The folks heading up the Athens Popfest just released the first round of band announcements for this year's fest set to run October 11-15, 2011 in my favorite town east of the Mississippi.

Featured headliners include Olivia Tremor Control, Bob Mould, Throwing Muses, The Dead Milkmen, and Man Or Astroman? (with 65 more bands still to be announced!) and they will surely turn heads, but usually it's the lesser known bands that end up making big splashes in Athens. Need I remind you that we heard both Black Kids and Pains of Being Pure at Heart for the first time when they played opening daytime slots at the 2007 fest?

One of those lesser known bands on this year's PopFest schedule is Eureka California, an Athens, GA hometown band who has piqued my attention with their garage-rock-brit-pop songs.  My particular favorite song today is "Baby, I'm Your Garbage Man," recorded live at Slaglefest earlier this year.

{photo from the Eureka California facebook page}

{Yes, they are playing the song while riding a train!!! God bless IndieTracks!}

This morning my ipod shuffle brought up Moustache of Insanity's "Imagine" and reminded me of the duo's brilliance. Even though they didn't write this to be a Three Imaginary Girls theme song, I'm singing along with it today as if it was!

The track is from their eponymous 2009 album album (on WeePOP!) and has me even more stoked for their new album, Album of Death, set for a limited edition blood-red vinyl release on August 20, 2011 (on PYT Records / Fika Recordings).

It makes sense I've fallen for M of I's quirky lo-fi pop: One half of the band is Bill of Allo Darlin and Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern fame and the other half is Nik whose @nikvestberg twitterings and photo/video stylings keep me in the loop of all things cool.

And in related moustache news: did you order your Allo Darlin' picture disc vinyl yet? It's double-sided-pretty with side a: Darren (about Darren Hayman), side b: Wu Tang Clan (a The French cover). It's a win win win win win.

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