AC Superfly have announced the partial line-up for Bonnaroo 2010, and as a blizzard approaches NYC, I’m going through my camping gear. I’ll be posting amazing new Bonnaroo highlights over the next coming weeks, and here are some classic moments at the Roo from Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, Led Zep’s John Paul Jones + Ben Harper + ?uestlove, The Mars Volta, David Byrne, !!!, The Disco Biscuits and Lily Allen.
The line-up so far, is below the videos…
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My Band of The Decade at my Festival of The Decade: The Mars Volta a Bonnaroo. I wish they were returning in 2010.
David Byrne, Bonnaroo’s first ever guest-curator, in 2009
!!! deliver one of my all-time favorite sets anywhere, ever at Bonnaroo
Phoenix’s set from Bonnaroo ‘09 — if you missed it? They will be returning for 2010.
As the band build momentum with “Love Like A Sunset, Part 1″ which they perform herein with a rolling Feelies-ish tone that makes for a nice variation on the album version, the lead singer, who looks kinda like Monty Python’s Eric, lays Idle, throbbing under the red light, glowing like an ember in the Tennessee night — the stage is actually thumping wildly because of the hard stomping of musicians keeping time amidst the chaos that is life onstage.
Ultimately he rises like a, uh, Phoenix and “Love Like A Sunset, Part 2″ feels more like a midnight sunrise, marking the dawn of a beautiful new day right in the middle of the night…When they hit their stride on “1901″, all those chiming guitars needed were some sleigh bells and it woulda been Christmas under that Tennessee moon, albeit with a rail-thin Santa Claus, wading into the crowd with a reprise of the “falling, falling” chorus, capping off a brilliant set which proved once again that anything is possible on this stage — make it That Stage, where I’ve filmed some of my very favorite shows at Bonnaroo over the years…there are just some places where magic happens and That Stage at Bonnaroo is a place I’m sure I’ll leave a few ghosts.
Talking to folks in the crowd, I was surprised at how many persons who love the new Phoenix album hadn’t heard the first, which remains for this fan a stone cold classic — their repeat to form on this third LP has made for one of the nicer musical moments of 2009…I gotta give it up to them for staying on the case.
A stone-cold classic Flaming Lips set at Bonnaroo. They played the very first ‘Roo and will be playing Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon in 2010
Here’s The Disco Biscuits playing their home turf, Camp Bisco. They’ll be at Bonnaroo 2010, and it’s a welcomed return
One of the greatest jams I’ve ever been to in my life: Led Zep’s John Paul Jones, Ben Harper and ?uestlove went through a songbook that left everyone with goofy smiles on their faces.
Lily Allen, bottle in hand and butt lit, hates on the impossible gloss of fashion mags and bonds with the ladies in the audience. She also gets teary-eyed at the end of this.
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 & 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 & 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
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
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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