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Nah, nobody spiked your poutine luncheon: that there feller immediately to the left of these here words is none other than Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hanging-ten in a crowd surf. Nutty revelry of this sort should abound at Ottawa's Capital Idea! Festival, wrangled together by Canadian music promotion company/blog Mocking Music.

From June 21-30, Some of indie rock's finest will converge on the city to take in a Lynx game or two, bask in the humid continental climate, or maybe check out a show or two from their fellow festees at Ottawa venues like Barrymore's Music Hall, Babylon Nightclub, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the Bronson Centre Theatre.

Capital Idea! is only half-formed at this point. Fest organizers promise over thirty acts in total, and the current lineup's a doozy: the Walkmen, Destroyer, the Wrens, the Fiery Furnaces, Damo Suzuki, Girl Talk, Sunset Rubdown, Xiu Xiu, Frog Eyes, Rock Plaza Central, Crystal Castles, Montag, the Russian Futurists, and Born Ruffians. O, Canada!