Pavement reformation ist rad

I should have posted this last week (well, i did but on Twitter, not here). It seems that my favourite band ever - PAVEMENT - is reforming for a world-wide tour in 2010. Their tour begins on September 21st, the first of four shows at Rumsey Playfield in New York's Central Park. On how the reunion came about Spiral Stairs (aka Scott Kannberg) told Prefix Mag:

"Steve and I just had a conversation on the phone, and we'd never talked about it before at all,” he said. “We've talked over the years, but the subject never came up. Then our agent asked us about these New York shows, so we went around to everybody in the band, and they said, 'Yeah, the time is right. If everybody's ready to do it, then we'll do it and see what happens'. There was no real impetus – it just kind of happened naturally."

More awesome details at matador.com and crookedrain.com

Fingers crossed for Australian dates, although it is tempting to buy tickets and a plane fare for NYC! VERY tempting...



Stephen Malkmus is in Australia this week anyway. I'll be seeing him on Wednesday at the Prince of Wales... AND Spiral Stairs is also in town too... coincidence? Hmm.

ATP rule my world

The Drones, photo by Dennis Stempher.

All Tomorrow's Parties get busy stateside over the next couple of months, presenting their "Don't Look Back" shows in Chicago (Mission of Burma and Public Enemy) for the Pitchfork Festival before teaming with My Bloody Valentine in September for ATP in New York.

Details for the NYC gig (at a holiday park in the Catskills!) already look promising with Low, Mogwai, Shellac, Edan, The Drones (pictured above), Polvo, My Bloody Valentine and Thurston Moore all confirmed. Plus two of my favourite bands of the late 90s will be performing two of my favourite records of the 90s... Built to Spill do Perfect From Now On... and Tortoise do Millions Now Living Will Never Die.

So awesome. Wish i could go! The Chicago show also looks amazing with some of my fave new bands - The Dodos, Fleet Foxes, Ruby Suns and Jay Reatard... plus ol' faithfuls like Jarvis Cocker and Dinosaur Jr.

Speaking of Jay Mascis and co. they turn up at the forthcoming Explosions in the Sky curated ATP next month alongside The Constantines, Broken Social Scene, Iron and Wine and on and so rad and amazing and rad and on and on on...!!!

I have back-to back weekends of this awesome-ness because i also have tickets for the Pitchfork ATP at Camber Sands the week before. Sorry, my keyboard is moist with drool and feel like i'm gloating. In the lead up to these sensational set of festivals i'll be posting some details on the bands appearing, so stay tuned.

Big Apples

The Brunettes photo by sidmuchrock

Won't be blogging much for a couple of weeks, I'm heading to New York for a holiday! Hopefully we can catch Sons and Daughters playing with the Brunettes (pictured) and Bodies of Water on Saturday night at The Bowery. Fingers crossed it doesn't sell out on us...

And then we have Blitzen Trapper and Fleet Foxes to look forward to in Washington on the 25th at Black Cat. Wizard!

If you're in New York or Washington over the next two weeks and can recommend something to see, or a good gig guide then please leave a comment. Orevwah!