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Sonar Fest Grabs Beasties, Dizzee, Mogwai, Junior Boys
Plus Devo, Justice, Wolf Eyes, Simian Mobile Disco, Cornelius, Various

If all that E! Wild On I constantly find myself losing sleep over is any indication, they party awful hard-y in Spain, which explains how the 14th annual Sonar Festival plans to cram over 50 acts into its three day span. The "multifaceted bill with a party spirit"-- heavy on all things hip-hop, electronic, and experimental-- is coming to Barcelona June 14-16.

Towering over the lineup like an intergalactic robot over the streets of Tokyo are the indefatigable Beastie Boys. Not only are they Friday night's headliners ("featuring all their classics"), but the Beasties will also perform instrumental, sans their usual adenoidal references to 70s sitcoms, at a gala event on Thursday night. A black-tie shindig with the Beastie Boys? Don't they remember how that house looked at the end of the "Fight for Your Right" video?

A hefty lineup and further details are available on the Sonar website, but here are the highlights: Beastie Boys, Devo, Dizzee Rascal, KTL (aka Peter "Pita" Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O)))), Clark, Justice, Mogwai, Junior Boys, Wolf Eyes, Simian Mobile Disco, Black Devil Disco Club, Cornelius, Various, New Young Pony Club, DJ Nu-Mark, Mira Calix, Rahzel & DJ Js-One, DJ Mehdi, Uffie and Feadz, and FM3 Plays the Buddha Machine (that should be interesting!).
Posted by Paul Thompson in festival on Mon: 03-26-07: 02:30 PM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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