Tuesday, February 14th 2012

News:  Bonnaroo

Radiohead, Phish, RHCP To Headline Bonnaroo 2012: See The Lineup

By Johnny Firecloud

Bonnaroo has confirmed that Radiohead, Phish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the 11th annual Bonnaroo Music Festival, set to take place from June 7th to 10th in Manchester, Tennessee.

The aforementioned headliners will be joined by Bon Iver, Skrillex, a reunited Beach Boys, Mariachi El Bronx, Alice Cooper and The Shins, as well as comedian Aziz Ansari and more than 150 bands and nearly two dozen comedians. Spanning 13 stages over the course of four sweltering days and nights, the festival is most definitely an experience unlike any other on American soil.

Honestly, we liked the fake lineup more. Would you rather hear Kokomo and geriatric Good Vibrations, or Darling Nikki and Purple Rain? Yeah.

Electronic acts include Flying Lotus, Major Lazer and Big Gigantic. Hardcore group Bad Brains will make their inaugural Bonnaroo appearance as will Spectrum Road, an all-star band featuring Cream’s Jack Bruce, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, Carlos Santana’s wife Cindy Blackman, and revered organist John Medeski.

Tickets will go on sale this Saturday, February 18th at noon ET, at bonnaroo.com.

Here is the complete 2012 Bonnaroo lineup as announced at this time:

Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
Bon Iver
The Beach Boys
The Avett Brothers
The Shins
Foster the People
Skrillex
Aziz Ansari
Dispatch
Feist
The Roots
Alice Cooper
SuperJam
Black Star
The Word
Ludacris
Ben Folds Five
Flogging Molly
Spectrum Road
Mac Miller
Childish Gambino
Major Lazer
tUnE-yArDs
Afrocubism
Flying Lotus
Umphrey’s McGee
Little Dragon
St. Vincent
City and Colour
The Civil Wars
Young the Giant
Two Door Cinema Club
Punch Brothers
NEEDTOBREATHE
Fitz & the Tantrums
Bad Brains
Yelawolf
Dawes
Battles
Danny Brown
The Black Lips
SBTRKT
Phantogram
Kendrick Lamar
Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires
The Kooks
The Joy Formidable
The Antlers
Kathleen Edwards
Mimosa
Kurt Vile & the Violators
Alabama Shakes
Das Racist
Delta Spirit
Gary Clark Jr.
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Laura Marling
Trampled by Turtles
Mogwai
The War on Drugs
Ben Howard
Grouplove
Blind Pilot
ALO
The Devil Makes Three
White Denim
EMA
Here We Go Magic
K-Flay
The Lonely Forest
Mariachi El Bronx
Big Freedia
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
The Soul Rebels
Kvelertak
SOJA
Steven Bernstein’s MTO All-Stars Play Sly
Big Gigantic
Sarah Jarosz
Orgone
Darondo
Fruit Bats
Moon Taxi
More to be announced