Village Voice Picks Obscure Names Out of Hat for Fest
Maura Johnston over at my favorite music blog, Idolator, has let loose with the lineup for this year's Siren Festival, that Village Voice-sponsored shindig out on Coney Island that hipsters all over the country only remember they totally wanted to fly up for after it's already started. Get ready to start pretending you only like the first album by a bunch of bands you've actually never heard, because after headliners The Jicks and Broken Social Scene (and The Helio Sequence, a band that once showed an awesome proclivity for blowing Modest Mouse off the stage), things get pretty damn indie/weird:
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Broken Social Scene
The Helio Sequence
Times New Viking
Jaguar Love
The Dodos
Annuals
Parts & Labor
Dragons of Zynth
These Are Powers
Actually, when you take 'em all together, you could probably make a hell of a Mad Lib about swords 'n' sorcery. The shindig goes down July 19, and is freeFREEfree.

