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The news of a new solo album from Aimee Mann has us very excited here at Loudersoft. The album promises to be more stripped down and back-to-basics laden, a “return to form” after the concept albums The Forgotten Arm and her Christmas CD One More Drifter In The Snow. Among her appearances this year, she’ll be playing Bonnaroo, and we definitely look forward to catching her live.
Aimee Mann On Tour
June 2 Los Angeles, CA Largo
June 6 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
June 10 Los Angeles, CA Largo
June 12 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Zoo
June 13 Milwaukee WI Pabst Theater
June 15 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival
July 9 Boulder, CO Chautauqua Auditorium
July 11 Denver, CO Denver Botanical Gardens
July 12 Park City, UT Deer Valley Resort
July 14 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery
July 15 Rosebud, OR Stewart Park
July 16 Seattle, WA Seattle Zoo
July 24 Calgary, Alberta Calgary Music Festival
UPDATED 1:05AM EST: As predicted by a number of people, the word is out now that Lez Zeppelin, the all lesbian Led Zeppelin cover band, will appear at Bonnaroo; however, Led Zeppelin will not be appearing. NME has been nominated for the “Douchebags of the Century” award in “Journalism” for building up this announcement and creating chaos for everyone who writes about music. However, the lineup still looks pretty exciting. More details as they become available.
Tickets will go on sale at www.bonnaroo.com on February 16 at 12:00 pm EST.
The line-up to date includes:Pearl Jam
Metallica
Jack Johnson
Kanye West
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Phil Lesh & Friends
My Morning Jacket
The Allman Brothers Band
The 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, Bela Fleck, 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
Gogol Bordello
Broken Social Scene
Robert Randolph’s Revival
Rilo Kiley
Mastodon
Lupe Fiasco
Against Me!
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Pat Green
Ozomatli
Tegan & Sara
Solomon Burke
Drive-By Truckers
!!!
The Avett Brothers
Israel Vibration
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck
Phil Lesh / Larry Campbell / Jackie Greene
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
Black Kids
Serena Ryder
Steel Train
Grupo Fantasma
Back Door Slam
Comedians:
David Cross
Janeane Garofalo
Zach Galifianakis
Jim Norton
Brian Posehn
Mike Birbiglia
John Mulaney
Michelle Buteau
And just when the guessing game had reached it’s pinnacle, British music magazine NME has made declaration that they will announce the “surprise headliner” for Bonnaroo tonight at Midnight EST. This adds weight to the potential of a number of great British acts headlining the festival this year. Rumored candidates Led Zeppelin and Oasis appear to be the front runners, and even a rumor that a reunited version of The Kinks could be there have all come into question recently.
From the NME Blog:
NME.COM will reveal a surprise headliner for the 2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival at midnight EST.
The festival will take place June 12-15 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Stay tuned to NME.COM for all the details on Bonnaroo’s special headliner and the complete line-up to date for this year’s festival.
We’re staying tuned, you do the same. (NME Blog)
If you follow this blog at all, you know how much fun we had at Bonnaroo 2007 over in lovely Manchester, Tennessee. Well, it’s just about time for the official lineup for Bonnaroo 2008 to be announced, and the natives are restless everywhere. BONNAROOOOOOOOOO!
It appears that for the last several days on Radio Bonnaroo, the DJ’s have been sporadically spitting out some clues as to who the various participants might be. On websites like Idolator and Stereogum, and of course over at the Official Bonnaroo Forums, people are all hedging their bets and crossing their fingers as to whom these clues represent. We love a mystery here at Loudersoft, so we will follow the excitement by jumping on to the list of “websites who started covering Bonnaroo in February” by throwing the clues at you and letting you have a stab at it.
In the meantime, attempts to connect to the official Bonnaroo website have been met with a repeated Service Unavailable message. Something is definitely going on over there, and we’re all pretty sure they’re preparing for the big announcement. I am told that the official Bonnaroo lineup will be announced on Wednesday, February 6th at around 12PM. So, be sure to check back then. In the meantime, what do these clues mean to you?
1. “There is more than one Manchester”
2. “Memphis isn’t Albany”
3. “Clouds taste this way”
4. “Some Herrings are red, Jimmy”
5. “Hard Substance, Soft Substance”
6. “Janis Joplin’s reserves will be preserved”
7. “Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac”
8. “It’s not sour, what is sowed in the earth”
9. “Three certain birds, add one”
10. “Look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around.”
11. “Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.”
EDIT: 12. Charlie’s imaginary band will not be playing and don’t believe what he wrote on his hand and the last few things he was not saying. (thanks to a Stereogum reader)
