I love the whole concept of All Tomorrow’s Parties. I can go see some of my favorite bands and not have to worry about them slipping in 2/3rds of their set full of crappy later or in some cases new “experimental” albums. It’s a concert, i want to connect with the band and I want to hear those songs live that I already have a strong connection with. Going to concerts with bands who have 4+ albums (some of which not that great) at this point has just become a roll of the dice. There’s nothing more excruciating than paying for Built To Spill and instead getting Doug Martsch pretending to be Trey Anastasio for an hour or so.

This years NY edition of ATP on paper is as amazing as some of those early Lollapalooza line-ups. So much so I had to shake my head in disbelief. Not only are you getting My Bloody Valentine playing in the U.S. for the first time in 15 years but some other equally amazing bands with the guarantee that they’re going to be preforming classic albums in their entirety! Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts! Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die! The Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II! And the aforementioned Built to Spill performing Perfect From Now On… and hopefully it won’t be a hippie jam take on it. But if that wasn’t icing enough Polvo, Shellac, Low, Mogwai & Fuck Buttons will also just be preforming!

If you’re going “What the fuck!? How can I take in all that auditory goodness in one sitting” I haven’t hit you with the bad news yet.

All of this awesomeness is spread across 3 day festival at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello, New York. and come with a very un-awesome price tag! Only 3000 tickets are available for the show and they are ONLY sold as full 3 day passes at a cost of $225 per person. But w-w-wait it gets worse. Not only do you have to buy full 3 day passes you HAVE to also stay on the grounds and rent a hotel room for the 3 days! The minimum price for a hotel room which thankfully fits 3 people (1 double bed, 1single bed) is $450 for whole concert. So, if you can round up two of your pals to join you you’re looking at a minimum of $1125 or $375 per person not counting food, travel and “entertainment” expenses which will probably bring this concert to the $450 per person range. So in the course of writing this, what sounded awesome at first now kind of sounds like one of those sports star cruises! $450 for a concert even at 3 days long is I don’t know kind of ridiculous, even for that line-up. But what do I know, people were paying $1000 to see the Police. If you use that as a measuring stick then this is a downright bargain! Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 25th on the ATP website.

Perhaps if they don’t sell out quickly, ATP can try hawking them over at the Home Buying for Hipsters nights sweeping all of Hipsville, U.S.A. AKA Williamsburg. If you’re getting ready to plunk down the kind of cash needed for a mortgage to buy a home & STILL consider yourself a hipster… well then it stands to reason you just may have the kind of scrill needed to fund this once in a life time event with My Bloody Mortgage Payments! I wonder what these hipster specific home buying tricks may be!?? I hope they involve Gang Gang Dance voodoo chant circles meant to bring real estate prices and interest rates down!