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Conan O’Brien announced a huge tour yesterday that will bring his lineup from The Tonight Show on the road to just about every major metro in the U.S., including a “headlining” MC slot at Bonnaroo 2010. The tour itself is aptly titled The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour. Check out the info over at teamcoco.com.
This is exactly what I like to see from Conan. Not only did he close out his show with a raucous musical tribute, but now he’s closing out his entire TV history with a trek across the states. I’m pretty sure that he’s laughing internally with the approach. This is clearly his way of throwing up a middle finger to the corporate bureaucracy by perfectly fulfilling on his contract while finding another fruitful avenue for his entertainment. Team Coco FTW.
4/12/10 Eugene, OR Hult Center for the Performing Arts
4/13/10 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
4/14/10 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
4/16/10 Spokane, WA INB Performing Arts Center
4/17/10 Enoch, AB, Canada River Cree Resort & Casino
4/18/10 Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
4/19/10 Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
4/22/10 San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center
4/23/10 San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center
4/24/10 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheater
04/25/10 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Ampitheater
4/29/10 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
4/30/10 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
5/1/10 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl Concert Theatre @ The Palms
5/4/10 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
5/5/10 San Jose, Ca San Jose State University Events Center
5/6/10 Sacramento, CA Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
5/9/10 Boulder, CO Mackey Auditorium
5/10/10 Denver, CO Ellie Caulkins Opera House
5/13/10 Dallas, TX McFarlin Memorial Auditorium- SMU Campus
5/14/10 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
5/15/10 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater
5/16/10 Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre
5/18/10 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
5/19/10 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
5/20/10 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
5/22/10 Toronto, ON, Massey Hall
5/30/10 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Spa & Resort – Event Center
6/1/10 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
6/2/10 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
6/4/10 Boston, MA Wang Theater
6/5/10 Boston, MA Wang Theater
6/6/10 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
6/7/10 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
6/8/10 Washington, DC Constitution Hall
6/11/10 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival
6/14/10 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
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Bonnaroo just announced a number of additions to its 2010 lineup, including: Ween, Galactic, Umphrey’s McGee, John Butler Trio, and The Gossip.
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Festival’s piecemeal lineup announcement slowly drives our writer crazy, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Bonnaroo 2010
Photo: Bonnaroo
I am living my life in six-minute intervals. I am listening to a ticking cuckoo clock and watching animated punks attempt to smash androids with mallets. I am listening to snippets of polka music. Over and over again. And there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight.
At the time of this writing, I have spent exactly 343 minutes on Bonnaroo’s MySpace page, which, by the time you read this, will hopefully have returned to normal. Or at least have gotten rid of the anthropomorphic light bulb (hot-air balloon?) that has been hovering around the site all afternoon and will certainly haunt my dreams tonight, its spindly arms outstretched, as if posing the eternal, unanswerable question: Why?
Why indeed? On Tuesday, for reasons as twisted as they are inexplicable, the folks behind Bonnaroo decided to spice up the usually staid process of unveiling the fest’s 2010 lineup (which, in years past, involved little more than a press release and an embargo) by turning the event into something far more sinister: a nine-hour endurance test, a harrowing psychological experiment more at home in the Swan hatch or a “Saw” flick.
Or, in decidedly less-threatening terms, they revealed the name of every single artist on the Bonnaroo bill — some 60 acts as I write this, but, according to a source at the fest, a list that will swell to around 90 — over the course of nine grueling hours. If you do the math, that means one new name every six minutes. Oh, and they decided to do this on MySpace, which officially made today the single longest period I’ve spent on the site since 2003, when I routinely used it to stalk my ex-girlfriend (wait, delete!).
It was diabolical. Brutal. Because my job mandated it, I was forced to keep ‘Roo’s MySpace page open all day long, watching the animated cloud slowly bob up and down and that cursed light bulb/ balloon mocking me. The ghostly cuckoo clock would count down the seconds to the next big reveal, and every six minutes, I’d hear those chimes, click over to the site to see some animated character unveiling the latest name. Sometimes, the wait was worth it — the Kings of Leon! Jay-Z! Jimmy-freaking-Cliff! Most of the time, it wasn’t — hey … it’s … Baaba Maal. Still, I kept watching. I grew this beard. The list got longer. My eyeballs began to bleed. I wanted to die.
