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Good on the Superfly Presents boys for getting their green on!

New ‘BREED’? Get it? Cause it’s with animals and stuff.

Brooklyn’s amusement park of food, drink, & music grows ever nearer.

Probably the best US based festival lineup released yet.

Enjoy these links.

Holy shit is the lineup radical.

The Beach Boys will also make an appearance.

Maybe they should be.

It’s like being there, but without the mud or sunburn.

Bonnaroo is disgusting. It just might be about to get more so. But they do have Arcade Fire.

When I meet up with Tom Gabel, we’re sitting in the catering tent surrounded by band trailers at the Williamsburg Waterfront. The Silversun Pickups are sound checking on the enormous stage behind us, which faces outward towards the City and an almost pretty East River.

Taking a page from their impressive live concert streams and in-studio performances, NPR, the place where everything from things to songs are considered, announced that they will be streaming performances from this year’s Bonnaroo. Starting this weekend, NPR.org will feature over 25 shows from the prominent festival. In addition to the live streams, select concerts [...]

In an effort to speed the recovery of Nashville’s flooded streets, the organizers of Bonnaroo will match donations dollar for dollar (up to $50,000) for those who donate to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. The three-day festival that showcases indie rock, bluegrass and jam bands will go on as scheduled from June 10th-13th, as [...]

We all know Bonnaroo as the weekend long drug romp music festival, held in some backwoods farm in Tennessee. But Bonnaroo is making the news in ways completely unrelated to music…well kind of. It seems that two men, are suing the fstival for reasons that are only important to themselves. Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Jonathan [...]

The man who is Raaaaaaaandy is returning to the stage, and I couldn’t be more excited.  He announced the “Dangerously Delicious” tour on his Twitter five hours ago, and the pre-sales for ALL the shows have already sold out.  I guess he really has blown up!  You can buy tickets the day of the regular [...]

Bonnaroo in its infancy was a safe haven for Phishheads and general burnouts alike — a weekend down in Tennessee where all those kids in high school who just ‘weren’t born into the right decade, man’ could congregate and listen to jambands. Ew. Then Bonnaroo got smart and realized that being grassroots is great, but [...]

In a press release today transmitted by Oderus Urungus, I was informed that GWAR will be closing out the main stage on Saturday night (June 12th) at this year’s Bonnaroo. The show comes as part of a two-year-long (yep) celebration of the band’s 25th Anniversary, the theme of which has officially been declared “Lust in [...]

For all you fans of Todd Rundgren out there, of which there should be many, you’ll be happy to know that Neon Indian backbone Alan Palomo is of your number — so much so that one of his songs samples directly from Rundgren’s own library without offering any credit. The track “Deadbeat Summer,” off Pitchfork [...]

Daryl Hall and Chromeo are all set to recapitulate their 2008 union from an episode of Hall’s popular web series, “Live From Daryl’s House.” The unlikely, yet fabulous union will take place on the June 11th date of Bonnaroo, where the pairing will collaborate on both Hall & Oates and Chromeo songs. I’m beginning to [...]

With Bonnaroo stealing all the festival headlines this week, it’s easy to overlook another hippie-turned-hipster (or Hova, apparently) summer gathering scheduled for this year. Yes, I am referring to the triumphant return of Lilith Fair. I’m just as tempted as the next person to dismiss the 1997 through 1999 traveling festival — better remembered as [...]