Monday, February 2, 2009
Bonnaroo Springsteen, Phish, Beastie Boys, NIN, Byrne, Snoop, Wilco and More to Play Bonnaroo '09
Posted by Adam Gold on Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Confirmed Artists:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 Shows)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello Solo
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Band of Horses
Gov't Mule
Andrew Bird
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury Band
of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross
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I would gladly pay you 20 whole American dollars to see the fourth-to-last band in that lineup.
Does that properly quantify the kick-assity of Bonnaroo '09?
Has anyone ever seen Robyn Hitchcock live? Does he ever bust out old Soft Boys stuff?
My first pickings would be Springsteen, Beastie Boys, Al Green, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, of Montreal, Animal Collective, Jenny Lewis, Grizzly Bear and Yeasayer.
Nice mixture of genres.
does this mean we get to read gold's phish complaints for the next four months.
btw, i thought jackie-o-motherfucker was playing?
Animal Collective almost make me want to go.
But I'll stick to my guns: No MbV or Zep, no care.
pps. If Coachella can get MbV why the fuck can't Bonnaroo?
Coachella gets Bloody Valentine, Knoxville gets Fennesz and we get fucking Phish.?!
Retards.
Interested to hear how Booker T. sounds with DBTs rather than MGs. I'm feeling skeptical today.
Open question: Is Animal Collective a jam band?
Steve, good question. I would say, to keep it short, they are a rave band. A sibling genre due to its repitition.
I'm probably most excited about the decent lineup of African / World music they have scheduled.
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
King Sunny Adé
Vieux Farka Touré
David Byrne
Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabate
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About Animal Collective...
I certainly wouldn't classify AC as a jam band. They are all stoners and have said in number interviews that they are all Grateful Dead fans (or at least were Deadheads at one time). I think their music falls more into the Indie Rock category (I hate that term but you know what I mean) rather than jam band. I think AC is just trying to cast their net as wide as possible because their new album is trippy / experimental enough to be accessible to jam band fans. Say what you want about the jam scene (i.e. "it's lame", "the music sucks", "their fans smell like pachouli and ass", ect...) but it's a lucrative scene for any artists embraced by the jam fans. Any band that is able to hope on the summer jam festival circuit is bound to make a pretty penny. Just ask Les Claypool....
IMO, that's what AC is shooting for and can't blame them for trying to appeal the jam scene. But I wouldn't say that they are a jam band.
Oddly enough, there is a clause in the contracts with Bonnaroo that says the big bands can't play Nashville within a certain timeframe of the show. Glad we got Bruce last year...
i don't think they are trying to appeal to any scene or demographic. i think they're making the music they like.
i will not see them in bonnaroo but am psyched they are playing in oxford,ms, which is where they recorded merriweather post pavilion.
AC certainly has some jammy aesthetics, but because they don't technically "jam" or really do a lot of improvising, I'd say by definition they aren't a jam band.
I'll quote my old lady on this one: "Animal Collective = Beach Boys for ravers."
I don't know how much improvising they do on the records, but surely they are improvising quite a bit when they play live, no?
Sasha Frere-Jones, on an AC show in New York: "Animal Collective’s most faithful fans may have recognized some of the songs, but, though I had listened to the albums and the recent live recordings, I was stumped."
i saw them in chicago and do not think they improvise very much. i think that SFJ's bewilderment is linked to AC's tendency to play songs not yet released at their live shows. for instance, in july 08, they played "my girls" which was not released until january 09.
I'm pretty sure ravers aren't into AC, and i think you guys are using "rave" and "ravers" as all-purpose, albeit outdated buzzwords for electronic music or fans of.
"rave" style music is more in the vein of acid house or hardcore which sounds nothing like Animal Collective. i hear elements of downtempo, glitchcore, minimalism, and trip hop but nothing i'd wanna pop some X and swing glowsticks to.
That being said, i think using live, unsequenced electronics in the way they do prevents them from playing a lot of their songs precisely the same way each time, which is inherently a little jammy. Their songs often exceed the 5 minute mark which is another tip in the jam band's favor.
also, i have an unfinished, never-published Cream post somewhere called "The Music that Got Me Laid" where I advise that any time you find yourself behind closed doors with an art school girl, Animal Collective is the first thing you throw on shortly before mumbling something about it being "genius".
if you don't have any AC, "Here Come the Warm Jets" works pretty well too.
maybe "rave" was used to as a way to be inclusive about the conversation. the second you start bringing "glitchcore" into the equation, you've sunk the dialogue.
I think that's overselling things a bit, wh.
In any case, I suppose it's always a fine line between inclusivity and imprecision.
The line up is good, but I don't think it will ever live up to '07. I was hoping the Lips would be returning this year.
You're right about that, Steve.
However when I want to see where a conversation can go I usually leave a little space outside the lines I'm trying to cut.
matt. hitchock has written a whole lotta songs and released about 15 solo albums in the 30 years since "i wanna destroy you". i'd be really surprised if he's played any soft boys songs in many many years.
That's what I figured, but dammit, I wanna hear "I Wanna Destroy You."
I know this isn't at all the same thing, but I've always approached post-Soft Boys Hitchcock the same as Tom Verlaine solo stuff. I'll see a record and am sorta intrigued, but mostly nervous about it.
The first two Tom Verlaine solo albums are pretty good, although I don't find myself spinning them often. I am big fan of the Television "Adventure" album though. I to have yet to take the plunge into solo Robin Hitchcock. I remember seeing him on that show Reverb on HBO, probably about a decade ago, and I don't recall him playing any soft boys stuff. I could be wrong though. Speaking of which, that Reverb show was pretty good. I remember that was the same episode that had Sebadoh and The Flaming Lips.
As a punk, I feel underserved by this list. Sigh. Five hundred bands, & no Pissed Jeans.
matt, i spoke way too soon.
check this shit out:
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=3D391576D46F11DB8142000423CF381C
Shut up about Robyn Hitchcock already! Have you ever heard his song "Viva! Sea-Tac"? It's about the city that's halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, and it's really good.
Anyway, so if Animal Collective have a "jammy aesthetic," and do jammy things like jam, (improvise, to some extent, over highly repetitive structures for longer than most pop songs would allow), then they are, uh, well, uh, I don't know how to say this, but.... I think perhaps "jam band" just has a very specific meaning, so not all jammy bands with jammy aesthetics are jam bands, just as not all bluesy bands are blues bands and so on.
And again, wh, I think you're overreacting to casio's comment. Yes, he chided folks for using "rave" too broadly, but offered an opinion, and an open-ended one at that. And I think he made the word "glitchcore" up just for fun.
A cursory last.fm search reveals that glitchcore apparently exists. In spades.
Goofiest name for a subgenre ever.
maybe i'm just on edge b/c i haven't been laid to AC just yet.
which one is the deal-sealer: "leaf house" or "purple bottle?"
guess it depends on the girl. or not.
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