All Tomorrow's Parties

[Lupek]

FYI -

WFMU (http://www.wfmu.org/) is broadcasting the All Tomorrow's Parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Tomorrow%27s_Parties_(music_festival)) music festival (curated by My Bloody Valentine) live all day today (now) and tomorrow.

http://www.wfmu.org/

[PanzerMega]

Now that's a show I'd have liked to have been at. If I wasn't overseas at the moment, I'd have made the trip to NY.

My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Trail of Dead, and Yo La Tengo all one day would have been a good time.

[Lupek]

Here is a review..........

35 Noise-Slinging Bands in 3 Days of ’90s-Style Guitar Rock (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/music/22atp.html?ref=music)

MONTICELLO, N.Y. — All Tomorrow’s Parties New York started, appropriately, with a gust of guitar noise from the Philadelphia band Bardo Pond on Friday, and it was to end (after press time late on Sunday night) with the first United States concert in more than a decade by My Bloody Valentine, the revered Irish band that engulfed its songs in distortion. The three-day festival of (mostly) indie-rock, held in the unlikely environs of the kitschy Catskills resort Kutsher’s, was virtually dedicated to the tumultuous interplay of guitars, amplifiers, musicians and room acoustics. It was old-school indie-rock: not a debut mp3 downloaded from a blog but an engulfing live experience.

This lineup of All Tomorrow’s Parties, which has been presenting festivals in England since 2000 and in the United States since 2002, had its heart in the 1990s. That was when the grungy resurgence of punk-rock, a galvanized college-radio community, CD technology and the burgeoning Internet fostered a do-it-yourself circuit that now supports — more or less — bands that never expect to be heard on the Top 40.

The 35-group lineup, on two stages, was full of bands that have earned loyal fans by persevering with self-made styles. It included bands like Polvo, formed in 1990 in Chapel Hill, N.C., playing ever-surprising math-rock that switched between spindly counterpoint and bruising, dissonant stomps, and the Minnesota band Low, formed in 1993, whose songs are so quiet and brooding they turned momentous when they added a beat. Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra, formed in Montreal in 1999, played long, meditative songs pondering death and redemption, building repeatedly from sparse, hymnlike melodies with hovering violin notes to majestic dirges.

Although guitar bands dominated the festival, there were a few exceptions. Edan, a polysyllabic rapper fascinated with science and hip-hop history, performed an impressive stunt: holding his microphone in his right hand and rhyming without a pause, he was also his own D.J., cutting together records with only his left hand.

All Tomorrow’s Parties retained a do-it-yourself scale, with just 2,700 ticketholders and no corporate sponsors. Proudly nerdy indie-rock fans wandered the halls and grounds of the hotel, better known for borscht belt comedy than screechy feedback.

My Bloody Valentine chose the bands for Sunday’s lineup, full of kindred noise-slingers. Saturday’s lineup, chosen by All Tomorrow’s Parties, wasn’t exactly dulcet. It ended with the frenetic, hard-riffing duo Lightning Bolt performing on the floor of the Stardust Ballroom, with Brian Chippendale (wearing noise-protector earphones) slamming away at the drums and gabbling through a distorting microphone while Brian Gibson sent his bass lines through wailing, rumbling octave-shifting effects.

The weekend began with what the festival calls “Don’t Look Back”: naming an alternative rock canon by inviting bands to perform full albums. Filling Friday’s lineup, those were Bardo Pond’s “Lapsed” from 1997, the Meat Puppets’ “II” from 1984, Tortoise’s “Millions Now Living Will Never Die” from 1996, Thurston Moore’s “Psychic Hearts” from 1999 and Built to Spill’s “Perfect From Now On” from 1997.

Punk-rock ideologues wanted to make guitar heroes obsolete; they couldn’t. The album performances Friday, except for the one by the minimalistic Tortoise, revolved around guitars used for texture, drama and airborne lead lines. Punk did succeed, however, in making stagy guitar heroics seem embarrassing. So in good indie-rock style, bandleaders revisiting their albums performed their feats matter-of-factly.

Thurston Moore, who said he wrote and recorded “Psychic Hearts” in a day, gave the songs far more heft and aggression than they had in the studio. The Meat Puppets’ “II,” full of songs about disorientation, kept listeners off balance by veering between punky tumult and intricate country picking, though the countryish songs are full of very untraditional harmonic slippage. Replaying the album, Curt Kirkwood, on guitar, switched instantaneously between pretty and vociferous.

