Hey, the Bonnaroo lineup got announced! And those of you who are excited about the prospect of seeing Coachella-headlining surfer Jack Johnson
and therapy-assisted cranks Metallica
and total dudes My Morning Jacket
and soul pioneer Solomon Burke
and a Wallflower-less Jakob Dylan during the same weekend—if any of you exist, I guess—will be completely psyched, because all of those acts are playing the Tennessee festival. And so are many others, including Lupe Fiasco and Janeane Garofalo! Man I hope I can be backstage for that meeting. Full lineup (via
The Tripwire) after the jump. Hype-averse types be warned—it does include both Black Kids and Vampire Weekend, who I hope are playing either back-to-back or simultaneously if only to spark a thousand "thoughtful" blog posts:
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It's been 10 days since Kanye West's dawn set at Bonnaroo, and surely I wasn't the only person wondering just when Kanye, who's no stranger to using the Internet to silence his critics, would respond to the angry online chatter. Oh boy, has that day come: He's put up a blog post defending himself, and during its writing Kanye was apparently "typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!" (Ah, Kanye, you always know how to get the product placement down.) Some heavily capitalized highlights, after the jump.
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Our 2008 Bonnaroo correspondent EJ Friedman sends along a note on Kanye West's set, which was hastily rescheduled to 2:45 a.m. Saturday/Sunday and didn't get going until the break of dawn: Nothing wrong with Kanye West's ego being the size of Jupiter, but his "glow-in-the-dark spectacular" was short on spectacle, long on wait, and not at all what was promised. Was it because Pearl Jam ran late? Was it because of a disagreement over the safety of some portion of his set? Was it because Kanye's over-inflated sense of self has crashed headlong into his limitations as a human being?
