Bonnaroo 2009 Lineup Announced

The folks who stage Bonnaroo every year have announced the 2009 festival lineup, and the diversity that has crept into the festival continues to expand while still retaining the festival's jamband roots.

Dirty hippies everywhere will rejoice when they read (they can read, can't they?) that the re-united Phish will play not one, but two shows during the festival. That's double the body odor for those you keeping score at home.

Seriously though, this diverse lineup has something for everyone - from Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys and Nine Inch Nails to Gov't Mule, Bon Iver and Wilco. Who wants to go to Tennessee?

Ticket info at www.bonnaroo.com

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 Shows - 1 late night)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello Solo
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov’t Mule
Andrew Bird
Band Of Horses
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury Band
of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross

Sweet Jesus No!

Phish Confirm Summer Tour

According to multiple sources on the net, jamband Phish will not only reform for a series of shows at the Hampton Collesium in Virginia March 6-8, but the band has announced a summer tour beginning in early June and lasting through the month.

As trustafarians around the country call their investment banker, aka Mommy and Daddy, to begin securing funds for travel plans and deposits on nitrous tanks, the rumor that Phish will headline the Bonnarroo festival June 11 - 14th and restore the festival to full crunchy jamband glory after Metallica, Tool and other non-jam bands annihilated festival goers eardrums in recent years will help complete jamband fan's inner-most dreams and unlock the 9th ring of hell, thus fulfilling prophesies by Nostradamus and Tom Cruise.

Build your hippy bunker now.

The Raconteurs - Live at Bonnaroo

The good people that bring us the Bonnaroo festival have released the entire 2008 set by The Raconteurs as a streaming video. Watch, absorb and bow down at the awesomeness of this blistering set.

Watch the whole thing here.

Bootleg Of The Month: Pearl Jam at Bonnaroo

One actual positive benefit of the internet and contemporary technology is the sharing of live music recordings. A music fan can determine if their favorite band actually doesn't suck live, collect an audio memento of a show they attended or just obsessively collect shows of their favorite bands.

We can't tell you how many times we've been turned on to new artists from listening to and trading live shows. Plus, it's awesome to listen to band's fuck up, hear a group of wasted people sing off key and clap out of time near the microphones recording the show, and remember what it was like to be at that show a few weeks ago.

This month, HF recommends Pearl Jam live a Bonnaroo.

With no new album to support and making their first appearance at the festival, PJ dug deep into their catalog, playing rarities like set opener "Hard to Imagine", "Who You Are" and the never-performed-live-before-this-tour "All Night". A cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" brings the set to a roaring finale.

Download the show here at Etree.org



Pearl Jam
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester,TN
6/14/08

Main Set

Hard To Imagine
Corduroy
All Night
Why Go
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Down
Who You Are
Severed Hand
1/2 Full
Animal
Even Flow
Daughter
Gone
Love Reign O'er Me
Do The Evolution
Rearviewmirror

Encore 1

W.M.A.
Better Man(Save it for Later)
Black
Life Wasted
Crazy Mary
Porch

Encore 2
No More
Release
Alive

Encore 3
All Along The Watchtower