As promised, the listing of musicians performing at this year’s Bonnaroo is up:

Dave Matthews Band • Kings of Leon • Stevie Wonder • Jay-Z • Tenacious D • Weezer • The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform “Dark Side of the Moon” • The Dead Weather • Damian Marley & Nas • [...]

The Bonnaroo lineup is still a week away from being announced, but you just read the early surprise. The Flaming Lips will play a ‘regular’ set at the midnight slot on Thursday, then at 2:30 a.m. will play DSOTM. If the words ‘Flaming Lips’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ surprised you in the same [...]

I’m not going ’cause I’m an east-coaster, but I have to say, if I lived anywhere near California I would so go to this. Just for fun, here’s a quick list of people I would HAVE to see, granted I only know about 60-70% of the lineup:

Just caught this over at PBS. In this ~intimate venue they’re a little more relaxed, starting the set off with a couple slow ones. They pick up the pace though as you’d expect, and the overall effect makes good for background music for whatever.
I saw a decent amount of their set at Bonnaroo two years [...]

For the past two years, the band has been working on a ‘visual album’, and it’s set to debut this January at the Sundance Film Festival.
Guitarist/singer Avey Tare had the following to say about it: “It’s kinda like a psychedelic film , it’s not like a narrative film or anything… There are more cohesive moments [...]

Undercover.com.au is reporting that the off-the-radar dance duo will be coming back next year, playing the following dates.

As usual, the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is going down the second weekend of June in Manchester, TN and although it’s way too early for any artist announcements, they’ve decided to put up their pre-sale early for the holidays: 11/27 at noon. if you are pretty sure you’re going to go, I highly recommend [...]

A 19-minute EP made entirely of samples, West Coast is a tropical-sounding record that takes on a life of it’s own.
The hip-hop beat that kicks off the album opener “West Coast” sets an optimistic tone, and despite how much the sound might veer from that (not too often), the feeling that track brings permeates throughout [...]

One of my friends spoke to Bradford Cox (aka Atlas Sound) during that Kia Soul Collective weekend (pics here), and the hiatus Cox spoke of at ATP shouldn’t be too frustrating if you’re a Deerhunter fan. Yes, they are taking a break right now, but he said you could compare it to a “winter vacation”. [...]

Bradford Cox of Deerhunter played an hour long set yesterday evening to a small crowd of about 30-40, and I was lucky enough to be there! It was free (thanks to a sponsorship by the Kia Soul) so I’m surprised it wasn’t crowded… I found out about it through Atlanta’s Tight Bros. network, which apparently [...]