Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2011 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The 10th annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 9 – 12 on the same beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. A full list of confirmed acts follows, and more will be announced in the coming weeks. The final Bonnaroo 2011 lineup will total over 125 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days.Tickets for the event will go on sale this Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 12 noon eastern exclusively here.  Read more...

Royal Bangs are pleased to announce an extensive North American tour in support of their new album, Flux Outside, available March 29, 2011 via Glassnote Records. The band will also be making an appearance at SXSW.

Trading instruments and production duties, band members Chris Rusk, Ryan Schaefer and Sam Stratton recorded the album this August in an old house in their hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee with the help of Scott Minor (Sparklehorse) and his dog, Loretta. After a few weeks of tracking, manipulating, alternately weirding and un-weirding the material, they traveled to the rural western New York studio of Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Sleater Kinney, MGMT), who mixed the album with the band.  Read more...

Ben & Jerry’s and Bonnaroo have confirmed that Phish’s Mike Gordon will be playing a free “secret show” this Sunday, November 7th at 1:00 pm, in front of the Haight/Ashbury Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop, located at 1480 Haight Street. Open to the public, the show is part of the Bonnaroo Buzz series that are happening in select cities throughout the country. Sponsored by Ben & Jerry’s, they celebrate the company’s most recent rock & roll flavor, Bonnaroo Buzz, and more than a decade of Phish Food, named after the band Phish, the quartet of which Gordon was a founding member.  Read more...

By: Myles Crawley

It’s a Thursday night here in Southern California as a drive down the coast to the House of Blues in San Diego. I’m listening to the John Butler Trio’s new album April Uprising, which I’ve had for a couple of months now, but haven’t really gotten into yet. The songs are good. I sense a blending of styles, everything from blues to Celtic to bluegrass to a Hendrix influence that undeniably cuts through. John Butler is most definitely a guitar guy, but he can sing too. The band is tight. All in all it’s a good record, but maybe not one of my faves, yet anyway.  Read more...

Kings of Leon are excited to announce their summer 2010 touring plans. Beginning June 5th and ending September 23rd, the Bonnaroo 2010 headliners will be playing 32, mostly outdoor-amphitheatre shows across the United States.

The dates are:

June
5                        Atlantic City, NJ                        Borgata Event Center
6                        Saratoga, NY                                    Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8                        Scranton, PA                                    Toyota Pavillion at Montage Stage  Read more...

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Jack Johnson, Wilco, The Decemberists and many more provide tracks for free download

NEW YORK – Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Jack Johnson and other top artists are donating their music to encourage Americans to speak out on climate change. Organized by the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, HeadCount and the NRDC Action Fund, this collaboration marks the first time free music has been used to prompt Americans to contact their elected officials.  Read more...