Well, today seems to be the day for festival announcements. In addition to the IBMA news, we also have YR15 -- a three-night bash in honor of local label Yep Roc Records' 15-year anniversary. That will happen Oct. 11-13 at Cat's Cradle with a lineup featuring some of the finest acts from the Grammy-winning label's roster, including Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock, Fountains of Wayne, John Doe and more. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Check here for details.

Also on the festival front, the latest TRKfest has been set for July 21. It will again be at Piedmont Biofuels in Pittsboro (with Haw River Ballroom as a backup venue if the weather's bad). Lineup details still to come.

Major congratulations go out to Triangle-based Yep Roc Records, which notches a pretty impressive chart milestone this week -- its first album to crack the top half of the Billboard 200 album-sales chart. The label hit it with "Sky Full of Holes," the latest release from Fountains of Wayne. The album sold 11,728 copies (also Yep Roc's highest one-week sales figure for any title) to debut at a flashy No. 37.