Kitchen Cynics, Thurston Moore, Lightning Bolt to Play Terrastock6

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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-01/17.shtml#terrastock

Lightning Bolt, Thurston Moore to Play Terrastock 6

Kavitha Chekuru and Amy Phillips report:

Long before freak-folk was cool and everybody's little brother wanted to be in a noise band, the out-there journal Ptolemaic Terrascope and its Terrastock festival were showcasing the world's finest purveyors of synapse-melting experimental rock. Neutral Milk Hotel, Acid Mothers Temple, Silver Apples, Flying Saucer Attack, Olivia Tremor Control, Mountain Goats, and, of course, Sonic Youth all played Terrastocks past, frying their cerebellums alongside countless other bands that would have been huge, had they the foresight to become friends with Devendra Banhart and Black Dice back in the day.

This spring, Terrastock will return from a four-year absence to show all the newbies who's boss. Thanks to Ptolemaic Terrascope and the record label Secret Eye, Terrastock 6 will take over the Pell Chafee Performance Center and AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island (home of the first stock, back in 1997) from April 21-23.

Veteran acts like Cul de Sac, Bardo Pond, Charalambides, Damon and Naomi, the Green Pajamas, Windy & Carl, and Tom Rapp of psych godfathers Pearls Before Swine will join upstarts like Lightning Bolt, Black Forest/Black Sea, Larkin Grimm, Marissa Nadler, and Spires That in the Sunset Rise at the festival. Finnish favorites Avarus and Kemialliset Ystvt will play for the first time in the U.S., as will Australia's Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood and England's Thought Forms. (Sadly, Terrastock 6 will also feature the last-ever U.S. performance from Japanese acid-psych monsters Ghost.)

Fursaxa, Glenn Jones, the Kitchen Cynics, Sharron Kraus, Landing, the Magic Carpathians Project, Major Stars, MV/EE Medicine Show, Kinski, Paik, Jack Rose, Salamander, St. Joan, Spacious Mind, Tanakh, and Urdog will all share the good vibes as well.

And what would an experimental festival be without a Sonic Youth side project? Terrastock 6 will also feature a performance from the excellently named College Girls Gone Wild, which is a collaboration between SY's Thurston Moore, Dan Ireton (aka Dredd Foole) of Volcano Suns and Cul De Sac, and Matt Valentine and Erika Elder of Tower Recordings and MV/EE Medicine Show. BYO boobies and beer.

* Terrastock 6: http://www.terrascope.co.uk/TerrastockPages/terrastock6.html

* Secret Eye: http://www.secreteye.org/

[Alan Cynic]

I'm looking forward to it!!!

(Also doing a show with Landing and Paik in Boston a few days before, and hopefully another couple in New York).

[StewCat]

GO ALAN!!!!!!!! thats so ace!!!!!! CAN I COME ALONG

[Alan Cynic]

I'd be delighted to see you!

There have been rumours that there might be one or two folk from Aberdeen in the audience.

[mmd040]

Now that's a festival! Did I mention I saw Windy & Carl in Spain in November?

[Alan Cynic]

They're great (in a laid-back kind of way....saw them in 2002, and have some of their recordings).

Did I tell you that I used to be a card-carrying member of the George Formby Society, and once hauled my son into a meeting in Blackpool?

[HeinzHines]

I do believe i said a few months ago the special guest would be Lightning Bolt!

I would be more jealous than i am already apart from i am now going to see them in May....good times