Stars of the Lid, Matmos, Silver Apples Do Brainwaves

Plus: Marissa Nadler, Windy Weber, His Name Is Alive, J.G. Thirlwell, DJ Steve Stapleton
Stars of the Lid, Matmos, Silver Apples Do Brainwaves

Hey, it's a live music festival, time to get omg totally crunk to teh maxxx rite?? Well, you do what you like, but something tells me the 2008 Brainwaves Festival will be best taken in sober and sitting down.

This year's event descends on the Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts (just outside Boston) from November 21-23 and brings with it the likes of Matmos, Marissa Nadler, Silver Apples, Windy Weber (of Windy & Carl) with Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard), His Name Is Alive, Foetus guy J.G. Thirlwell's Manorexia, Coil offshoot the Threshold HouseBoys Choir, the reclusive Gary Wilson, the underrated Rivulets, Major Stars, Little Annie, Meat Beat Manifesto, and a 15th anniversary Kranky celebration featuring Stars of the Lid, Lichens, Nudge, Boduf Songs, Strategy, and To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. Woo doggie that's a nice bill right there.

What's more, on the ones and twos, a party-starter if there ever was one: Nurse With Wound's Steve Stapleton. So I guess you'll be getting down after all, just not in the way you think.

Posted by Matthew Solarski on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:05pm