one800higgins: Refused to play Coachella 2012. The news of At the Drive-In reuniting certainly came as a shock yesterday. While ATDI’s official announcement came just hours before Coachella’s line-up was released, Refused was a secret that Coachella maintained. Refused broke up in ‘98 shortly after the release of their definitive album, The Shape of Punk to Come. They were never around to be a part of the post-hardcore music scene that their quite appropriately titled album helped to shape. In a similar manner to the way Refused ended their career, the band explains their Coachella reunion shows via an open letter posted on their new website. We never did “The shape of punk to come” justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there’s this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who’ve kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes. We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual. See you in the pit. I guess I need to book a flight to California. Talked about this at work today, I would do just about anything to go to this.
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one800higgins:

Refused to play Coachella 2012. The news of At the Drive-In reuniting certainly came as a shock yesterday. While ATDI’s official announcement came just hours before Coachella’s line-up was released, Refused was a secret that Coachella maintained.

Refused broke up in ‘98 shortly after the release of their definitive album, The Shape of Punk to Come. They were never around to be a part of the post-hardcore music scene that their quite appropriately titled album helped to shape. In a similar manner to the way Refused ended their career, the band explains their Coachella reunion shows via an open letter posted on their new website.

We never did “The shape of punk to come” justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there’s this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who’ve kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes.

We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual.

See you in the pit.

I guess I need to book a flight to California.

Talked about this at work today, I would do just about anything to go to this.

Source: one800higgins