Bird, Furnaces, Fav for Barack Rock Bash

Hype the hope and fight the fear, yo.

By Blurt Staff

Andrew Bird, Les Savy Fav, Eugene Mirman, Guster, the Fiery Furnaces, Heather Lawless, Alina Simone, BLURT blogger Martin Bisi, John Roberts, Adira Amran, Kumail Nanjiani, Lizz Winstead and unspecified "Special Secret Musical Guests" (rumored to be Franz Ferdinand) will all converge on Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg next week, on Oct. 7, to play a special Obama fundraiser. One additional special guest of note: Josh Hamilton, billed as "reading George Saunders on Palin." (That should be fun!)

Tickets to "Barack Rock" will be $40, and the show will also have television screens set up so attendees can watch that night's debate between Obama and McCain in Nashville.

For details go to the Barack Rock MySpace page, which proudly posts the below blurb:

An Obama benefit! Music, Comedy, Action! At The Music Hall of Williamsburg! Tuesday, Oct 7th! Help us Hype the Hope! With ALINA SIMONE, LIZZ WINSTEAD, GUSTER, EUGENE MIRMAN, LES SAVY FAV (Acoustic Spectacular!), MARTIN BISI, JOHN ROBERTS, THE FIERY FURNACES, ADIRA AMRAM, KUMAIL NANJIANI, HEATHER LAWLESS, ANDREW BIRD, AND SECRET MUSICAL GUESTS! Also featuring the fabulous Obama Room, your full-service debate-watching, voter-registering, sign-up-for-volunteering lounge! Hype the hope and fight the fear. Contribute to the campaign! And vigorously volunteer!