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Before Mark Mothersbaugh began composing soundtracks, before “Whip It” became a Swiffer commercial and long before McDonald’s was sued for New Wave Nigel, the American Idol Happy Meal toy with a red energy dome on his noggin, there was Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!, Devo’s synth-punk 1978 debut. And it was good.
All Tomorrow's Parties announced the Sunday curator for its 2009 season. The Flaming Lips will headline festivities for the last day of the three-day event, which runs Sept. 11-13, in Monticello, N.Y. Other confirmed performers include Panda Bear, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Dirty Three, Suicide and David Cross.
The second annual All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) festival has been re-scheduled for Sept. 11-13, 2009 (moved from Labor day weekend). The festival takes place at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, New York and follows the huge success of last year's festival with co-curators and performers My Bloody Valentine.
Nick Cave sure is busy these days. After the critically acclaimed release of Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (accompanied later by a little book) and a tour filled year, Cave has announced plans to release a new book entitled The Death of Bunny Munro. This will be, of course, his second work of fiction after releasing And the Ass Saw the Angel in 1989.
[Above: His Holiness Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine]
A new flyer went up around Kutsher's late on the second day of All Tomorrow's Parties' New York debut. Earplugs would be available, for free and in large quantities, for everyone. Smart people (like me) had already brought their own: the unofficial reports from My Bloody Valentine's London shows was that they were reaching 132 decibels during their set, which is just slightly softer than a jet taking off.
[Above: Thee Silver Mt. Zion]
Day 2 of ATP began with a scare: there was a rumor, spread over Blackberries and touch-and-go Internet access, that Kutsher's and the surrounding Catskills hotels near the festival site had severe bedbugs infestations. It was hard to determine which was scarier: the idea of carrying bedbugs back to our homes, or standing too close to the stage during Les Savy Fav's set.
[Above: The Meat Puppets]
Two firsts are happening simultaneously at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival this year: it not only marks the return of My Bloody Valentine to the United States, but it also mark's the first East coast festival for the UK based ATP, who has previously staged festivals in both London and Los Angeles. MBV is headlining the final night of the three-day, all-indoor festival, which kicked off with ATP's "Don't Look Back."
It's been a long, long 16 years since Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine bandmates last washed us with their waves of heavenly distortion. But at long last, the All Tomorrow's Parties festival is providing the seminal group a magical weekend to host a blowout of early-90s noise jams, September 19-21 in upstate New York. 
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