For local people who bought presale tickets to the 2016 Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, Feb. 6 was kind of like Eaux Christmas. For those people only, the festival snail-mailed custom-printed mixtapes – yes, actual cassette tapes – featuring B-sides and rarities from some of the artists on the 2016 lineup. In addition to a never-before-listened-to Bon Iver B-side called “Haven, Mass,” the tape includes tracks by Fall Creek Boys Choir (Justin Vernon’s one-off side project with UK producer James Blake), Bruce Hornsby, My Brightest Diamond, Shabazz Palaces, Phil Cook, Nathanial Rateliff, Eau Claire’s own sloslylove, and much, much more. Tweets and buzz are definitely a-flyin’ already, but the full lineup for the Aug. 12-13 festival will be announced just after this issue hits the street, so make sure to watch VolumeOne.org on Feb. 11 to catch our complete coverage!

Rock Fest announced its full lineup last week, and it included some huge names. On July 14-16 in Cadott, you can expect to be throttled by the likes of Slipknot, Hollywood Vampires (which, if you recall, is a supergroup made up of Alice Cooper, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, and actor Johnny Depp), Alice In Chains, Marilyn Manson, and Five Finger Death Punch. General admission sales for the tremendous weekend of rock are officially on sale now. To pick up yours and check out the full lineup, head over to rock-fest.com.

Poliça has a new video for the new song “Wedding” and they aren’t afraid to let its political message shine through; they’d just rather do it with puppets. The video for the song, which is comes from their third full-length album United Crushers (out March 4), puts the band among puppets to help teach a Sesame Street-style lesson about police brutality. The dark synthy undertones of the driving beat hits home a message of uncertainty, mistrust, and paranoia. To check out the video and get up to date on the new record, visit Poliça on social media or their website, thisispolica.com.