Sunday, April 5, 2009

Bonnaroo Daily Lineup Coming Together

Many of the fine folks over at Inforoo are keeping busy, keeping tabs on band tour schedules, trying to figure out what day bands will be playing at Bonnaroo this year. Sure, schedules change, nothing's set in stone, but here's how the day-by-day lineup is shaping up:

Thursday
Zac Brown Band, Passion Pit, Brett Dennen, People Under the Stairs, Murs, Chairlift, Portugal. the Man, Midnite, White Rabbits, The Lovell Sisters, Janelle Monae, Hockey

Friday
Phish (latenight show), Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Al Green, Erykah Badu, Paul Oakenfold (latenight show), TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ani DiFranco, Girl Talk (latenight show), Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabate, Galactic, Lucinda Williams, Animal Collective (possible latenight show), Amadou & Mariam, Santigold, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force (latenight show), Grizzly Bear, King Sunny Ade & the African Beats, St. Vincent, Crystal Castles (possible latenight show), Tift Merritt, Toubab Krewe, The Wailing Souls, The Itals, Vieux Farka Toure, Pretty Lights (possible latenight show)

Saturday
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Nine Inch Nails (possible latenight show), Wilco, Elvis Costello, Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 (possible latenight show), The Mars Volta (possible latenight show), MGMT (possible latenight show), moe. (latenight show), Gov't Mule, Rodgrigo y Gabriela, Del McCoury Band, of Montreal, Allen Toussaint, Booker T & the Drive-By Truckers, David Grisman Quintet, Jenny Lewis, Robert Earl Keen, Heartless Bastards, Tony Rice Unit, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Okkervil River, Alejandro Escovedo, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Cherryholmes, Yeasayer (possible latenight show), The SteelDrivers

Sunday
Phish, Snoop Dogg, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Merle Haggard, Coheed & Cambria, Neko Case, Citizen Cope, High on Fire, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue, Todd Snider, A.A. Bondy

What We Know
We already know that Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are Saturday's headliner. Phish will be closing the festival out on Sunday night, but their first show is rumored to be a latenight show on the festival's main stage (What Stage), apparently going from 1am to 5am.

The Beastie Boys are rumored to be Friday's headliner, but it appears they'll be playing right before that Phish all nighter. All we've heard about the Nine Inch Nails set, is that they're getting a "special slot."

Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 have 11:45 pm listed on their MySpace, which leads us to believe they'll be a latenight set, probably on the Which Stage, considering the draw that Ben had back in 2007.

As for Friday, there is quite an abundance of electronica and dance music (most of that stuff goes on late at night, as well as reggae and world music.

It appears that Saturday will host a lot indie, country, folk and rock, while Sunday's shaping up to be the day for indie (as usual on the Which Stage), as well as probably a country and folk music tent. For those of you into hard rock and metal (a music genre somewhat new to Bonnaroo), Sunday will be your day.

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