The 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival lineup has been released. Tickets go on sale on Feb. 19 at noon EST. The festival takes place in Manchester, Tenn. June 9-12.
The final lineup will include 125 bands and 20 comedians.
Here it is:
* Eminem
* Arcade Fire
* Widespread Panic
* The Black Keys
* Buffalo Springfield feat Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Rick Rosas, Joe Vitale
* My Morning Jacket
* Lil Wayne
* String Cheese Incident
* Robert Plant & Band of Joy
* Mumford & Sons
* The Strokes
* The Decemberists
* Ray Lamontagne
* Bassnectar
* Iron & Wine
* Girl Talk
* Primus
* Dr. John and The Original Meters performing Desitively Bonnaroo
* Alison Krauss and Union Station
* Pretty Lights
* Florence & the Machine
* Superjam ft. Dan Auerbach and Dr. John
* Explosions in the Sky
* STS9
* Gogol Bordello
* Beirut
* Big Boi
* Scissor Sisters
* Gregg Allman
* Ratatat
* Global Gypsy Punk Revue curated by Eugene Hütz
* Robyn
* Warren Haynes Band
* Deerhunter
* Opeth
* Atmosphere
* Old Crow Medicine Show
* Bootsy Collins & the Funk University
* Wiz Khalifa
* Matt & Kim
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
* The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
* Mavis Staples
* Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
* Chiddy Bang
* Javanotti
* Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers
* Loretta Lynn
* Cold War Kids
* The Walkmen
* Devotchka
* Wanda Jackson
* Neon Trees
* Portugal. The Man
* Sleigh Bells
* Amos Lee
* Best Coast
* Dãm-Funk
* The Sword
* The Drums
* The Black Angels
* School of Seven Bells
* J. Cole
* Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea
* Wavves
* Junip
* Freelance Whales
* Justin Townes Earle
* Ryan Bingham
* Deer Tick
* Band of Skulls
* Sharon Van Etten
* Abigail Washburn
* Omar Souleyman
* Twin Shadow
* Kylesa
* Man Man
* The Low Anthem
* Alberta Cross
* Railroad Earth
* Jessica Lea Mayfield
* Smith Westerns
* The Head and the Heart
* Karen Elson
* Beats Antique
* 22-20s
* Phosphorescent
* Clare MaGuire
* Hayes Carll
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Here's a quick rundown of the new releases hitting stores this week:
Bright Eyes The People's Key
Cowboy Junkies Demons
Drive-By Truckers Go-Go Boots
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
Rev Theory Justice
Live Nation has announced a 2-for-1 ticket sale for the upcoming Buckcherry, Hellyeah and The Damned Things concert on Feb. 22.
Hellyeah includes members of Mudvayne and Pantera's Vinnie Paul; the Damned Things includes members of Every Time I Die, Fall Out Boy and Anthrax including guitarist Scott Ian.
The ticket sale takes place on Tuesday, Feb. 15 from 12:01 a.m. 11:59 p.m.
For more information, go to livenation.com.
Hellblinki, The Lost Souls Traveling Show, Kenni Falls
The Milestone
Feb. 10, 2011
The Deal: One night, long ago, I stumbled upon Hellblinki at Snug Harbor when they followed a Sonic Death Rabbit set and had my world rocked. Ever since then, I have been in love with them and every time they come into town I am determined to make it out to their show. That's why, when they came through with Kenni Falls and The Lost Souls Traveling Show, I was giddier than Augustus Gloop surrounded by chocolate.
The lineup for the 10th Annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is due at noon tomorrow, so you know those rumor mills are going full speed. Not helping the cause was AC Entertainment's Ashley Capps who sent out a Twitter message last night simply stating, "Holy shit! The line up for #Bonnaroo just went over the top tonight...beyond thrilled. Great line up and some once in a lifetime shows."
With rumors of Arcade Fire as a headliner and the band winning album of the year, I'm guessing that could have sparked his comments. Outside of that you also had a performance by rumored 'Roo attendees Cee-Lo Green and Mumford & Sons. Capps also sent out a Twitter mentioning Esperanza Spalding.
Or perhaps they got some last-minute signings that will make the lineup bigger than he expected. OR, he's just trying to hype his festival in any way that he can.
Other headliner rumors range from Widespread Panic, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy, My Morning Jacket and The Black Keys to anyone from The Rolling Stones or Rage Against the Machine to Radiohead and Eminem. R.E.M. has also been thrown in the mix.
If you look at the recently uploaded videos to Bonnaroo.com, you'll see Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket, Robert Plant and Primus.
Meanwhile, Radiohead has announced that its new album will be available for download on Saturday...
So, here's the summary of who is expected; we'll see tomorrow who is right or wrong:
Arcade Fire
Widespread Panic
Robert Plant and Band of Joy
My Morning Jacket
Primus
The Black Keys
Florence And the Machine
Big Boi
Gregg Allman
Robyn
Mumford & Sons
Those Darlins
Wow, what a night! First off, big congratulations to The Avett Brothers for a fantastic performance and great job backing up Bob Dylan!
Who wasn't surprised by some of the night's biggest awards? Lady Antebellum received the award for Song and Record of the Year, Esperanza Spalding won Best New Artist and Arcade Fire won Album of the Year. Never would have guessed it!
Here were my predictions. Overall, I got a terrible 39 right out of the 109 categories. Some of my "second choices" were correct; and I also oddly talked myself out of some winners... Oh well. With so many surprises in the main categories, I'm not shocked by my results.
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