*(The above picture is from yesterday’s rally).

A couple weeks ago I reported on The Arcade Fire and Superchunk playing a Barack Obama rally. Now…much beloved, former indie-rock, now turned major label band The Decemberists played a rally for presidential hopeful Barack Obama yesterday in Portland, Oregon.

A record crowd of 75,000 came out in support of Obama and The Decemberists opened the proceedings.

It’s amazing to see this many people coming out in support of a candidate. It’s also really great to see pretty big bands backing a presidential hopeful. Like I mentioned here before, I’m not usually that into the idea of bands tying themselves too closely with politics, but it definitely is effective in getting their fans at least aware of the process.

There’s almost no question, apparently Obama is THE indie-rock/rock candidate of choice.

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Well, this happened a couple weeks ago but I thought it was worth mentioning here. It seems several bands of the Indie Rock variety have done rally’s/concerts to support presidential candidate Barack Obama.

One of the most publicized so far is The Arcade Fire and Superchunk playing a few concerts in support of Obama in North Carolina. On one hand, while I’m not the biggest fan of either band and I think musicians opinions on politics don’t really matter, it is a really good way to get younger people to vote or care about voting…if not just to be aware of the current presidential race.

The story was covered by Pitchfork and they have pictures, anecdotes, etc…at their page.

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