Barcelona’s popular San Miguel Primavera Sound festival has just announced the first batch of artists for their 10th anniversary edition, which will take place on May 27th-29th. Panda Bear; Wilco and The New Pornographers, among others, will be joining the already confirmed Pixies and Pavement on what’s shaping up as one of the best line-ups in 2010.
As part of the celebrations, the organizers have asked the fans to vote for their favourite artists of the nearly finished decade. The 10 most popular will be invited to be part of the event. You can check the promising results to date in the festival website’s forums.
The full line-up so far includes:
THE ANTLERS BIS THE BLOODY BEETROOTS CAMARON, LA LEYENDA DEL TIEMPO 30 AñOS DESPUES DELOREAN DUM DUM GIRLS THE FALL GANGLIANS HERE WE GO MAGIC HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS JOKER FEAT. NOMAD THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS PANDA BEAR PAVEMENT PIXIES WILCO WILD BEASTS THE XX
The event will be also holding its cosier autumn version, “Primavera Club”, on December 9th-13th. Full list of participating bands can be checked at MySpace.
The DJ, responsible for some of the most leftfield and innovative records in recent times has been doing his research on Cumbia, the traditional Latin American folk genre, particularly strong in Colombia, that’s experiencing a XXI century electro-facelift, coming from diferent parts of the American continent from Buenos Aires to Brooklyn, and is tipped to be the next big thing in clubs around the world.
His set at last weekend Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, was regarded by many as one of the highlights of the event. Other heavyweights who stormed the seaside Spanish city were Neil Young on a two and a half live set which covered most of his classics; My Bloody Valentine on a double treat playing both outdoors and indoors at the Auditori the next day; Sonic Youth introducing their new album “The Eternal” and Yo La Tengo.
Other standout moments were The Vaselines, Throwing Muses and Jayhawks reunion; Drone kings Sunn)))o and British fine popsters Saint Etienne playing respective classic albums. Jarvis Cocker; Aphex Twin; Lightning Bolt, Alela Diane, Deerhoof, The Pains Of being Pure at Heart and Shellac.
A first taster of DJ/Rupture’s Cumbia findings can be found in the following mix, done for Ghetto Palms.
