Duck & Cover :: Indie rock music writing from Arcade Fire to the Zygotic Minci

And the haters shall be revealed to be hopeless fanboys... OHMYGODOHMYGOD!! My. Bloody. Valentine. Is. Playing. West. Coast. Shows! And some other places too! We were snide, we were a little catty, but to say that we are not excited to the core at the prospect of seeing MBV live would be an outright lie. Also, in Santa Monica! My Bloody Valentine in the sun and near the beach seems somehow appropriate, as their shimmery pop happy sound could easily soundtrack a trip, to, uh, the beach. Or a lazy day in the park watching clouds and soaking up the sun; they're just dreamy! And happy! And we're really sorry that we made fun of them a little bit, but it's been so long, and maybe at the time we thought they had it coming just a little bit, but we see now that we were wrong wrong wrong, and to make it up, ok all right we'll come see you in California. Via Pitchfork , and we kind of hate you for using the "omg" tag, but we're just going to steal that anyway, ok? ...

All right, we were a bit cynical when My Bloody Valentine announced they were reuniting. But seriously, who wouldn't be understandably skeptical when a genre-defining band comes out of retirement to release a new album of old material? Anyway, it's all water under the bridge now because MBV is headlining one sweet Jesus of a line up. Get this: My Bloody Valentine Built to Spill performing Perfect From Now On Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die Shellac Mogwai Polvo Fuck Buttons Autolux The Drones Low Wooden Shjips Edan with Dagha Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra This is the line-up for All Tomorrow's Parties, and if you're lucky (a. you're in Monticello, NY, and b. you're one of 3,000 who can get a ticket) then you get to experience this swoon-inducing festival. You can buy tickets to the parties here. Good luck. And if you make it, please tell us. Tell us it was...