Bonnaroo

I know I just made mention of Conan O'Brien's tour including a stop at Bonnaroo, but I figured I might as well fill you in on the rest as well.  Along with a regular performance O'Brien will also be the MC for the What Stage on Friday and Saturday.  Joining Team Coco in the comedy tent this year will be the incredibly awesome Aziz Ansari, Doug Benson, as well as Jeffrey Ross roasting Bonnaroo.  While I wasn't officially given the spot I requested for this year, I may or may not be telling jokes by the fountain everyday.  I'll be the one wearing the Jay Leno outfit.  Bam!

The full comedy lineup is below. Tickets for the festival are still available at the Bonnaroo website.

Conan O’Brien
Margaret Cho
Aziz Ansari
Jeffrey Ross Roasts Bonnaroo
Greg Giraldo
Bo Burnham
Doug Benson
Nick Kroll
Paul Scheer
Rob Huebel
John Roberts
Baron Vaughn
Chelsea Peretti

As with any announcement there were a lot of people complaining about this year's initial Bonnaroo lineup.  Many felt the festival was betraying its jam roots.  Well the first round of artist additions should silence the critics a bit.  And .....................  Ween! It's gonna get brown.

There will be more additions as we get closer to the festival and we'll keep you updated.  Tickets and other details are still available at Bonnaroo.com

• Ween
• Galactic
• Umphrey's McGee
• John Butler Trio
• The Gossip
• Circa Survive

Yesterday Bonnaroo had a day long event where they announced this year's initial lineup act by act in six minute intervals.  To say it was a painfully slow day would be quite accurate; however, thanks to the awesome work by Alex Young and the rest of the team over at Consequence of Sound we had a pretty good idea of the lineup before Bonnaroo even started playing its own game.  

Not too many surprises and in this humble narrator's opinion a somewhat lackluster lineup comparatively speaking, but additions forthcoming.  The acts I am most excited about would be Mr Stevie Wonder, The Dead Weather, Phoenix, The National, The Black Keys, Dr Dog, Lotus, Jeff Beck, and last but not least the unbelievably great collaboration of Darryl Hall and Chromeo.  Without further ado your initial 2010 Bonnaroo lineup.

• 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 and Nas
• Phoenix
• Norah Jones
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• John Fogerty
• Regina Spektor
• Jimmy Cliff
• LCD Soundsystem
• The Avett Brothers
• Thievery Corporation
• Rise Against
• Tori Amos
• The National
• Zac Brown Band
• Les Claypool
• John Prine
• The Black Keys
• Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers
• Jeff Beck
• Dropkick Murphys
• She & Him
• Against Me!
• The Disco Biscuits
• Daryl Hall & Chromeo
• Jamey Johnson
• Clutch
• Bassnectar
• Kid Cudi
• Baaba Maal
• Kris Kristofferson
• Medeski Martin & Wood
• The xx
• GWAR
• Dan Deacon Ensemble
• Tinariwen
• Wale
• Deadmau5
• The Melvins
• The Gaslight Anthem
• Miike Snow
• The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Dr. Dog
• They Might Be Giants
• Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
• Isis
• Blitzen Trapper
• Blues Traveler
• Miranda Lambert
• Calexico
• Gary Chardonnay
• OK Go
• Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
• Martin Sexton
• Lotus
• Baroness
• Dave Rawlings Machine
• Mayer Hawthorne and the County
• Japandroids
• Jay Electronica
• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
• Ingrid Michaelson
• The Dodos
• Manchester Orchestra
• The Temper Trap
• Cross Canadian Ragweed
• Big Sam's Funky Nation
• Carolina Chocolate Drops
• NEEDTOBREATHE
• Tokyo Police Club
• The Entrance Band
• Local Natives
• Brandi Carlile
• Mumford & Sons
• Rebelution
• Diane Birch
• Monte Montgomery
• Julia Nunes
• The Postelles
• Lucero
• Here We Go Magic
• Hot Rize
• Neon Indian
• B.O.B

The official announcement for this year's Bonnaroo was done by this fancy little video/song that seems to be the standard now.   The festival will be held June 10-13 and Bonnaroo will be offering a payment plan like they did last year.  Tickets go on sale Nov 27 and you can look for a newly updated Bonnaroo.com before then.

In other festival video announcement news you can look for a live stream of the initial announcement for next year's Gathering Of The Vibes over at their official site.  This will be followed by a full live stream of tonight's Dark Star Orchestra show courtesy of iClips.  You can check out that broadcast on Facebook.

Bonnaroo seems to be pushing the festival idea up a few notches this year. Being the only festival with a truly established "online community", Bonnaroo has now announced Bonnaroo 365. The idea behind Bonnaroo 365 is pretty simple: Stream all this amazing footage and audio we have from past Bonnaroos 365 days a year instead of only during the festival. Wow, a good idea, that's rare. To start things off they have this year's set by the Raconteurs, who this site has made mention of several times as absolutely can't miss performers. Here's your chance all you lazy awesomers

The first installment of the program begins on January 11th, 2009 with The Raconteurs, whose Friday afternoon set was a highlight of the 2008 event. Hot on the heels of their grammy nominated album 'Consolers of the Lonely' (best rock album and best engineered) The Raconteurs delivered a classic Bonnaroo performance. Four of the songs from the set will be available for the first time as free audio downloads – one will be available to everyone, while the other three can be downloaded by Bonnaroo Community members only (membership sign-up is free!) The songs to be available for download are "Consoler of the Lonely," "Old Enough," "Blue Veins" and "Top Yourself." If that's not enough, the full set will be available in streaming video at Bonnaroo.com, and radio stations across the country will broadcast the entire set on Sunday, January 11th.

Obviously this would be a good way to spend your work day. I've heard the entire set, it is stellar. You can find more details at the link below. This video of the band performing Blue Veins is worth watching as Jack White loses his mind half way through.

This is just a rumor but it warrants mentioning basically because I trust Rolling Stone more than most other sites and the fact that this rumor has been appearing somewhere new everyday for the last 4 months

Bonnaroo, the East Coast’s premiere multi-day, multi-stage gathering of the vibes (held in Manchester, Tennessee from June 11th to 14th) usually doesn’t release its lineup until early February — but RollingStone.com hears from reliable sources close to Phish that the band will top the bill for two nights, restoring the fest to its jam-friendly roots.

The other rumor out there is that Bruce Springsteen will headline the final night of the festival. If we are really talking about a Bonnaroo headlined by two nights of Phish and one of the Boss, I will be a very very happy person.

Theres room in the RV, get on board.