Primavera Sound, my favourite festival in the world, takes place between the 25th and the 29th of May this year. We’ll be there, with our Ray Bans and our camera. See you on the grassy bit?

Lineup 2011 (my picks in bold):

Aias (SPA)

Ainara LeGardon (SPA)

Animal Collective (US)

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (US)

Arto Lindsay (US)

Autolux (US)

Avi Buffalo (US)

Baths (US)

Battles (US)

Belle & Sebastian (UK)

Berlinetta (SPA)

Big Boi (US)

Blank Dogs (US)

BMX Bandits (UK)

Caribou (CAN)

Carte Blanche (FRA)

Caspa (UK)

Cloud Nothings (US)

Comet Gain (UK)

Connan Mockasin (NZL)

Cults (US)

Cuzo + Damo Suzuki (SPA/JAP)

Dan Melchior und Das Menace (UK)

Darkstar (UK)

Das Racist (US)

Deakin (US)

Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 (NZL)

Del Rey (US)

DJ Shadow (US)

DM Stith (US)

Ducktails (US)

Dúo Cobra (SPA)

Echo & The Bunnymen performing Heaven Up Here & Crocodiles (UK)

Einstürzende Neubauten (GER)

El Guincho (SPA)

El Mató A Un Policía Motorizado (ARG)

Emeralds (US)

Explosions In the Sky (US)

Factory Floor (UK)

Field Music (UK)

Fleet Foxes (US)

Ford & Lopatin (US)

Gang Gang Dance (US)

Girl Talk (US)

Glasser (US)

Glenn Branca Ensemble (US)

Gold Panda (UK)

Gonjasufi (US)

Grinderman (UK)

Half Japanese (US)

Holy Ghost! (US)

Incarnations (US)

Interpol (US)

Islet (UK)

James Blake (UK)

Jamie XX (UK)

John Cale & Band + BCN216 perform PARIS 1919 (UK)

John Talabot (SPA)

Julia Kent (CAN)

Julian Lynch (US)

Kode9 And The Space Ape + Kode9 Burial Set (UK)

Kokoshca (SPA)

Kurt Vile & The Violators (US)

La Célula Durmiente (SPA)

Las Robertas (CRC)

Les Aus (SPA)

Lichens (US)

Lindstrom (NOR)

Low (US)

Lüger (SPA)

M. Ward (US)

Male Bonding (UK)

Matthew Dear Live (US)

Me And The Bees (SPA)

Mercury Rev perform Deserter’s Songs (US)

Mogwai (UK)

Money Mark (US)

My Teenage Stride (US)

Nisennenmondai (JAP)

Nosoträsh “Popemas” (SPA)

Odd Future (US)

Of Montreal (US)

Oneohtrix Point Never (US)

Ornamento Y Delito (SPA)

P.I.L. (Public Image Limited) (UK)

Papas Fritas (US)

Pere Ubu plays “The Annotated Modern Dance” (US)

Perfume Genius (US)

Phosphorescent (US)

Pissed Jeans (US)

PJ Harvey (UK)

Pulp (UK)

Rubik (FIN)

Salem (US)

Seefeel (UK)

Shellac (US)

Simian Mobile Disco (UK)

Sonny & The Sunsets (US)

Sufjan Stevens (US)

Suicide (US)

Suuns (CAN)

Swans (US)

Tennis (US)

The Album Leaf (US)

The Annuals (US)

The Black Angels (US)

The Fiery Furnaces (US)

The Flaming Lips (US)

The Fresh & Onlys (US)

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (US)

The Monochrome Set (UK)

The National (US)

The Soft Moon (US)

The Suicide Of Western Culture (SPA)

The Tallest Man On Earth (SWE)

The Vaccines (UK)

The Walkmen (US)

Thelematicos (SPA)

Toundra (SPA)

Triángulo De Amor Bizarro (SPA)

tUnE-yArDs (US)

Twin Shadow (US)

Ty Segall (US)

Warpaint (US)

Wolf People (UK)

Yuck (UK)