
If you’re reading this post you probably like music, art, film and comedy, or at the very least some combination of the four. If so, ATP New York probably has something for you and, it’s only a few weekends away. Just for starters: Jim Jarmusch presenting his film Mystery Train, a David Cross curated comedy section, an Eric White art exhibit, Sufjan, and No Age and Bob Mould performing Husker Du… the list goes on and on.
ATP takes place the weekend of September 11 at Kutsher’s Country Resort in Catskills, New York. Three-day or one-day passes are available as are buses from Brooklyn and Manhattan to the stomping grounds.And there’s no corporate sponsorships in these parts, so while this does seemingly lessen your chance of getting a free energy drink upon arrival, it way ups your chance of not selling out and whatnot. Full details at the ATP website.
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The fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest will hit Austin, Texas’ Waterloo Park for two days packed with music on November 7 and 8. The full lineup for the 2009 festival was just announced, and includes Ratatat, Of Montreal, Crystal Castles, Les Savy Fav, Yeasayer, Mission of Burma, Broadcast, Atlas Sound, No Age, Shonen Knife, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, Crystal Antlers, Jesus Lizard, Kid Sister, HEALTH, Neon Indian, and Alaska in Winter, among many others. Tickets go on sale today on the Fun Fest’s website, with early bird tickets going for $67.50 and early bird pip tickets selling for $135. The entire lineup is available for your viewing pleasure here.
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Freshly sharpened pencils, lumpy apple slices and All Tomorrow’s Parties: it must be back-to-school time! Located in upstate New York at a country club with a capacity of only 2,800, this music festival sounds exactly like the liberal arts colleges I would have sacrificed myself at age 17 to attend. But instead of semesters of boredom and years of loans, this is just one big orgiastic weekend, September 11-13, partially curated by free love-enthusiasts The Flaming Lips.
The Sunday lineup, hand-selected and headlined by the Lips, includes Super Furry Animals, Boredoms, Crystal Castles, Deerhoof with Martha Colburn, and best of all, No Age performing Hüsker Dü with Bob Mould. I’m seeing colors right now. Check out the full line-up here.
In related Flaming Lips news, a new digital EP, titled “Songs from The Future Album Embryonic” is available to ATP ticket purchasers for free, and at basement bargain price for the rest of us. The three-song sampler should get you salivating for their first studio full-length in three years, coming out this fall… It’s about damn time.
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As we’ve already reported, No Age has a new EP coming out on October 6th. But if you are antsy and eager to hear some music before then, Sub Pop has the entire EP, entitled Losing Feeling available for your listening pleasure now. In order to stream these tunes you’re gonna need to give up your email, but what you can also do is pre-order the EP which will be available only digitally and on vinyl. For those über No Age fans out there, make sure you catch the live performance of their score for Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1989 film The Bear at the New Museum in NYC on October 16.
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FYF (formerly Fuck Yeah Fest) is back and taking place at the Los Angeles Historic State Park in Downtown LA on Saturday, September 5th, 2009. Tickets are going for $20 a pop and are on sale now. FYF will also be donating $1 of every ticket to two organizations, Homeboy Industries and Harvest of Hope.
This year, the event is attached to an urgent awareness regarding the California State Park System where the governer recently decided to cut $14.2 million in funding, bringing over 100 California State Parks to the brink of closure. For more information on the State Park situation, go to www.calparks.org. Also the lineup is awesome, including The Black Lips, No Age, Lightning Bolt, Crystal Antlers and more.
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