atp nyc, mbv’s north american tour, etc.

Perhaps the world’s best party throwers, ATP (All Tomorrow’s Parties), have added more bands to their NY festival, as well as let loose the next batch of ticket sales. You can purchase tickets with  or without accommodation. No day tickets are available, single non-accommodation tickets will run you $225 for the weekend.  While they do not have the chalets of Camber Sands, ATP has arranged for DJ’S and post-gig partying at the Raleigh Hotel to continue the entertainment for those who have booked accommodation.  The festival runs from Friday 19 September through Sunday 21st September at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello NY.  Tickets are available at Seetickets.com or by clicking here.

My Bloody Valentine have curated this festival along with ATP, and will be playing their first North American gig in 16 years.

The line up as of today is as follows:

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
DINOSAUR JR
MERCURY REV
YO LA TENGO
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 guest DAGHA
THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION ORCHESTRA
HARMONIA
LILYS
GROWING

The lineup is pretty mind-blowing.  If you can afford it, and even if you can’t, do whatever you have to in order to get your arse there.

If you can’t make it, and you’re an MBV fan, good news, they have announced North American tour dates.

22 September NY @ Roseland (on sale 9 May 10 a.m.)

25 September Toronto @ Ricoh (on sale 9 May 10 a.m.)

27 September Chicago @ Aragon Ballroom (on sale 10 May 10 a.m.)

30 September San Francisco @ The Concourse (on sale 11 May 10 a.m.

1 & 2 October Los Angeles @ Santa Monica Civic Center (on sale 10 May 10 a.m.)

Tickets are available via Ticketmaster outlets.

emi warms up to the google love

FUG IT is aimed at music fans, and talking about music we like, and we hope you like.  while we tap into industry news and goings-on for ourselves, we are not a music newswire as such, however some things are just too big to ignore.

1st april saw the announcement of a Google executive to head up EMI’s digital branch.  as most of you are probably well-aware, the big labels have been choking, their vast corporate structures too rigid to cope with the flexibility and variety of digital music formats.  first it was Napster, and now we have any number of digital music streaming options available to us, not to mention the fact that in the last 10 years we’ve switched from an ‘album’ culture to one of ‘tracks’ and ‘downloads.’

who knows what Mr. Google has in mind, but it would be fascinating to see him revolutionize the ‘suit culture’ of the leviathan EMI into an innovative, forward-thinking competitor in digital music.