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Andrew Bird at All Points West Festival 2008

The dates and lineup of the second year of All Points West Festival has finally been announced. Here are the deets:

It’s at Liberty State Park In NJ again (they promised better trasnsportation this year) and will take place on July 31, August 1 and 2. But you want to know the lineup don’t you? Here it is:

Friday, July 31: Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Flying Lotus, College Humor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman and Bo Burnham.

Saturday, August 1: Tool, My Bloody Valentine, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, Yelle, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, The Cool Kids, Kool Keith, Cage the Elephant, Chairlift, White Rabbits, Electric Touch, The Postelles, Black Gold, College Humor Live, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander and Jim Jeffries.

Sunday, August 2: Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, College Humor Live, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Todd Barry.

Tickets go on sale this Friday April 3 at noon. Single day tickets are $89 and three-day passes are $199 for a “limited time.”

 
Ghostland Observatory @ Webster Hall 2008
Image: Chris La Putt

Wondering what to do tonight? As usual, there are many options:

• Okkervil River members Will Sheff and Charles Bissell (also of The Wrens) will be playing an acoustic set at Sound Fix. FREE.
• Melpo Mene at Cake Shop upstairs at 6 pm. FREE.
• The Subjects at Union Hall. Tickets are $7.
• The Virgins at Bowery Ballroo. Tickets are $15.
• Ghostland Observatory at Terminal 5. $25 Tickets.
• Bon Iver and The Tallest Man on Earth at Town Hall. Sold Out.
• Takka Takka, Loney Dear, Melpo Mene, Alina Simone at the Bell House. Tickets are $10.
• Love as Laughter at The Studio at Webster Hall at 8 pm. $10 Tickets.
• The Butthole Surfers and Black Dice at The Warsaw. Tickets are $25.
• Alan Braxe and Lifelike with Justin Miller (DFA) and Jacques Renault (DFA), Alex English and Daisy O’Dell in the main room at Webster Hall. In the Marlin room will be Grandmaster Flash and Dimitry!!! and in the Studio will be DJ Jess and DJ Alex Malfunction of Trash, along with a live performance by Ramesh of Voxtrot. Tickets are $10.
• Kieren Hebden (Four Tet) and Steve Reid at (le) Poisson Rouge. $15 Tickets.
• Antipop Consortium, The Bomb Squad, Dragons of Zynth, Chin Chin and more at Knitting Factory. $25 Tickets.
• The Spinto Band and Oxford Collapse at Maxwell’s. Tickets are $12.
• The Mae Shi, Screaming Females, Hearts of Darknesses, Snakes Say Hiss at Silent Barn.
  
• Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers at Santos Party House. $8 Tickets.

Lots of shows went on sale this week, including:

The Ting Tings on November 1 @ Webster Hall

Ghostland Observatory on December 12 @ Terminal 5

Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos, Audrye Sessions, Cory Chisel, Shugo Tokumaru, Love as Laughter, Wild Sweet Orange, The Wandering Sons CMJ Show on October 22 @ Bowery Ballroom

Ben Sollee on November 12 @ Mercury Lounge

I’ve posted about how awesome most of these bands are before…all good shows to catch!

And tickets are still available for Lucinda Williams on October 3 @ WaMu Theater

Spiritualized @ Pitchfork Music Festival

Lots going on and lots for free. Check it:

Friday

Atlas Sound, Crystal Stilts @ South Street Seaport. Free.

Ween @ McCarren Park Pool. $37.50.

Sound of Urchin, Tragedy @ Music Hall of Williamsburg. $10.

Valient Thorr, Early Man, Monotonix, The Golden Error @ Bowery Ballroom. $15.

Black Kids, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Zambri @ Santo’s Party House. $15.

The Philip Glass Ensemble @ Prospect Park Bandshell. Free.

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Terminal 5. $23.

The Subways, the Postelles @ Gramercy Theater. $15.

Freedy Johnston (performing Can You Fly), Steve Wynn and The Miracle Three (performing Days Of Wine & Roses) @ Maxwell’s. $15.

Saturday

P.S. 1 Warm Up with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem) @ P.S. 1. $10.

Ghostland Observatory, the Jealous Girlfriends, Bear Hands @ Prospect Park Bandshell. Free.

She & Him @ Terminal 5. $25.

Gang Gang Dance, Stars Like Fleas, Harmony Club @ Bowery Ballroom. $15.

It Lives, TK Webb, Black Acid @ Glasslands. tba.

Awesome Color, Knyfe Hytes, Kocho-Bi-Sexual @ Knitting Factory. Free.

Japanther, Team Robespierre, Boogie Boarder, Face of Cain @ Less Artists More Condos. tbs.

The Big River Project: The Music of Johnny Cash @ WFC Winter Garden. Free.

Spiritualized @ Music Hall of Williamsburg. $39.50.

Spanish Harlem Orchestra @ Damrosch Park. Free.

Sunday

MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Ting Tings @ McCarren Park Pool. Free.

!!! @ Music Hall of Williamsburg. $20.

Taj Mahal, Skatalites, Los Pinguos @ Central Park Summerstage. Free.

Bear Hands, Villa Vilna @ Union Hall. Free.

!!! @ Pitchfork Music Festival

All Photos Permission: Devorah Klein

Photo by Chad Nicholson, licensed under CC by SA.

McCarren Pool is back for another summer as a concert venue–woohoo! Last year I saw many excellent bands there, including Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ghostland Observatory, Spank Rock and friends, and the Thermals. This year, the first show they announced is not a free one (boo), but it is a good one–M.I.A. and Holy Fuck on June 6. Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon.

Austin-bred funkadelic Ghostland Observatory who have been steadily building a fan base outside of their hometown will release Robotique Majestique on February 26. I, for one, am psyched! They will return to Webster Hall on March 28 as part of their tour to support the new album. I highly recommend going to the show if you’ve never seen them. Seeing Aaron Behrens’ braids swing around is reason enough alone.