ATP initial line-up

Almost forgot that All Tomorrow's Parties New York (September 3-5; Labor Day weekend) was announcing its line-up today!! Naturally, it's pretty tasty so far. MOST SUPERIOR FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD? Highly likely.

The guest curator for Sunday, September 5 is director Jim Jarmusch, whose most recent movie, 'The Limits of Control,' has a KICK-ASS heavy-drone soundtrack, featuring SUNN0))), Boris and Earth (Brian Jonestown Massacre and Raekwon are his picks so far - Raekwon being Wu-Tang member, and having performed on the soundtrack to Jarmusch's film Ghost Dog, one of my favorites). I'm sure he'll be announcing some sweet additions soon.

OTHER CONFIRMED ACTS:

• Iggy & The Stooges - Performing Raw Power
• Sleep - Performing Holy Mountain
• Mudhoney - Performing Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles
• The Scientists - Performing Blood Red River (First Ever U.S. Show!)
• Sonic Youth
• Explosions In The Sky
• The Breeders
• Fuck Buttons
• The Books
• Papa M
• APSE
• Raekwon
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  

This is the third year ATP has shared its festival with North America. (Maybe someday in the future they'll give the midwest a little love? Eh?)

In the meantime, check their website for more info about ATP New York and all kinds of European shows I'm green with envy over.

In other fun festival news ~ BOOMSLANG 2010 is in the early planning stages :) Stay tuned for more details in the next month or so.