The Veishea entertainment committee has selected the pop rock bands Motion City Soundtrack and hellogoodbye to headline the 2010 lineup.

“We’re really excited about Motion City [Soundtrack],” said Veishea Entertainment Co-Chairman BJ Brugman, junior in agricultural business.

MCS will play Friday evening along with fun., which is opening after the annual Veishea Battle of the Bands. Hellogoodbye is the headliner for Saturday night along with Grammy award-winning country group Emerson Drive, Ames natives Leslie and the LYs and The Envy Corps, and Canadian hip-hop band Down With Webster.

MCS has not played Ames since they headlined the 2005 Freeman Spring Concert. In January, it put out its fourth studio album with Epitaph Records called “My Dinosaur Life.”

MCS will make the stop with fun. — featuring Nate Ruess, the former lead singer of The Format — during its spring tour. MCS is also on the new “Almost Alice” compilation being released to coincide with Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” feature film.

The Envy Corps made it to a major label record deal and a tour with The Killers before going back on its own after having too much difficulty with the label.

Since then the band has self-released an EP, “Kid Gloves,” and has been recording a new full-length tentatively titled “Palawan Scops/I Hate My Host Family.”

“I used to go up to Veishea all the time as a teenager to see bands, and I never really thought about playing it,” said The Envy Corps’ bassist Brandon Darner.

“It always seemed like a pretty big deal to play Veishea.”

Darner said he’s excited to see Ames groups being included alongside national acts for this year’s events and to see local music getting more support.

“Veishea is about Iowa State and showcasing our many talents. How could we claim to be Veishea without including local flavor and supporting our own?” said Entertainment Co-Chairwoman Meagan Hennessy, senior in animal ecology and entomology.

“Iowa State has always been really supportive of The Envy Corps, and we like to get up there and play as often as we can,” Darner added.

The group appeared on campus headlining the 2009 Homecoming Battle of the Bands and will have a double-header night of shows at the M-Shop on Feb. 26.

Brugman said after booking the more expensive headlining bands, the search for opening bands meant finding groups that are less expensive.

“We figured if we were going to look for bands that don’t charge as much, we might as well go local and include acts that would bring in more of the community,” Brugman said.

Leslie and the LYs is lead by Ames native Leslie Hall, self-proclaimed “Gem Sweaterologist,” an Internet superstar who has been seen on VH1’s “Best Week Ever” and will be coming off her second national tour. ISU alumnae Ramona Muse and Laura deWaal make up the LYs.

Down With Webster were recently signed to Universal Motown Records. Their music has climbed the Canadian Hot 100 charts with their mini-album “Time To Win Vol. 1” peaking at No. 21.

“I came into the Veishea office one day and one of our LIVE at Veishea coordinators had this huge smile on his face. I knew something was going on,” Hennessy said. “He sat me down and played DWW over and over again.”

Hellogoodbye had hits off its 2006 album “Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! Oh My!” that peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Top 100.

The band has finished a new full-length album, but is still figuring out the release details.

Emerson Drive, a Grammy Award-nominated Canadian country music band, won Music Video of the Year for its song “Moments” by the Country Music Association.

Ten-thousand tickets, valid for concert admission on both nights, will be available for sale to ISU students, faculty, staff and alumni beginning March 29.

Tickets will be sold at the M-Shop Box Office from 11 a.m.– 5 p.m., Monday–Friday from March 29–April 9. Anyone with a valid ISU ID will be able to purchase up to two tickets at $5 each.

From April 12–17 anyone with a valid ISU ID will have the opportunity to purchase up to an additional five tickets for $8 each.

ISU alumni will be able to purchase tickets by contacting the ISU Alumni Association. Veishea organizers will announce details for alumni ticket sales soon.