Pitchfork: Sonic Youth, Low Play Don't Look Back Down Under

Sonic Youth, Low Play Don't Look Back Down Under

Sure we're biased, but we think the folks at ATP are a reasonable bunch. And realizing that maybe Australians don't want their entire musical history judged on the merits of 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, the festival's organizers have decided to celebrate classic albums Australian and otherwise by bringing their Don't Look Back series to the continent for the first time next year.

In January and February, the series will feature Don't Look Back mainstays Sonic Youth doing their 1988 classic Daydream Nation and Low doing their 2001 gem Things We Lost in the Fire, in addition to a trio of Australian artists. Kim Salmon's Scientists will tear through their proto-grunge 1983 EP Blood Red River, post-punkers Died Pretty will do their 1992 album Doughboy Hollow, and ex-Saint Ed Kuepper will perform 1995's Honey Steel's Gold.

The full Australian Don't Look Back schedule, as it stands now, is after the jump.

Aussies, don't look back:

01-11 Melbourne - East Brunswick Club *
01-19 Sydney - Spiegeltent (Sydney Festival) *
02-08 Sydney - Enmore Theatre #@
02-09 Brisbane - The Tivoli #@
02-13 Perth - Beck's Music Box (Perth International Arts Festival) !
02-14 Adelaide - The Gov #
02-15 Melbourne - The Forum #@
02-16 Fremantle - Fly by Night Club #
02-18 Sydney - Enmore Theatre $!
02-20 Melbourne - The Metro $!
02-22 Adelaide - Fowler's Live Courtyard $!
02-23 Perth - Beck's Music Box (Perth International Arts Festival) $

* Low's Things We Lost in the Fire
# Died Pretty's Doughboy Hollow
@ Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold
$ Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation
! Scientists' Blood Red River

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