May 14-16 2010. Playing ATP means that the band’s first scheduled shows at Central Park will– surprise, surprise– not be their first shows! Who could’ve seen this coming?! Now the question should be, what’s the likelihood will be that Pavement will play Coachella? Or rather, when will Coachella announce that Pavement is headlining? Maybe they’ll “ruin” Lollapalooza again! All in all, looks like the Spiral Stairs may be too busy booking plane tickets on Orbitz to tour Sri-Lanka in support of his forthcoming The Real Feel. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

Big, rad Bar Mitzvah
Stomach bounce, ears bleed, Black Dice
Bubbles and arcade

Sufjan Stevens

Circulatory System


Amazing dude in the lobby



Black Dice

Wayne Coyne checking out Atlas Sound

Antipop Consortium

No Age chillin

Shellac

Deerhunter


Animal Collective

New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties (Curated by The Flaming Lips & ATP) is happening only 90 minutes away from New York City at Kutsher’s Country Resort in Catskills, NY. It’s all going down next weekend, September 11 – 13. Bars open til 4 am too! Panda Bear will be there, will you?

FRIDAY

Stage 1:
3.15pm-4.15pm : The Drones performing Wait Long By The River…
4.45pm-5.30pm : The Feelies performing Crazy Rhythms
6.00pm-7.00pm : Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs
7.30pm-8.30pm : Suicide performing Suicide (First LP)
9.00pm-9.45pm : Panda Bear
10.15pm-11.15pm : Iron & Wine
11.45pm-1.00am : The Jesus Lizard

Stage 2:

9.00pm-9.30pm : Jon Glaser & Jon Benjamin
9.45pm-10.15pm : Derrick Brown & The Navy Gravy
10.30pm-11.00pm : Eugene Mirman
11.15pm-11.45pm : David Cross

SATURDAY

Stage 1:

1.30pm-2.30pm : Sufjan Stevens
3.00pm-3.45pm : Grouper
4.15pm-5.00pm : Black Dice
5.30pm-6.15pm : Antipop Consortium
6.45pm-7.30pm : El-P
8.00pm-8.45pm : Autolux
9.15pm-10.15pm : Shellac
10.45pm-11.45pm : Deerhunter
12.15am-1.30am : Animal Collective

Stage 2:

2.35pm-3.15pm : Bridezilla
3.45pm-4.30pm : Circulatory System
5.00pm-5.45pm : Atlas Sound
6.15pm-7.00pm : Sleepy Sun
7.30pm-8.15pm : Akron/Family
8.45pm-9.30pm : Dead Meadow
10.00pm-10.45pm : Boss Hog
11.15pm-00.15am : Melvins

SUNDAY

Stage 1:

3.00pm-4.15pm : Boredoms performing 9 Drummer Boadrum
5.15pm-6.15pm : Caribou Vibration Ensemble
6.45pm-7.45pm : Deerhoof with Martha Colburn
8.15pm-9.15pm : Super Furry Animals
9.45pm-10.45pm : Crystal Castles
11.30pm-1.00am : The Flaming Lips

Stage 2:

2.15pm-3.00pm : The Low Lows
4.00pm-4.45pm : Birds Of Avalon
5.15pm-6.00pm : Hopewell
6.30pm-7.15pm : Black Moth Super Rainbow
7.45pm-8.30pm : Menomena
9.15pm-10.00pm : Boris performing Feedbacker
10.30pm-11.30pm : No Age w/ Bob Mould

Stage 3:

All day starting at 12:00pm : Oneida present The Ocropolis
Film schedule TBD
Special guest appearance by Jim Jarmusch presenting MYSTERY TRAIN on Sunday, September 13th.

It’s been 29 years since we first saw those yellow jumpsuits and red hats. It’s been 29 years since we were politely reminded to whip it. Whip it good. And it’s been 19 years since we’ve had our hands on a new LP from new wave icons Devo, but all that is going to change this fall with the release of their first album since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps.

