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July 28, Sonic Youth'll drop the kids off at Greenpoint, Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool, opting to give their native land a crack at their ATP/Don't Look Back-curated Daydream Nation recreation tour. All the classics will be there, dolled up in their Speedos and laying out on their designer towels: "Teenage Riot", "Eric's Trip", that song where Mike Watt calls and warns Thurston about his memory going out the window. Shoulda used a higher SPF, Ace.

Pre-sale tickets for the splash went on sale today. And while McCarren Park Pool's sure-to-be-sensational summer lineup is still shaping up, there is a succulent Cat Power/Built to Spill show slated for July 7.

Of course, Brooklyn's not the only place to pledge allegiance to the Nation; ATP's set up gigs in Germany, Italy, California, and now, Scotland, in which Kim and co. will tear through the Reagan-era ruckus. And then, there's this little thing in Chicago you might've read about, at which you'll see Daydream, GZA swinging his Liquid Swords, and Slint leading a guided tour through Spiderland. It's called the Pitchfork Music Festival, and for $50, well, you could catch all that, plus the New Pornographers, Battles, Stephen Malkmus, Cat Power, Yoko Ono, and a couple dozen more. Nation's one of those records that deepens with each spin, so we'd never daydream of discouraging folks to see it played through twice (it's gonna be, like, totally historic): but we would like to further extend our proverbial couches and sleeping bags to any and all who care to take a trip to the Second City.

Those of you looking to hit the snooze button on your Daydream can do so June 12, when the record gets the lavish repackage treatment it so verily deserves. Sonic Youth'll be playing some normal, non-Daydream shows and a whole mess of festivals this summer, so check 'em out.

I can't see anything at all; all I see is Lee:

05-17-20 Brooklyn, NY – No Fun Fest #
06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Parc dèl Forum (Primavera Sound) ^
06-15 Interlaken, Switzerland - Greenfield Festival
06-16 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
06-18 St. Petersburg, Russia - Manezh Kadetskogo Korpusa
06-19 Moscow, Russia - B1 Club
06-21 Munich, Germany - Tollwood Festival ^
06-23 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-24 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-26 Cologne, Germany - E Werk
06-27 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Halle ^
06-29 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
07-01 Cergy-Pontoise, France - Furia Sound Festival
07-03 Istres, France - La Palio
07-05 Turin, Italy - Spaziale ^
07-06 Ferrara, Italy - Piazza Castello ^
07-07 Rome, Italy - Romano di Ostia Antica ^
07-13 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival/ATP Don't Look Back) ^
07-19 Berkeley, CA - Berkeley Community Theater ^
07-20 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre ^
07-28 Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Park Pool ^
08-15 Porto, Portugal - Paredes de Coura Festival
08-22 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 1 ^
08-26 Vienna, Austria - Openair at ARENA
08-29 Paris, France - La Vilette Jazz Festival
08-30 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back) ^
08-31 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back) ^
09-01 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back) ^
09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic

# Thurston Moore/Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon/Yoshimi
^ performing Daydream Nation