Pitchfork: Walkmen, Wrens, Man Man Play MACRoCK

All right, college students, time to put down the Frisbee, switch off the Family Guy DVD, and check it: the Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (MACRoCk) is celebrating 10th anniversary this weekend at the friendly campus of Harrisonburg, Virginia's James Madison University (home of the Dukes and Scott Norwood, d'oh!).

This year's conference will take place April 7 and 8, with its most extensive lineup ever. The complete band list, which runs the gamut from rock to metal to spazz to hip-hop, looks like this:

The Walkmen, Man Man, the Wrens, Aloha, Fin Fang Foom, Rah Bras, Haram, Your Highness Electric, Damezumari, Comrade, Widows, Shapiro, Medications, I Am the Avalanche, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, Gospel, Disappearer, We Vs the Shark, Dear and Glorious Physician, Len Bias, Jena Berlin, Worn in Red, Pattern is Movement, Hail Social, VCR, Sinaloa, Tiger Bear Wolf, Body Electric, Red Anthem, Vega, Saxon Shore, Voxtrot, Irving, Ris Paul Ric, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Page France, Owen, William Elliott Whitmore, Jonah Matranga, the Snake the Cross the Crown, Bright, Gregor Samsa, the Extraordinaires, Southerly, Meredith Bragg and the Terminals, the Gunshy, Sparrows Swarm and Sing, Staristdeous, the Cedars, No Hay Brenda, Amy Musser, The Lindbergh Babies, A New Dawn Fades, Spitfire, Autumn Offering, All Else Failed, Hell Within, Forensics, Face Down in Shit, Municipal Waste, Baroness, Unearthly Trance, Earth Ride, Valkyrie, Rosetta, Herod, Immortal Avenger, Backstabbers Inc., the Dream Is Dead, Triac, Blood Quest, Battlemaster, Ankou, Human Abstract, Withered, Site of Suffering, Call Me Lightning, the Number 12 Looks Like You, Ahleuchatistas, Snack Truck, Ultra Dolphins, Dawn Treader, Mass Movement of the Moth, Pyramids, Nitro Tokyo, Dance Danse El Capitain!, Daniel Striped Tiger, El Cid, Aggrocrag, Blacklisted, Down to Nothing, Think I Care, Cold World, Lions of Judah, Fucked Up, Direct Control, the Spark, Government Warning, Frontline, Fight Amputation, Cloak Dagger, Masta Ace, Gym Class Heroes, Wordsworth, Beetnix, Tha Kartel, Red River Rollercoaster, the Earl Brothers.

Whew!

As always, the conference is run entirely by student volunteers and funded only through ticket sales, which are available through the MACRoCk website until tomorrow, and in person at the box office after that. Tix are only $25, roughly 21 cents a band (take that Pitchfork Music Festival!).

All in all, the weekend will include over 120 performances, panels featuring musicians, industry professionals and radio types, a label expo, a film festival, and plenty more.

Past performers at MACRoCk have included Elliott Smith, Fugazi, the Faint, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, and the Dismemberment Plan.