Spoon to headline Maha music event

Add another entry to your summer concert schedule.

The Maha Music Festival has announced the headliner for this summer's show: Spoon.

The festival, in its second year, will take place July 24 at Lewis & Clark Landing.

The popular indie rock band is in the midst of touring to support their recent album, “Transference,” which debuted at No. 4 on Billboard's charts when it was released in February.

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Spoon, live at Stubb's at SXSW (03/17/2010)



Via NPR.

The band's tour kicked off in Austin, Texas, with a show at South By Southwest and will continue moving through the U.S. until mid-April. They will travel on to Australia in May.

Spoon was named the No. 1 artist of the decade by Metacritic.com, a site that compiles and composites reviews.

The band's SXSW performance got great reviews.

“Most took in the heady, mutant funk with vigorous head nods ... Spoon don't play bad gigs,” Pitchfork.com said.

And from Spin Magazine: “If (Spoon frontman) Britt Daniel couldn't get elected mayor of this music mecca, he'd at least be toasted as the crown prince of its indie constituency, judging from the adulation showered on the quartet during its 75-minute performance at the outdoor stage at Stubb's.”

Other bands in the festival's lineup have not been announced, but organizers expect to have a similar number of bands as last year's festival, which included 10 bands, four of which were local groups. They expect to announce more information about those groups sometime in April.

Tickets to the festival will go on sale in April, festival organizers said. Prices have not yet been announced.

Find more information at www.mahamusicfestival.com.

Last year's festival featured headliners Dashboard Confessional and G. Love & Special Sauce. The show drew more than 3,000 people, organizers said.

Contact the writer:

444-1557, kevin.coffey@owh.com

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