Popsickle Fest is a go!

November 9th, 2010

Grant Trimboli

Motion City Soundtrack will have a festival in their hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota that is set to take place on December 18th at First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry. MCS will have Minus The Bear, Foxy Shazam, Gold Motel, A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Now Now Every Children, One For The Team, Gospel Gossip, Take Cover and the Chord And The Fawn supporting them as the main act. More bands will be announced later so keep it locked here for more info.

Read what MCS frontman Justin Pierre had to say about the festival:

“We wanted to start a festival in the vein of what Lollapalooza was to me in the early ’90s—a bunch of bands that most likely would never have toured together, but were all doing something interesting and unique in that particular point in time. Our version of that will be much smaller of course, but the idea is the same. We hope to make this an annual festival that takes place in Minnesota every winter and hopefully can continue to grow in both scope and girth.”

Tickets go on sale Nov. 13. The first 100 tickets purchased at the First Avenue box office will be $12.50. All other advance tickets are $22.50.