Full Article @ http://www.smilepolitely.com/music/dan_blah_opens_up_about_imc_fest/

Smile Politely is giving away 5 free imcfest tickets, read the article on their site to learn how you could get one!

"IMC Fest gets geared up for its first spring run this Friday, and it will keep the Independent Media Center rocking all weekend. 30 local bands are scheduled to perform, starting with Megan Johns at 6 p.m. on Friday, and continuing through until Kilborn Alley wraps things up at 10:35 p.m. on Sunday. There will also be art installations, speakers, fire spinners, and tons more stuff going on. Tickets are $20 for the whole weekend, or $10 per day, and they're available at the door. Proceeds benefit the IMC, and all the excellent organizations that call the IMC home."

The Full Article @ http://the217.com/articles/view/imc_fest_three_days_and_nights_of_local_...

"For the music fan looking to make the best of Boneyard Arts Festival 2009, it is hard to argue against the perks of IMC Fest. Held at the Independent Media Center in Downtown Urbana, IMC Fest is three days (and nights) of predominantly local artists for a price that equates to roughly one dollar per band."

Some awesome features here including:

A slick schedule that on the front page that brings up a performer's image when you hover over a performer with your mouse on the front page schedule
The Right Now feature that allows you to see who's performing now and whats coming up next
MySpace music players on band pages that allow you to check out your favorite band or hear bands that are new to you.

Poke around to find other fun things about the site...

"The World We do not Live in (Yet): visions from Danville Correction Center"
Drawings and Paintings by artist at Danville Prison, work for sale-proceeds go to Books to Prisoners, a UCIMC project that provides books to Illinois inmates at no cost, offering books by mail to all Illinois inmates and operating lending libraries in our two local county jails (http://www.books2prisoners.org/).

Selected work from the following artists
Roberta Bennet, Lainey Waugh, Christina Nordholm, and Chris Evans.

University Art Club Artist Collective
Jennifer Miller, Cassandra Tu, Kyle Preuss, Miranda Singler, Adam Fabianski, Minerva Dorantes, James O'Brian, Baozhen Li, Emma Loret de Mola, Angela Pfammatter, Jamie Leavitt, Vickie Svazas, and Anna Aguilar

Clara Hoag
From sex to saints and their artifacts, art, women, children, money, and commodities, we place power in that which is unknown, misunderstood, unattainable, or changing. I focus my work on this fetish trend. When I work, I think of martyrs, saints, the power of faith, censorship, abjection, mechanization, and spirituality. I'm intensely influenced by African art, art history and religion, and I consider my pieces to be representations of misunderstanding and miscommunication. The physical and occasionally violent nature of my work lends itself to a reconsideration of what it means for an object to have power, and how that power can be destructive, subversive.

"Urban(a) Visions"
by Danielle Chynoweth

"We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: cross generational voices on building social justice movements."