All Tomorrow's Parties

The National to curate All Tomorrow's Parties 2012; first wave of performers announced

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 18, 2012 9:37 am
For over a decade, three-day music festival All Tomorrow's Parties has been showcasing excellent alternative artists as selected by a guest curator -- normally another artist. Past ATP curators include My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr., Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian, and even Simpsons creator Matt Groening.Joining that list is The National, who will...
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I Read The News Today... For April 4, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 4, 2011 2:20 pm
A Perfect Circle have announced that tickets for their upcoming summer reunion tour go on sale on Friday. (In other news... LOL.) —aperfectcircle.com Regina indie poppers Library Voices have signed to Nevado Records, which is home to Yukon Blonde, Bahamas and The Golden Dogs. They'll release their Summer Of Lust sophomore album sometime this...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 17, 2011 2:06 pm
The Raveonettes have made "Forget That You're Young," which will appear on their upcoming Raven In The Grave album, available for free download. The LP is out April 5.Young Galaxy have released a free remix EP featuring four reworkings of Shapeshifting's "Cover Your Tracks." Montreal's CFCF, Teen Daze and Toronto's Freedom Or Death are among those...
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I Read The News... For Nov. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 2:22 pm
In today's installment of "Oh, dear God, please don't let this happen," Peter Hook says he's going to re-record several Joy Division tracks for a four-song EP with his new band The Light and Happy Mondays singer Rowetta. Ian Curtis just rolled over in his grave. —Slicing Up Eyeballs Korn's Jonathan Davis says he wants to be able to do drugs again...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 12, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 12, 2010 2:35 pm
Hey, so this sounds like a bad idea: The Fiery Furnaces are going to release 10 (yes, 10) studio albums this year. Eight of those will be solo releases from Matthew Friedburger. —Entertainment WeeklyMetric performed at New York's Museum Of Modern Art last night to honour film director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Point Break). She's got a...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 27, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 27, 2010 1:42 pm
Here's a tip: don't slice up a tendon in your hand, especially if you play guitar. Devo have been forced to postpone all their upcoming tour dates for the rest of the year because guitarist Mark Mothersbaugh severed a tendon when a glass shard cut his right thumb through to the bone. Yeowch. Someone has deemed Die Antwoord's video for "Zef Slide"...
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All Tomorrow's Parties

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) January 21, 2010 6:16 pm
All Tomorrow's Parties has showcased one of the vastest array of artists of any festival going over its decade-plus existence. That it's done so with without corporate sponsorship is testament to the ideals the festival organizers try to wrap all their events in. This new documentary so brilliantly captures these ethea. It uses footage from the...
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Simpsons Creator Curating All Tomorrow's Parties UK

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 13, 2009 10:14 am
Simpsons creator Matt Groening will curate the first All Tomorrow's Parties weekend festival in the U.K. next year. Groening will be responsible for the lineup and programming for the festival, which runs from May 7 to 9 at Butlins Holiday Festival in Minehead, England. No information about any acts playing the festival has been announced yet....
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All Tomorrow's Parties Consider Black Lips "Assholes"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 8, 2009 12:52 pm
It looks like Black Lips won't play All Tomorrow's Parties again. Festival organizers Barry Hogan and Deborah Kee Higgins had less than kind things to say about the Atlanta garage rock quartet in a recent interview with the Village Voice. "We have a 'No Assholes' policy," Higgins said. "You can play once because we don't know you'...
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The Jesus Lizard Back Together Again

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By CHARTattack Staff November 27, 2008 11:41 am
The original Jesus Lizard lineup of singer David Yow, guitarist Duane Denison, bassist David William Sims and drummer Mac McNeilly will play together for the first time in 12 years, beginning at All Tomorrow's Parties' The Fans Strike Back event from May 8 to 10 in the U.K. The Jesus Lizard formed in Chicago in 1987 and disbanded in 1999 after...
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My Bloody Valentine To Headline And Curate All Tomorrow's Parties In New York

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 23, 2008 4:30 pm
My Bloody Valentine will perform in North America for the first time in 16 years when they curate and headline September's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York. The recently reformed Anglo-Irish shoegazers are among those already confirmed to play the three-day festival, which will be held from Sept. 19 to 21 in the Catskills Mountains...
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Matt Groening Named As 2003 ATP Curator

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By CHARTattack Staff July 3, 2002 1:00 pm
After an inaugural run that was plagued with a few glitches, the U.S. leg of the popular British All Tomorrow's Parties festival will return next year. ATP is a unique turn in festival culture — rather than simply booking bands that will provide a draw, each year the festival organizers name a curator who has full license to book all of his or...
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