Live Show: Panda Bear @ ATP NY (9/11/09)

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Panda Bear
All Tomorrow’s Parties New York
9/11/09

01 Chores
02 Song For Ariel
03 Ponytail
04 Untitled 1
05 Daily Routine
06 Bros
07 #1
08 I’m Not
09 Boneless (Notwist Remix)
10 Untitled 2

VIdeo: Bradford Cox vs Wayne Coyne @ ATP NY 2009

This is seriously hilarious. Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips) and Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) apparently had some beef with each other at the recent All Tomorrow’s Parties New York. This isn’t the first time Coyne has dissed fellow indie rockers. The Colbert Report has all the details:

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Festival Updates: Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, Coachella, ATP NY

There have been some festival happenings lately, so i’m going to wrap them all up for you here. First, Pitchfork Music Festival announced their initial lineup.

Friday:

Tortoise
Yo La Tengo
The Jesus Lizard
Built To Spill

Saturday:

The National
Pharoahe Monch
The Pains Of Being Pure Heart

Sunday:

Grizzly Bear
The Walkmen
Vivian Girls

it’s a great start. Instead of doing the ATP “Don’t Look Back” thing they have done in past years where bands perform one of their classic albums, this year they are changing up the format. Everyone who buys a ticket gets to vote on songs they want the Friday night bands to play, and the bands will tailor their setlists accordingly. The fest is going down in Chicago July 17-19 and tickets go on sale this Friday.

Pitchfork Fest website




With just 36 days until Coachella 2009 kicks off, they have made some lineup changes. First, Amy Winehouse has dropped off. Did anyone really believe she was going to show up for this? Also, they added a few key bands:

The Chemical Brothers
The Orb
Devendra Banhart
Murder City Devils
Etienne De Crecy
Busy P

It’s going down April 17-19 in Indio, California and tickets to this are still available:

Coachella website




There is no official word yet on this year’s Lollapalooza, but The Chicago Tribune is claiming that the headliners will include:

Depeche Mode
Beastie Boys
Jane’s Addiction

The Chicago based fest is happening August 7-9. Early bird tickets go on sale March 31, but I’ve heard rumours of $60 tickets available this week:

Lollapalooza website




Finally, New York’s ATP fest has quietly added some more bands to the lineup, including Akron/Family, Melvins, and The Jesus Lizard, making the current lineup look like this:

Friday:

The Jesus Lizard
Suicide – Performing Suicide (1st LP)
Dirty Three – Performing Ocean Songs
The Drones – Performing Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
David Cross

Saturday:

Animal Collective
Panda Bear
Melvins
El-P
Dead Meadow
Akron Family
Sleepy Sun
Black Dice
Antipop Consortium
Autolux
Atlas Sound

Sunday:

The Flaming Lips (curating Sunday lineup)

It keeps getting better and better, and you know the Sunday lineup put together by The Flaming Lips is going to amazing. It is going down September 11-13 in Monticello, NY. Tickets have been on sale since last year:

ATP NY website

Ohmpark’s 2009 Festival Guide

The beginning of a new year comes with rampant speculation of who is going to be on each upcoming festival’s line-up. I’m going to break down some of the rumours, and talk about the festivals I am most excited about in 2009. So break open your calendar and get ready to plan your year in festies:

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All Tomorrow’s Parties NY Day 3 (Sunday & Wrap-Up): I Think I’m Gonna Need A Bigger Set Of Earplugs

All Photos by Abbey Braden courtesy of ATP.

Saturday night we got back very late to our hotel so I proceeded to order vodka and cranberries by the handful and shoot as many as possible before the looming last call at the bar. I clearly overshot my target and ended up waking up Sunday with a ludicrously painful hangover to start off the day. Most of the afternoon consisted of me trying recover. It finally subsided and I was able to make it to the very end of the Mercury Rev show. As soon a I walked in the backdoor of the venue, there was like a sonic boom blast of sound from a particularly epic part of their set, and you could tell they had this soundsystem at full blast in anticipation of My Bloody Valentine. I wish I could have seen more of Mercury Rev, because the last few minutes I caught were amazing. I’m about to dig deep into their new CD and their old stuff because i wasn’t familiar with them until now.

We stuck around up front to wait for Yo La Tengo, a favourite for all of our ATP crew. The guards or somebody decided starting on Sunday that they would make everyone leave the venue between each performance and have everyone wait outside, which really seemed rather purposeless. At one point a security guard unsuccessfully tried to get the massive crowd filling an entire room to form two lines to go in and it was hilarious. The guards never cleared out the venue area again after that.

