I know reading things on the internet is always more fun if you’re high, but all of you stoners out there may want to pay close attention to this news story. Not only am I about to reveal the lineup to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival below, but if you read it carefully, you may see a subliminal message or two pop out at you:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish (2 Shows), Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Wilco, Al Green, Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello (Solo), Erykah Badu, Paul Oakenfold, Ben Harper and Relentless 7, The Mars Volta, TV on the Radio, TICKETS Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gov't Mule, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Merle Haggard, MGMT, moe., GO The Decemberists, Girl Talk, Bon Iver, Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Galactic, The Del McCoury Band, of Montreal, ON 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, SALE 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, FEBRUARY 7 AT 12PM EST. 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.
Catch that? Well, if you missed it, tickets go on sale Saturday, February 7 at 12 PM EST at Bonnaroo’s website. Taking place June 11-14, the festival is also being held on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. More bands and comedians are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Too poor to attend? I feel your pain, and so do fest organizers apparently, as they’re offering a new payment plan this year in which tickets will be available for five payments of $50 (plus fees). That’s $250 total for anyone out there who has stopped paying attention. Not too shabby for lip-syncing Springsteen’s only North American festival performance this year and Phish’s only festival appearance.