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College DJs can be an insular bunch. Sometimes they're so busy crafting radio shows around concepts like "three dissonant 15th Century classical records playing simultaneously" that they forget there are listeners on the other end. And, well, sometimes there aren't. Not so the folks at James Madison University, host school to the annual MACRoCk (Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference).

This year MACRoCk celebrated its tenth anniversary, and for its birthday, students of JMU's School of Media Arts and Design are giving us a present: the MACRoCkumentary DVD. Detailing the events of MACRoCk X, which occurred this year during the weekend of April 7 & 8, MACRoCkumentary features performances by ten of this year's bands (including the Walkmen, the Wrens, Man Man, and Voxtrot) in addition to a 26-minute documentary about the history of the conference. The doc includes interviews with the conference's founders, band members, and Ian MacKaye, who played the conference as a member of Fugazi in 2002 and whose Dischord label is a clear influence on MACRoCk's mission to preserve the "youthful activism and self-possessed passion that has come to define the independent genre."

MACRoCkumentary is available for purchase online now. Proceeds from all sales go to the MACRoCk committee and the School of Media Arts "One Day/One University" Scholarship Fund. You can see the DVD's live performance tracklist after the jump.

I'm a MACRoCkumentary:

01 Dear and Glorious Physician - "Whiskers"
02 Man Man - "Feathers" and "Engwish Bwudd"
03 Shapiro - "Holding Out" and "L.E.A.V.I.N.G."
04 The Walkmen - "All Hands and the Cook"
05 The Wrens - "Boys, You Won't"
06 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start - "Rachel Strayer" and "Melanie Flury"
07 Valkyrie - "Withered Tree"
08 VCR - "ScaredOfVCR.com"
09 Voxtrot - "Raised By Wolves"
10 William Elliott Whitmore - "Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors"