Minus the Bear + The Coathangers

This Seattle outfit offers pristine, proggish indie pop, infusing sad-sack emo longing with slippery time signatures, sinuous guitar lines and an accessibly mainstream sensibility. They play alongside unhinged Atlanta punk outfit, The Coathangers. Though the band soon became a serious endeavor after initially forming as a joke in 2006, the trio still retains that original playfulness (see "Nestle in My Boobies" or "Shut the Fuck Up"), and is one of the most seriously hard-rocking acts Georgia's spat out in years.