Voodoo Music Experience Adds Major Bands to Lineup (Spin)It seems that not even hurricane Gustav can slow New Orleans’ Voodoo Music Experience, as festival officials — unfazed by the recent storm and others on the way — have added even more bands to the event’s lineup. More on SPIN.com: > R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails to Headline Voodoo Music Experience ‘08 > Complete Voodoo Music Experience Lineup Unveiled > FOB’s Pete Wentz Breaks .
Thurston Moore, Matmos, Andrew WK, Mercury Rev Play Thirlwell-Curated Month at the Stone (Pitchfork)The experimental music community, for the win: JG Thirlwell, aka Foetus , has curated the entire month of September at improv/jazz innovator John Zorn’s NYC club, the Stone . The calendar is so stuffed with awesome artists that Carla Bozulich and Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes have already played, and yet the lineup’s power has barely been dented. Among those still to come at the .
Summer School Rocks (The Breeze)Working at the Paul Green School of Rock Music was one of the greatest experiences of my life. While others complained about summer jobs, spent waiting tables and interning, I genuinely looked forward to every day I had the chance to step into the Chatham, N.J., branch of the school.
Butthole Surfers - quotTongue in Cheek TerrorquotThe band discusses their reissued back catalog in this Austin Chronicle article.