Pitchfork

With a name that borrows from the Clash, a humane and giving spirit is the least we could expect from the Standon Calling festival, and its organizers have delivered.

From August 1-3 in Standon, England, the festival will provide tunes by Super Furry Animals, Los Campesinos!, Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, the Mae Shi, Melt-Banana, Johnny Foreigner, Wild Beasts, Glasvegas, Late of the Pier, Pre, Metronomy, Mystery Jets, the Maccabees, and ex-Orbital member Phil Hartnoll's new DJ duo Long Range, among many others.

As if Standon Calling hadn't given enough with that lineup, there is also the festival's tradition of giving a theme to each year's event. Standon Calling 2008's theme is, somewhat arbitrarily, Japan. The whole country. Look for a "dress-up session" and a "mystical soiree," according to a press release, among other Japanese cultural touchstones.