We still managed to get front row, and enjoy their top notch set. I was hoping for a full on noise jam set from Ira Kaplan, and while it ended up being a rather balanced sort of set, full of soft, pretty parts and loud, psychedelic stuff, Ira still shredded plenty enough for me. Yo La Tengo is just one of the best bands of alltime in my opinion, to still be writing relevant, amazing music and playing such impressive live shows after 24 years. Here’s video from their set:

After that, we literally ran across Kutcher’s to the second stage to catch …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. We missed only a little bit of their great set, and I’m glad I finally caught these guys. In comparison to the rest of the mindblowing shows of Sunday, Trail Of Dead might have seemed a bit less enjoyable, but still could have been the highlight of lesser festival.


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Photos: ATP New York – Day 2 (9-20-08) in Monticello, NY

Growing

Fuck Buttons


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Photos: ATP New York – Day 1 (9-19-08) in Monticello, NY

Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts


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All Tomorrow’s Parties NY Day 2 (Saturday): This Festival Is Cool And All, But I Sure Wish Jack Johnson Was Here

Just Kidding. I noticed in the programs/schedules we got that they joked about a big thing that set ATP apart from other festivals being “that no one selected or even wanted Jack Johnson“, and if you read this blog regularly, you know I can appreciate that sentiment.

We stuck around until last call at the bar at The Raleigh Friday night, so the first band I was able to catch on Saturday was the end of Growing‘s set. The 10 minutes or so I saw, I thought sounded great. I’ll be looking hard into this noise jamming duo now. After that I gave a short listen to The Drones and Wooden Shjips, but neither was really up my alley. I watched Fuck Buttons next, and damn their set was serious. I listened to their album and thought it was decent but it didn’t really hit me as something special, but catching them in a live setting totally sold me on these guys. The two dudes used all sorts of cool devices stacked on a table including a toy mic audio recorder sent through some interesting effects resulting in sweet distorted vocals. Their sound came off to me somewhere between Holy Fuck and Indian Jewelry, which is a great place to be.

After that I decided to start partying and enjoying the facilities. The resort ATP was being held on was kitschy and weird, and at first seemed like sort of a dump. But around the second day we were starting to appreciate how cool a venue this actually was. It was really nice to have an entire resort completely to ourselves, and often times you would see the artists walking around, catching shows, and hanging. We hung out in their children’s playground for a bit and tried out some strange playground equipment I had never seen before. We hung out by the pond with all of the drinkers and smokers and chilled. The place had a lot of amenities, but was crappy enough that a festival crowd couldn’t do too much damage to it. Well, they probably could.

Anyways, I checked out about half of Edan‘s set, and that was really good. I’ve found myself getting really bored of hip-hop these days, a genre I used to love. I mean, the new Lil’ Wayne is incredible and all, but it is still pretty much the same old thing rappers have been doing for 20 years. But Edan and his partner for this show Dagha brought some originality to the game. I particularly liked how they utilized a delay pedal to accent certain syllables instead of having a “hype man” yell the last word of every line. Another trick I enjoyed was when Edan did a rap referencing all types of classic records while Dagha would shuffle through them and display each record he was referencing. I love a show that can be fun to watch and exhibit feats of musicianship and skill at the same time.

I did some more partying, caught a little bit of OM, thought it was cool but I wasn’t really in the mood for it, then did some more partying. Next up for me was Low. They really impressed me because I only liked a few of the songs from their last record, but they were making me love absolutely every minute of their “slowcore” set (which is a funny yet accurate for this band genre title). The amount of intensity they can can pack inside of such downbeat, soft, and pretty sounding stuff just dazzled me.

By the time Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra began their set, I realized I had been partying too hard and could not properly appreciate it. I went and grabbed some food and drink some water, and got myself back to a manageable level of intoxication. I then returned back to the second stage, laid down in the back, and just let the rest Mount Zion‘s epic two hour set wash across me. This may have been the show I enjoyed most all weekend. I am about to obtain every bit of material from this project I possibly can and get obsessed for a while, so expect more of that around here. In addition to their top notch music, I loved how the dude would respond to every single bit of crowd heckling and yelling and call people out and talk smack . All around, this show was just: Wow!

I caught the last part of Shellac‘s set and felt the same way about it that I did when trying out their records: it wasn’t bad, but nothing amazing. Among many other basic indie rock facts I learned over the weekend, I hadn’t realized this was Steve Albini’s band, and they did a little question and answer part at one point that was interesting. After that Lighting Bolt set up on the ground to the right of the stage with a big circular mirror hanging above them so everyone could see the chaos going on at the center of that sonic tornado. What a day!

I’ll have my Day 3/Wrap-Up post as soon as Biggie C gets all of his photos posted, probably around the end of the week.

Here’s a video of Shellac from ATP NY:

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