What’s in your summer festival backpack? Probably a bottle of sunscreen and a whole lot of drugs, right? Well, leave the Banana Boat at home and use the extra room for poppers and spray glue, baby, cuz you’re headed to the Neon Marshmallow Festival! For four magical days (August 19-22) at Chicago’s Viaduct Theater, over 90 of the world’s most ear-splitting experimental bands will take to two stages in the hopes of reawakening your most deeply repressed memories through the power of loud, loud sounds.
Along with the bands mentioned in the headline, expect to be knocked off your fine fat asses by Ducktails, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Dave Phillips, Tom Carter (Charalambides), unFACT, and Wasteland Jazz Unit, as well as by Astral Social Club and Dolphins into the Future’s sole US performances this year. Speaking of Dolphins into the Future and Ducktails, Matt Mondanile of the latter and Lievens Martens of the former will debut their collaborative project Music of the Sky Islands at the Sunday showcase. Also in exciting Neon Marshmallow collaboration news: Medicine Rocks, a joint effort from Emeralds’ John Elliot and Alex Moskos of AIDS Wolf, will make their US debut at the fest.
And besides all these fine noisy names, there are like fucking 70 more performers for you to scour through on the fest’s website. So get with it, beautiful people!
• Neon Marshmallow Fest: http://www.neonmarshmallowfest.com
• Acid Marshmallow: http://www.acid-marshmallow.com
