Can you believe it? MusicNOW 2008 is less than a month away! We are pretty excited for this years installment as it features even more great artists and promises to be the best year yet. One of the things I am most looking forward to is the Bang On A Can All-Stars, which features Bryce Dessner (The National, MusicNOW curator) and Glenn Kotche (Wilco) among others.

Bang on a Can does not perform much, but one of their shows will be at MusicNOW. Check out a great article about Bryce, Glenn and MusicNOW right here. Here are a couple great quotes from it.

“I want to push the boundaries a little harder,” Mr. Dessner, back home for a brief spell after extensive touring, said. “I go to a lot of contemporary music concerts these days and people are barely playing. They use a lot of tape loops and electronics. This is going to be more traditional in a way.”

“Mr. Dessner first met Mr. Kotche in 2004 and quickly invited him to play in his Music Now festival, a new-music gathering that the guitarist organizes and promotes in his native Cincinnati, Ohio. The pair have talked about collaborating for a long time. “I love playing in the National,” said Mr. Dessner, who formed the group with his brother Aaron and three friends, in 1999. “It’s not about the grandstanding of any one person. It’s really democratic, but you never totally get what you want, and it can be really frustrating if that’s all you’re doing.”

MusicNOW 2008 is April 2-5th @ Memorial Hall in Cincinnati.