AWESOMECON

Its AM here in the Bay and I am catching up on my RSS feeds for the morning when I stumbled onto a link to a new National track via Stereogum.  From there I went to the MySpace page hosting the track and I found the “Dark Was The Night” project, which is working in combination with the Red Hot Organization to help support treatment for HIV/AIDS patients.  The “Dark Was The Night” is a 32 exclusive track compilation coming out on Feb. 16th 2009.  This list is amazing, as Niki put it a “who’s who of indie darlings.”  Here is a list of the acts:

Andrew Bird, Antony + Bryce Dessner, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Beirut, Blonde Redhead + Devastations, Bon Iver, Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner, The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez, Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti), Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors + David Byrne, Kevin Drew, Feist + Ben Gibbard, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear + Feist, Iron & Wine, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Kronos Quartet, Stuart Murdoch, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, The National, The New Pornographers, Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch, Riceboy Sleeps, Dave Sitek, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Yeasayer, Yo La Tengo

I pretty much own albums from every artist on this list.  My god I am a “Indie pop” whore.  I need to spend some time getting away from “known” bands so that I can refresh my hipster cred.