And here’s the thing. I love Bonnaroo. I really do. I think it’s probably the best festival in the U.S., a genuinely great event that routinely books the best bands on the planet. And the folks behind the fest — Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment — have always been really great to me. One time they even let me fly in a helicopter there. But dudes, you’re killing me here.
I fully understand why you chose to reveal the Bonnaroo lineup this way, and I will begrudgingly admit that no matter how evil a strategy it may be, it’s also a pretty brilliant one. Not only did you get the jump on any lineup leaks (an annual tradition right up there with the press release and media embargo), but you created genuine buzz while doing it (as I write this, six of the top 10 Google Trends are Bonnaroo acts). If I could still see, I’d look in your general direction and give you a heartfelt nod, a well-earned “good job” from a weary newsman.
That said, I am slightly terrified that, thanks to the success of the Bonnaroo unveil, competing festivals will soon adopt similar gimmicks. I fear that the days of the press release are gone forever and that I will be spending the next several years of my life on MySpace, eternally watching some cuckoo clock tick down to zero, revealing the name of some Afrobeat band I’ve never heard of. And with each sweep of the dial, a little piece of my life will disappear, too, until all of a sudden it’s 2040, and I’m hunched over at my holodeck watching a 3-D light bulb mock me. And then the name of Jay-Z’s grandchild will appear, and everything will be worth it. Or maybe not.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, the cuckoo is singing again, the polka band is tuning up, and an animated speakerbox is wrestling with a bear and shouting the name of the Disco Biscuits. Tell me this is all worth it. Tell me the end is nigh. Tell me I have led a good life.
Questions? Concerns? Hit me up at BTTS@MTVStaff.com.
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As we recently reported, the Bonnaroo Music Festival will be rolling out their official 2010 lineup announcement today starting at noon EST, in continuation of their annual lineup tease-fest. However, a number of bands seemingyl wanted to boost traffic to their own websites couldn’t wait to break the news to the world that they’ll be on this year’s lineup, so we’ve already got a number of artists confirmed.
Stay tuned to LMB, as we’ll be updating the lineup as all of the artists are confirmed throughout the day…
311
Avett Brothers(confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
Bassnectar
Baroness
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Blues Traveler
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Dave Matthews Band
Darryl Hall w/ Chromeo
Flaming Lips w/ Stardeath & White Dwarves performing Dark Side of the Moon(confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
Isis
Ingrid Michaelson (confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
Jeff Beck
John Fogerty(confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
Medeski Martin & Wood (confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
Monte Montgomery
Neon Indian
OK Go
Phoenix
The Punch Brothers
The Asterisk
The Black Keys
The Constellations
Weezer(confirmed via Bonnaroo MySpace)
(via http://www.myspace.com/bonnaroo”>Bonnaroo MySpace, COSlive, Knoxville News and various bands’ Twitter pages)
Tickets go on sale today at noon EST.
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From naming stages and tents Which, What, This, That, and Other so that asking for directions can’t help but become a stoned Abbot & Costello routine, to unveiling its lineup via a protracted runup of internet-published “clues,” to just generally seeing what happens when hipsters and hippies are forced to be unshowered together on a farm for three days, Bonnaroo’s always run their festival with an eye toward having fun with the form and taking the piss — while also being the most high profile of the “totally immersive” fests (case in point: seeing Kanye at 5AM, which would happen nowhere else on earth). This year, though, the fest is going even further with having fun with the form or the protracted-lineup-reveal situation and the etc.: Bonnaroo’s announcing their lineup over a twelve hour period today, on MySpace, from 12PM to 12AM. Neat! I mean, if you like your lineups piecemeal, this is great news. You might even want to buy tickets the second they go on sale, at noon today. If you like knowing who is playing all at once, come back tonight. Either way we’ll be updating this post with the lineup as it’s announced.
