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The End of the Road Festival, going down over the long weekend of September 14-16 at Larmer Tree Gardens in North Dorset, England, touts itself as "an intimate music festival for just 5,000 people." Guess that kind of explains why glammy David Vandervelde is among the louder acts attendees are likely to see at the fest.

Still, you and 4,999 of your closest mates can mellow your minds to the strains of a seriously impressive lineup, which includes Yo La Tengo, Super Furry Animals, Architecture in Helsinki, I'm From Barcelona, Jens Lekman, the Concretes, the Twilight Sad, Scout Niblett, Danielson, Lambchop, Howe Gelb, My Brightest Diamond, Midlake, Joan as Police Woman, Richard Swift, the aforementioned Vandervelde, Loney, Dear, British Sea Power, David Thomas Broughton, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Robyn Hitchcock, Brakes, Archie Bronson Outfit, Euros Childs, Devastations, the (Band of) Bees, Jim White, King Creosote, Viking Moses!, and a bunch of basically chilled-out artists. What, no Boyz II Men?