If you’re an indie-pop nerd, Athens, Georgia is the Mecca for you and your ilk. So it’s no surprise that I flipped over the 2007 Happy Happy Birthday to Me Athens Popfest lineup. It’s by no means complete yet, but it’s already enough to get mouths watering.

Athens Popfest 2007 Partial Lineup
Daniel Johnston, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Circulatory System, Elekibass, Dark Meat, Casper & the Cookies, High Water Marks, Red Pony Clock, Bunnygrunt, the American Revolution, Cars Can Be Blue, M Coast, Darren Hanlon, We Versus the Shark, Ideal Free Distribution, Poison Control Center, Cinemechanica, How I Became the Bomb, the Smittens, Velcro Stars, Kite Flying Society, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fishboy, Ryan Anderson, Birds of Avalon, Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies, Yellow Fever, New Sound of Numbers, Titans of Filth, Patience Please, Venice is Sinking, Hat Company, Christopher’s Liver, Black Kids, Jerk Alert