Built to Spill’s “Perfect From Now On” is a set of wounded songs from a man betrayed. But the songwriter and guitarist Doug Martsch turned biliousness into something grand and redemptive: one pealing riff after another, with guitars creating monumental backdrops for his sometimes bluesy, sometimes meteoric lead guitar. He wasn’t done when he finished the songs from the album. He reached back further for “Car” and “Stab” from the 1994 album “There’s Nothing Wrong With Love” and wound up with a triumphant, cantankerous surge of noise — as overwhelming now as it was in the ’90s.

[Lupek]

Here are some of the 2009 line ups.......

UK 2009 Weekend One - The Fans Strike Back!
8-10/05/2009. This event will be held at All Tomorrow's Parties second home: Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Half of the lineup will be chosen by ATP and the other half by votes cast by everyone who buys a ticket. For the first round of votes people cannot vote for any bands that have ever played a UK ATP Festival before. Line-up so far:

Curated by ATP:

Devo, Grails, Sleep perform Holy Mountain, selections from Dopesmoker and more, Spiritualized, Young Marble Giants perform Colossal Youth, Antipop Consortium, Sleepy Sun, The Jesus Lizard, The Cave Singers, Retribution Gospel Choir

Curated by The Fans:

Beirut


UK 2009 Weekend Two - curated by The Breeders
15-17/05/2009. This event will be held at All Tomorrow's Parties second home: Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Line-up so far:

The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Bon Iver, Holy Fuck, Teenage Fanclub, Kimya Dawson, Pit Er Pat, Deerhunter, Gang Of Four, Shellac (House band), Foals, Zach Hill, The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims), The Holloys, Styrofoam


Forthcoming Australian ATP Festivals

Australian ATP 2009 - curated by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9-18/01/2009 - Events in Brisbane, Sydney's Cockatoo Island and Mt Buller (in Victoria). These are the currently confirmed lineups with much more to be added in all three locations. Mt Buller is a two day event on the 9th-10th January. Sydney is a one day lineup repeating on the 17th and 18th January at Cockatoo Island. Brisbane is a series of one night stands the main event of which is a large show at the Riverstage venue on the 15th. Spiritualized will also play headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland as part of the season.

Mt. Buller Lineup:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints, Spiritualized, Fuck Buttons, Harmonia, The Necks, Laughing Clowns, Robert Forster, James Blood Ulmer, Michael Gira, Primitive Calculators, Afrirampo, Silver Apples, Bridezilla, Rowland S. Howard, The Stabs, Dirty Three (performing Ocean Songs), The Reels, Bill Callahan, Dead Meadow, Psarandonis, Small Knives, Passenger Of Shit, The Holy Sea, Hunter Dienna, Beaches, Hoss, Conway Savage.

Sydney Lineup:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints, Spiritualized, Fuck Buttons, Harmonia, The Necks, Laughing Clowns, Robert Forster, James Blood Ulmer, Michael Gira, Afrirampo, Silver Apples, Bridezilla, The Stabs, Dead Meadows, Rowland S. Howard, The Reels, Psaradonis, Conway Savage, Beaches, Hunter Dienna, Passenger Of Shit, Sounds Of Seduction.

Brisbane Lineup:

Riverstage: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints performing I'm Stranded, Spiritualized, Robert Forster, James Blood Ulmer, The Necks.

Powerhouse 'one night stands': Afrirampo, Fuck Buttons, Harmonia, Dead Meadow, Psarandonis, Michael Gira will all perform with more to be announced.


Forthcoming USA ATP Festivals

USA ATP New York 2009 - curated by The Flaming Lips/ATP
11-13/09/2008. This event will be held at Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, New York in September 2009. It will follow the same format as 2008's event with Friday featuring Don't Look Back sets and a comedy curated stage. Saturday will be once again curated by ATP and Sunday will be curated by guests The Flaming Lips. Criterion will once again host the cinema. Tickets for the festival and rooms at Kutshers are currently on sale from the ATP website. Line-up so far:

Friday 11th September - Don't Look Back/Comedy:

Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs, Suicide performing Suicide, David Cross (curating comedy)

Saturday 12th September - Curated by ATP:

Animal Collective, Antipop Consortium, Atlas Sound, Panda Bear, Autolux, Black Dice

Sunday 13th September - Curated by The Flaming Lips:

The Flaming Lips

(source is wikipedia so who knows)