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Index Festival To Announce 2014 Lineup at Free Trees Show with Ume, Booty Fade.

For the third incarnation of their Deep Ellum-hosted Index Festival, the folks at Spune Productions and Trees have decided to turn their announcement of who's playing this year's expanded three-day fest into a separate event in and of itself.

To that end, the first round of bands playing this year's September 26, 27 and 28 affair will be announced as part of a free concert at Trees on Tuesday, June 17 that'll feature Austin shredders UME, Dallas party monsters Booty Fade and other, as-yet-unnamed acts. The catch? You'll have to RSVP here to attend — and, in doing so, you'll opt in to emails from North Texas' most recent entrants to the events listing game, Do214.

Also? Starting on Wednesday, organizers will begin selling reduced-price, blind pre-sale tickets to this fall's festival until the first crop of bands is announced on June 17. And, judging from previous years' lineups alone, we can all but guarantee it'll be something worthy of your hard-earned dollar.

Cover image by Kathy Tran.