Since September 11th 2001 pop culture has been stuck in a time loop. Nothing produced after 9.11.01 will ever be revisited or romanticized because we all long for the world when we could walk through a metal detector while wearing shoes and a tiny war on CNN that was as competitive as the average Tyson fight.
VH1 is bummed because when they try to make “I Love The 2000’s” they can only go “Hey remember when we remembered dance music and cocaine, remember when we remembered hair metal, remember when we remembered breakdancing?”. So it’s only fitting that All Tomorrow’s Parties ups the ante and puts on the most pre-911 show possible.
This September 19th - 21st you’ll be able to re-remember or misremember the heart of the 90s with a My Bloody Valentine curated festival in the Catskills, NY. Just the visual of that blurry Fender guitar is pretty soothing. It reminds me of striped shirts, floppy hair, and weird chicks. I don’t know if I am really looking forward to MBV08 but I don’t mind giving K.Sheilds my money and rolling the dice. MBV are kind of like the Creation records equivalent of Guns N’ Roses, I’m hoping homeboy doesn’t have braids or a dude wearing a KFC bucket on stage but I can’t rule anything out.
Not only are the key bands 90s bands but some are being forced to play their most 90s material here’s the line up so far :
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
FUCK BUTTONS
POLVO
LOW
EDAN WITH GUEST DAGHA
MOGWAI
THE DRONES
BUILT TO SPILL PERFORMING PERFECT FROM NOW ON
WOODEN SHJIPS
SHELLAC
THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION ORCHESTRA
AUTOLUX
MEAT PUPPETS PERFORMING MEAT PUPPETS II
TORTOISE PERFORMING MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE
THURSTON MOORE PERFORMING PSYCHIC HEARTS
A world where Polvo can reunite is not right. Exploded Drawing has a cool cover and a few good songs but there aren’t enough gas station jackets and pocket tees left in the world to give a fuck.
No one will ever convince me to “appreciate” the Meat Puppets, I hated even typing that name it’s bumming me out just looking at those two words together. Let’s hope one of them gets back on heroin in time to cancel the performance.
TAGS: All Tomorrow's Parties, Built To Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Tortoise
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
agree 100%. Sure Lollapalooza sucked, but I don’t remember them trying to revive Aztec Camera, or any terrible bands Kurt Cobain said were amazing in an interview, and if they did it’s not like anyone but washed up record store owners would give a shit. Actually if you just counted the Lolla side stage, you would probably have the greatest running festival/tour in history. Not that I ever went, but I should have.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Shellac, MBV, BTS playing a 60 min 8-song lp, Tortoise revisiting their best material, on a farm, upstate…sounds like washed up heaven to me. They should call this “LATE 30S DRUG-BLOAT FEST”…