While the organizers are incorporating more of a multimedia vibe at this year’s installment of WMC, the three-day festival still brings together a really dynamic line-up of bands and artists. This year, they’re hooking up attendees with sets from Mr. Gnome, Hawkeye, Smoke Noises, These Knees and plenty more. The whole thing takes place at Cleveland Public Theatre, and tickets for all three days (you must do all three days) run $100. “Entering its fifth year, WMC has generated comparisons to TED and SXSW, but it’s truly one of a kind,” organizers say, and we couldn’t have drawn a finer class of apt comparisons. (We profiled fest creator Jeff Finley earlier this read. Read that
here.)(Eric Sandy)