We’ve heard various Bonnarumors, but here’s a dynamically updated list of BonnaCONFIRMATIONS (perfect):
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Festival roster includes more than 90 acts spanning many genres.
By James Montgomery
Jay-Z
Photo: Dave M. Benett/ Getty Images
Well, it took all day, but finally, on Tuesday night (February 9), organizers revealed the full lineup for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, scheduled for June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Weezer and Flaming Lips top the bill for this year’s ‘Roo, a list of more than 90 acts spanning genres and eras.
There are genuine legends (Jimmy Cliff, John Fogerty), established rock acts (the Dead Weather), hip-hop talent (Wale, Nas, Kid Cudi), electro heavyweights (LCD Soundsystem, Thievery Corporation) and bands that hearken back to the festival’s earlier, decidedly jammy routes (Medeski, Martin and Wood, the Disco Biscuits), not to mention the annual WTFs (Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Darryl Hall with Chromeo). All in all, it’s a rather jam-packed four days of music.
Rather than announce the full lineup, organizers broke from tradition and revealed each performer individually on the Bonnaroo MySpace page, a decision that was as time-consuming as it was brilliant.
According to a spokesperson for the festival, the full lineup will swell to some 125 acts and over 20 comedians, performing on 13 different stages. Tickets for the 2010 edition of Bonnaroo are already on sale at the fest’s Web site, with a four-day pass costing $234.50. There are also RV passes available, and a super-deluxe “Total Access” package, which offers 24-concierge service, onstage viewing for all performances and complimentary food. As in previous years, organizers are also giving attendees the option to purchase tickets on an installment plan.
The full list of confirmed artists for the 2010 Bonnaroo festival:
» 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 & 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 and 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
» Gaslight Anthem
» Miike Snow
» Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
» Dr. Dog
» They Might Be Giants
» Punch Brothers
» Isis
» Blitzen Trapper
» Blues Traveler
» Miranda Lambert
» Calexico
» 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
» Carolina Chocolate Drops
» 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
» Needtobreathe
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‘I really want hair to be standing up on your arms for the whole record,’ frontman Andy Hull says of next effort.
By James Montgomery
Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull
Photo: MTV News
Manchester Orchestra main man Andy Hull is a pretty hirsute dude. So when he starts talking about recording a new album and he mentions that his main goal is to make the listener’s hair stand straight up, well, then you know he means business.
“We’re gonna record a new record in June. It’s going to be different, really beautiful and very wide — not wide stylistically, more like it’s gonna be a broad and big,” Hull told MTV News. “I really want hair to be standing up on your arms for the whole record — that’s kind of my goal.”
And while the Orchestra are still riding high on the success of last year’s Mean Everything to Nothing — which bowed at #37 on the Billboard albums chart, earned them tons of critical acclaim and even generated a modest radio hit (”I’ve Got Friends”) — they’re already working on the follow-up. That’s just the way they tend to operate.
“We’ve never been afraid of hard work,” Hull smiled.
But a new album isn’t the only thing they’ve got lined up for June. They’ve just been confirmed to appear at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, taking place that same month in Manchester, Tennessee. Joining them are some of the biggest names in the game (Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band, Weezer), but they’re not nervous. After all, they’ve learned from some of the best — and weirdest — bands out there.
“You tour with, like, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Kings of Leon for three months, you just have to turn up and become a rock band. And we were very influenced by that and a bunch of bands that we were able to tour with,” Hull said. “We were able to tour with weirder bands, like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! and play with Okkervil River, where Clap Your Hands are, like, this kind of weird music and the Okkervil is beautiful folk music, so we got to tour with a bunch of awesome bands and kind of get to know all these people, and we’re definitely influenced by it.”
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The dates for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival were just announced.
The fest is back again at Chicago’s Union Park and is set for July 16th-18th. The first round of artists will be announced on Friday when tickets go on sale.
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The guys over at Baeble Music have gradually been stepping up their game in the music video realm, including concert video. The media site seems to be carving out a decent niche by generally focusing on the indie/art rock style of bands. This live video from Passion Pit’s Central Park show in September is a solid example:
Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com
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