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March 28, 2024

Matador lineup announced: GBV, Pavement, Sonic Youth and more

Pavement

Michael Mishak

Pavement performs at Coachella 2010

Let the guesswork end ... well, most of it. Matador Records has revealed the majority of the lineup for its three-day 21st birthday bash — scheduled for October 1-3 in Las Vegas at the Pearl — and it looks pretty ridiculous from here. As we reported earlier, Pavement and Sonic Youth will be there. So will the hotly rumored Belle & Sebastian.

The fourth headliner? A reunited Guided By Voices, which played its last show on December 31, 2004. Better yet? The Matador poster promises GBV will bring back its "classic lineup," the 1993-1996 version behind indie-rock album pillars Bee Thousand and Alien Lanesfeaturing guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell and, of course, frontman Robert Pollard.

Also on the bill: Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The New Pornographers, Superchunk, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Guitar Wolf, Chavez, Girls, Harlem, Cold Cave, Shearwater, Kurt Vile and Jeffrey Joe Jensen. In case that's not enough, more artists are promised for a subsequent July 5 announcement.

Ticket particulars are also promised for July 5.

— Originally published on LasVegasWeekly.com

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