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For two consecutive April weekends, on the banks of the beautiful blue Danube, indie floatsam and noise-rock jetsam shall cascade through Krems, Austria's Donaufestival. The first, April 19-21, will host Sunn O))), Matmos, the Notwist, Fennesz, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, among others; the second, April 27-30, packs Patrick Wolf, Deerhoof, Jamie Lidell, ESG, Gang of Four and Boredoms, plus many more

The fest comes complete with a theme-- "Unprotected Games"-- and a resulting mission statement, although I suspect the mission read a little bit better auf Deutsch: "Under the motto 'unprotected games,' the donaufestival 07 atttempts - without claims to a kitsch utopia of change - to confuse the inner and outer view of (social) game systems with unprotected, artistic games, to swap positions on the thin red line between virtuality and reality and to simulate a risky match of reevaluation and anarchic freedom." There's also some stuff about the killing of Bambi's mother.

I wonder where that Will Oldham song about doing it with a mountain fits in.

Tickets are available by venue, day, and weekend, and are available now. Registration for Jamie Lidell's "Workshop" ends March 31, though, so if you ever wondered how to belt your white ass off like Otis Redding, that particular ship's sailing soon.

Also playing: Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Larsen and Johann Johannson, Six Organs of Admittance, Jason Forrest, Current 93, Gonzales, Parenthetical Girls, Mocky, Alec Empire, JG Thirlwell, Priestbird, KTL, and Alan Vega.