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...

Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have announced a new run of summer tour dates starting July 8 in Cincinnati, OH. The band also recently contributed a cover of “Angel From Montgomery” to the upcoming John Prine tribute album, alongside artists like My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Their version of “Angel From Montgomery” will be on the Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 (Oh Boy Records).  Read more...

Rounder Records is excited to announce the release of the new Delta Spirit Record on June 8, 2010. Entitled History From Below, the record was produced by My Morning Jacket’s keyboardist Bo Koster and Eli Thomson. History From Below is the follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut, 2008′s Ode to Sunshine, which Spin hailed in its four-out-of-five-star review, saying, “This rousing debut impresses mightily,” while Filter called it “pure joy” and Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal said, “I make no pretense of objectivity with Delta Spirit, I love these guys.”  Read more...

By: Ryan Mulligan

“God bless this land. God bless this whiskey. I can’t trust love. It’s far too risky.”  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...