Metallica, Pearl Jam, Kanye lead Bonnaroo line-up

The seventh annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival rolls out its most diverse lineup yet, with Metallica, Pearl Jam, Kanye West, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson and My Morning Jacket among the acts on the bill for the June 12-15 event in Manchester, Tenn. Zeppelin will also take the stage....LEZ ZEPPELIN!!

The final Bonnaroo 2008 lineup will total more than 100 bands and 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days. Tickets go on sale exclusively through Bonnaroo on February 16 at noon. This year, Bonnaroo is offering ticket-buyers the option to purchase a commemorative DVD of the 2008 festival that will be sent to them in December. These DVDs will feature exclusive performances and backstage footage from the 2008 festival. The DVD will include full-color packaging and artwork and a 5.1 audio mix created from Bonnaroo's soundboard recordings.

2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Confirmed Artists: Favorites in bold.
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Jack Johnson
Kanye West
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Phil Lesh & Friends
My Morning Jacket
The Allman Brothers
Raconteurs
Willie Nelson
Death Cab for Cutie
B.B. King
Sigur Ros
Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road
Ben Folds
O.A.R.
The Bluegrass Allstars Feat. Luke Bulla, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, BelaFleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton
M.I.A.
Umphrey's McGee
Iron & Wine
Yonder Mountain String Band
Swell Season
Talib Kweli
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's Soul Stew Revival
Broken Social Scene
Robert Randolph Gospel Show
Rilo Kiley
Gogel Bordello
Mastodon
Lupe Fiasco
Against Me!
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Pat Green
Ozomatli
Tegan & Sara
Solomon Burke
Drive-By Truckers
!!!
The Avett Brothers
Israel Vibrations
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela FleckPhil Lesh / Larry Campbell / Jackie Green
Aimee Mann
Ladytron
The Fiery Furnaces
Orchestra Baobab
Ghostland Observatory
Jose Gonzalez
Dark Star Orchestra
Minus the Bear
Donavon Frankenreiter
Lez Zeppelin
State Radio
Battles
Jakob Dylan
Two Gallants
The Sword
Vampire Weekend
Little Feat
Nicole Atkins
The Felice Brothers
Mason Jennings
MGMT
The Lee Boys
The Black Kids
Serena Ryder
Steel Train
Grupo Fantasma
Back Door Slam

Bonnaroo Comedy:
Bonnaroo Late Night Chat About with David Cross
Janeane Garofalo
Zach Galifianakis
Jim Norton
Brian Posehn
Mike Birbiglia
John Mulaney
Michelle Buteau

-Josh

Bon-A-Who?

NME.com will be announcing a surprise Bonnaroo headliner tonight at midnight. Bonnaroo takes place June 12 - 15 in Manchester, Tennessee.

Who could be a surprise headliner? Ben Harper. No. Jack Johnson. No. DMB. No.

So........maybe its Justin Timberlake. Could you imagine the calm and laid back hippie rebellion that would ensue. I'd be psyched to watch JT. I saw his HBO concert. That dude puts on a damn fine show.

Really, though, what would happen if it was someone like Timberlake. Would hippie's really boycott? I doubt it. Who cares anyway, you know there just going to announce its DMB anyway.

I Don't Wrestle, I Beat Bitches up!

Adam

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

My Morning Jacket has announced the title for their upcoming album - Evil Urges. This is the follow up to Z.

A friend of mine had given me It Still Moves, and I fell in love with it. In 2003, when I went to Bonnaroo, My Morning Jacket was playing a small side stage, and I was excited to see them play live. Their set was easily my favorite of all the bands I saw play. They are phenomenal live. I wasn't sure how their sound would transfer to a live show, but any doubts I had were easily put to rest. Although, as good as MMJ played, there was one other thing that caught my attention. The hippie chicks dancing around.

A whole group of them were hippie dancing ( you know, where it looks like there impersonating a tree in the wind) and I noticed they had hairy armpits. Not like Bonnaroo three day stubble but a crazy amount of armpit hair. I know some guys that couldn't even grow this much pit hair. Luckily, MMJ was so good they got me to lose focus, after awhile, on the hairy hippie chicks.

-Adam

P.S. What is the point of growing armpit hair if your a chick? Lets assume they weren't European, there American. Is it just so no one thinks you are a fake hippie? Is this like when gang members tattoo a tear under their eye when they kill someone? Like once you smoke a certain amount of pot and go to a certain number of rallies you grow armpit hair? "Oh, this is my 1,000 doobie! I gotta grow armpit hair now."

Attention Hippies!

Bonnaroo has recently put up a new website.

If you have never been to Bonnaroo, go! It is an amazing experience. I went a coupe of years ago and it was amazing. Lets just say if you go to bonnaroo you might see a 50-60 year old man dressed in a sponge bob T-shirt trying to score weed brownies.

-Adam