Pitchfork

From all over the mid-Atlantic states, they'll come: the few, the underpaid, the geeky. Yes, the crappy-promo-CD-envelope-openers of the region's college radio stations will converge on Harrisonburg, VA this weekend (April 4-5) for the annual Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (aka MACRoCk) conference.

Beyond all the talk of soundboards and CMJ charts is a fine rock'n'roll festival, if you know just where to look. Tucked away in several of Harrisonburg's music venues like a rare full-art copy, you'll find the likes of Elf Power, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Maps and Atlases, Aloha, Owen, Videohippos, Unwed Sailor, the Forms, the Extraordinaires, Anathallo, Fin Fang Foom, and Cloak/Dagger, among so many others.

Registration is still open, so even if you don't spend many of your wee hours of the morning playing Captain Beefheart to an imaginary audience, you're still free to MACRoCK around the clock.