Optimus Primavera Announces 2013 Lineup Including My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Nick Cave and More
Pitchfork will soon be curating a stage at the Optimus Primavera Sound Festival at Parque de Cidade, and the lineup is set to compete with all of what North America has to offer.
Optimus Primavera, happening May 22-26, is presented by the same individuals responsible for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival. For the first time, Pitchfork, who have curated a stage at Primavera before, will be administering the lineup of a stage at Optimus Primavera.
The festival they are now involved in will feature a satisfying blend of the old and new, with the following set to make their mark while there:
Blur
The Breeders
Dan Deacon
Daniel Johnston
Daughn Gibson
Dead Can Dance
Dear Telephone
Deerhunter
Degreaser
Dionsaur Jr.
Do Make Say Think
Explosions in the Sky
Fidlar
Four Tet
Foxygen
Fuck Buttons
Fucked Up
Ghostigital
Glass Candy
The Glockenwise
Grizzly Bear
Guadalupe Plata
Hot Snakes
James Blake
Jlio Bashmore
L’hereu Escampa
Liars
Local Natives
Los Planetas
The Magician
Manel
Meat Puppets
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Memoria de Peixe
Merchandise
Metz
My Bloody Valentine
Neko Case
Nick cave & The Bad Seeds
Nurse with Wound
Om
Paus
Pegasvs
Rodriguez
Roll the Dice
Savages
The Sea and Cake
Shellac
Swans
Titus Andronicus
White Fence
Wild Nothing