There’s no title, there’s no exact date, there’s no real information other than this is happening. This will be their first new music since their 2007 single “Watch Us Work It,” which at the time was their first new track in 18 years. The five current members of Devo (including co-founders and songwriters Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale) will be making a special stop-off in Austin next week for a SXSW press conference and keynote panel next Thursday, March 19. They wouldn’t come to SXSW just to chat, though, so they’ll be performing a one-night-only gig at Austin Music Hall Friday night.

They’ll head to the UK shortly after that, for a series of shows in May, including the performance of their entire album Q: Are We Not Men, We Are Devo! at London’s Kentish Town Forum. The 1978 album was Devo’s debut, and was produced by Brian Eno. They’ll also be headlining the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Somerset while in the UK, at Butlins Holiday Centre on May 8.

03.18.09 – Dallas, TX (Palladium Ballroom)
03.20.09 – Austin, TX (Austin Music Hall)
05.06.09 – London, UK (Kentish Town Forum)
05.08.09 – Somerset, UK (Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead)

They’re being nice and calling it a postponement, but if you had tickets to see Deerhunter on their month-long tour leading up to the Breeders-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties in May then you’re out of luck.

According to a report on Pitchfork, Bradford Cox and co. will be putting their European tour on hold due to “unspecified health reasons,” with the dates to be rescheduled “soon.” The tour, which was to start in Prague on February 11 and end on March 11 in Dresden, Germany was postponed in it’s entirety, but the band still expects to play the Breeders-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Minehead, England May 15-17.

With no rhyme or reason, our editorial staff chooses the top 10 biggest music-related news stories of 2008. Coming in at #6: the My Bloody Valentine reunion.

Chances are if you’re a moody 30-something who wore slanted bangs before “emo” made it cool and thinks shoegaze was born and died with the release of Loveless, then undoubtedly My Bloody Valentine’s reunion at this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties New York installment was your biggest news story of the year.

First reported on The Daily Swarm, with rumors swirling of the reunion, speculation was they would land at Coachella instead.

Is the long wait finally over? My Bloody Valentine, the legendary sonic sculptors of feedback and tremelo who helped define the shoegaze movement only to disband after releasing just two full length albums, is set to make its first live appearance in more than a decade at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA in April, 2008. According to sources in the United States and the United Kingdom who are familiar with the negotiations, the band is close to signing a deal that will see a reunited My Bloody Valentine headline Coachella, scheduled for April 25–27, before embarking on a world tour sometime later in 2008.

Of course that rumor was kind of correct. The band was reuniting and coming to the States, but as updated by NME, Coachella founder and organizer Paul Tollett explained why the legendary shoegazers will not be performing at the Coachella Festival this year.

“I was hanging out with (My Bloody Valentine frontman) Kevin (Shields) over at the Led Zeppelin (reunion concert in December), and he said it was just too early,” Tollett said. “Coachella’s in April and I don’t think they’ll be ready yet.”

Instead, as The Daily Swarm broke, they would be playing and curating the New York installment of ATP. And all it cost lucky waiting fans was $225. Oh, and another $450 – $1050 for accommodations. Hey, MBV never claimed to be a band of the people.

You can read how it all played out here.

After announcing the initial line-up and dates for next year’s All Tommorow’s Parties New York fest just a few weeks ago, the ATP organizers must be overcome with the spirit of giving — they announced today that The Flaming Lips will curate the final day of ATP NY 2009.

As curators, the band will perform and select around 15 bands and artists to play on their hand-crafted day, Sunday, Sept. 13. ATP is sticking to the 2008 format, with Don’t Look Back sets on Friday as well as comedy, an ATP-curated day of bands on Saturday and of course, The Lips’ bands of choice on Sunday. The ATP curators also announced today that Autolux and Black Dice have been added to Saturday’s line-up.

Tickets and rooms at Kutshers (and another nearby hotel) are now on sale. Weekend passes will run you $235 each in addition to a booking fee. Rooms cost $150 per person.

The full details currently available for the weekend are as follows:
Friday (09.11.09) Don’t Look Back and Comedy:
Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs
Suicide performing their first LP
Comedy curated by David Cross