{Orca Team / Elf Power photos from their MySpace pages}

This October is so full of amazing shows it's far from clever to simply call it rOctober (which has yet to prevent me one bit from doing so). We can't stop talking about the fact that our dreams are going to come true many times over during the course of the month with the likes of The Drums, Superchunk (featured in last month's podcast) / Teenage Fanclub / Telekinesis, James, Liz Phair, Belle & Sebastian, and The Vaselines are all coming to Seattle. You can imagine the hard time we had narrowing down what bands to feature in this month's Imaginary Mixtape to illustrate just how lucky we are going to be in the coming weeks. Have a listen to just a few of our recommendations for what to see this month in a wee concise sampler.

You can listen to a stream of the podcast below or download the MP3 version of the podcast on the imaginary bandcamp page. If you are the type that likes to listen to podcasts in itunes, download the .m4a file here {it's one single file with fancy chapter markers!} and then open it in your itunes {big thanks to Jigsaw Records for hosting the file!}.

 

Tracklisting: Imaginary Mixtape - October 2010:

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The Athens PopFest schedule has been announced and boy oh boy is this year's a doozy.

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at High Dive

Elf Power's solid set was no surprise to me since I've been a fan since the mid 90's when I made countless trips between Atlanta and Athens photographing bands and avoiding college.

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To be entered to win, simply email us before April 13th at midnight. We'll notify the lucky imaginary winners by email.

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There will be some Elephant 6 goodness in the house tonight! Elf Power are headlining tonight's show at the Crocodile and with them they will likely bring their moog, accordion, clarinet and, of course, guitar indie-rock with a slight psychedelic overtone.

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Find out what's in the stars -- and the record stores -- for you for May-June 2006, including reviews of the latest releases from Roy, Elf Power, Mountain Con, The Coup, Trapped By Mormons, and more.

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