'Tis the season for music festival line-up announcements. While major festivals such as Coachella and SXSW grabbed most of the blog headlines recently, a newer festival jumped the gate this year with one of the most impressive line-ups of the season. Bonnaroo, first held in 2002 on a 700-acre Manchester, Tennessee farm, snagged the reunited Police to headline their four day music marathon.
Although most considered Bonnaroo a jam-band festival, the 2007 roster features some of the hottest names in rock: The White Stripes, Damien Rice, Tool, The Decemberists, Kings of Leon, Regina Spektor, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Lily Allen, The Flaming Lips, and the Cold War Kids. Jam-bands still represent with heavyweights like Widespread Panic, Bob Weir & Ratdog, and The String Cheese Incident.
Don't count this festival out--it might be a new-ish thing in the middle of nowhere, but Rolling Stone magazine counted it's 2004 festival as one of the fifty moments "to change the history of rock and roll." This year promises to be no different; over one-hundred musical acts acts and twenty comedians (including David Cross and Lewis Black) performing on 13 stages beginning June 14. Tickets go on sale February 23 rd at noon from www.bonnaroo.com. I suggest scooping up your tickets ASAP.
The full festival lineup, and this weeks free MP3, is after the jump.
The Police, Tool, Widespread Panic, The White Stripes, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System, The String Cheese Incident, Franz Ferdinand, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Damien Rice, Ween, Gov't Mule, Ziggy Marley, The Decemberists, Kings of Leon, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Wolfmother, Regina Spektor, The Black Keys, Galactic, DJ Shadow, Gillian Welch, Spoon, Keller Williams, Sasha & John Digweed, STS9, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Hold Steady, North Mississippi Allstars, Fountains Of Wayne, Hot Tuna, Feist, Hot Chip, Lily Allen, John Butler Trio, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Aesop Rock, The Richard Thompson Band, Dierks Bentley, Xavier Rudd, Gogol Bordello, Junior Brown, Tortoise, T-Bone Burnett, Mavis Staples, Clutch, Cold War Kids, Dr. Dog, Paolo Nutini, Brazilian Girls, RX Bandits, The Nightwatchman, The Slip, Girl Talk , Railroad Earth, Martha Wainwright, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Annuals, Tea Leaf Green, Sam Roberts Band, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Charlie Louvin, Sonya Kitchell, Mute Math, Apollo Sunshine, Uncle Earl, James Blood Ulmer, The National, The Little Ones, The Black Angels, and Ryan Shaw.
MP3: Hot Chip - "Over and Over"
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