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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: stage info

Although there’s no info about which bands will play in which stage on the official website for now, that information is already available for those who downloaded the official Android/iPhone app. For those old-fashioned folks who still sport a Nokia 3310, here’s the distribution of the artists per stage per day:

Thursday, June 7:

Optimus stage

Yann Tiersen

Bigott

Suede

The Rapture

Primavera stage

The Drums

Atlas Sound

StopEstra!

Explosions in the Sky

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Friday, June 8:

Optimus stage

M83

Wilco

We Trust

Rufus Wainwright

Primavera stage

The Walkmen

Yo La Tengo

The Flaming Lips

Linda Martini

ATP stage

Shellac (pictured above)

Rafael Toral

Wolves in the Throne Room

Tall Firs

Codeine

Tennis

Thee Oh Sees

Club stage

Numbers Showcase

The War on Drugs

Esperit!

Other Lives

Chairlift

Beach House

Neon Indian

Black Lips

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Saturday, June 9:

Optimus stage

Kings of Convenience (replacing Björk)

The Right Ons

The xx

Death Cab for Cutie

Primavera stage

The Afghan Whigs

The Weeknd

Gala Drop

Spiritualized

ATP stage

Forest Swords

Dirty Three

Lee Ranaldo

I Break Horses

Sleepy Sun

Siskiyou

Demdike Stare

Club stage

Erol Alkan

James Ferraro and the Bodyguard

Washed Out

Wavves

Baxter Dury

John Talabot

Saint Etienne

Veronica Falls

Mujeres

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Sunday, June 10 (outside main festival site):

Casa da Música

Jeff Mangum

The Olivia Tremor Control

Nick Garrie

James Ferraro and the Bodyguard

Best Youth

Hard Club

You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown

Veronica Falls

Julie and the Carjackers

Kindness

Optimus Primavera Sound 2012 takes place in Porto, Portugal and runs from 7 to 10 June. Buy tickets here.

DSS

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of Montreal, Sala Apolo

It’s Sunday night (not exactly the most rock n’ roll of nights) and I’m watching of Montreal. I haven’t even been drinking, but the balloons, the mischievous piglets, the confetti, the large inflated synthetic boobies (you kinda had to be there), and a mesmerising (not to mention topless) Kevin Barnes sure have the same effect. Having seen them at Primavera Sound last year, I was glad to get a chance to see them in a more ‘intimate’ setting, where, in addition to seeing the setlist in advance, I was able to see the colour of Kevin’s socks, the stealth dancers creeping their way to the front of the stage and the smiles exchanged between band members. Obviously they were never going to play all the songs I would have liked (I’m still dreaming of a Kevin Barnes acoustic set in a tiny back room of a coffee shop), but a set including Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, The Party’s Crashing Us, A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinder and a sped up version of She’s a Rejector still left us singing our hearts out all the way home.

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SAJB

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Viva España

Once on the leading pack of the so-called slowcore movement, Spain hadn’t released an album since they called it a day in 2001. Frontman Josh Haden reformed the band with a new lineup in 2007 and 11 years after I Believe, Spain’s fourth album finally sees the light of day. The Soul of Spain is out next month and you can listen to a beautiful, alt-country tinged track off it, “Sevenfold”, on the player above this post.

Haden et al will be presenting the new album all across Europe (click to see tour dates) after a couple of Los Angeles shows during the month of May, including two concerts in Portugal: Lisbon (Lux) on the 18th, Porto (Hard Club) on the 19th.

DSS

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Codeine reforms, plays Primavera Sound 2012

The best European festival is back in style: after announcing a second installation in Porto, Portugal in 2012, Primavera Sound has just announced the first acts who will play in both editions. Among them is Codeine, one of the quintessential American indie rock bands of the beginning of the 90s who are reforming – original lineup! – to play a series of selected shows in Europe next Spring and reissuing their back catalog. Guided by Voices (Barcelona only), Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Björk, Other Lives and Neon Indian are the other bands who’ll play Primavera next year. That’s quite an impressive early lineup, isn’t it?

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal – 23/10/2011

Trying to make Bolachas more like a “webzine” and less like a deposit of free album downloads, mp3s and video embeds, I’ve decided to start doing reports of live shows; we did some festivals in the past (Primavera Sound, Milhões de Festa, Paredes de Coura) and some proper concerts (I remember writing about a Tindersticks concert at Estarreja, the first Roky Mountains Tour in Madrid with Magnolia Electric Co., John Doe & the Sadies and the Handsome Family…) that unfortunately were lost on one of our countless, non-backuped server crashes and whatnot (except for that Milhões de Festa massive preview+report last summer). This time, we went to Guimarães’ (European Cultural Capital in 2012) best venue – and certainly among the best in the whole country and, why not, the Iberian Peninsula) – Centro Cultural Vila Flor, a renewed congress hall who was once part of the Minho university to see one of the best songwriters alive, Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy). And this is how it went.

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