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Primavera means spring, the season of rebirth and new beginnings and all that, so who better to rock the Primavera Sound festival than a band who rejuvenated, reinvented, and rewrote pop according to their own rules?

Young Marble Giants, largely dormant until last year and still an extremely rare live spectacle indeed, will treat audiences at this spring's festival to their unique and endearing songfare-- almost all of which can be found on last year's expanded reissue of Colossal Youth. The set times haven't been announced just yet, but the festive happening descends on Barcelona's Parc del Fòrum May 29-31. Our friends at All Tomorrow's Parties have even curated a whole festival stage.

A whole flaming heap of other cool peeps have joined on since our last report as well, and we'd be remiss not to give them some mention. Here goes: Animal Collective, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, Boris, Caribou, Menomena, Sebadoh, Silver Jews, Tindersticks, Times New Viking, Voxtrot, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bill Callahan, Bon Iver, Dr. Octagon, the Go! Team, Atlas Sound, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr., No Age, Simian Mobile Disco, Throbbing Gristle, White Williams, Rufus Wainwright, 808 State, Alan Braxe, Apparat, El Guincho, Ellen Allien, Enon, HEALTH, Prinzhorn Dance School, Six Organs of Admittance, Supermayer, and Why?, among others.

Plus there's a reunited Polvo, and Public Enemy will give It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back yet another go. Barcelona, how we envy thee.