2006

Bonnaroo has once again sold out in advance, with 80,000 tickets sold entirely through the festival’s Web site. Set to take place this weekend, the three-day camping and music festival will once again be held on the same 700-plus-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., 60 miles southeast of Nashville.

Along with headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Phil Lesh and Friends, Bonnaroo will present well over 100 acts on its nine stages. In addition to its music lineup, non-music attractions like a cinema, a comedy tent and an onsite beer festival will be available 24 hours a day.

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On June 20th, Rhino Records will release a Willie Nelson 3-CD boxed set, The Complete Atlantic Sessions.

This 3-CD boxed set is the first to spotlight Willie’s historic Atlantic output in its entirety. Disc one presents 1973’s David Briggs/Arif Mardin-produced debut Shotgun Willie, remastered and expanded with 12 bonus tracks. Disc two presents Willie’s first concept album, 1974’s Jerry Wexler-produced Phases And Stages, remastered and expanded with ten bonus tracks. Disc three presents the Wexler-produced in-concert classic Live At The Texas Opry House, expanded with five bonus tracks.

The legendary career of Texas-born music icon Willie Nelson has spanned six decades. He first rose to fame as a Nashville-based songwriter, penning many now-timeless standards, including “Crazy,” a smash hit for Patsy Cline. Feeling constrained by the Nashville establishment, Willie relocated to Austin, Texas, in the early 1970s, where the merging of rock and country audiences made a huge impression on him. He began fusing folk and roots-rock with a rebellious “outlaw” country flavor, inventing an authentic, stripped-down sound that remains vastly influential. At this pivotal point in his evolution, Willie signed to Atlantic Records, delivering two signature studio albums revered as all-time masterpieces: Shotgun Willie and Phases And Stages. This boxed set presents Live At The Texas Opry House, recorded during the same period, as a stand-alone disc for the first time ever.

Snow Patrol has postponed all of its planned US summer tour dates due to frontman Gary Lightbody’s ongoing throat problems. According to a press release, a doctor has instructed Lightbody not to sing again until mid-July.

The band is currently rescheduling all of its dates for September. A firm itinerary is expected by next week.

Two decades after helping define the sound of alternative-rock with Husker Du, Bob Mould could help redefine the sound of pop itself as part of an unusual partnership with progressive house wizard and Deep Dish-collaborator Richard Morel. Named after an ultimate fight in pro-wrestling and drawing from Mould

Bunny Wailer, the reggae legend who was one of the original Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, will tour for the first time with a new generation of Marleys.
Wailer will play alongside Marley’s sons, Stephen and Ziggy, on the Roots, Rock, Reggae Festival, a month-long tour that opens Aug. 6 in Redway, Calif., after a year hiatus.

Stephen Marley, 34, will headline the tour, which will make stops including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston and Philadelphia. Ziggy Marley, 37, will also perform, as will the group Ozomatli.
Wailer, who last released the album Communication in 2000, is the lone surviving member of the Wailers. Marley died of cancer in 1981; Tosh was murdered in 1987.

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Vegoose.com has announced the dates of this year’s event. Moving to a weeklong festival, this year shows will take place starting October 27th and running straight through Halloween.

Details on headliners and a full artist line-up have not yet been revealed.

The debut event last year held at Sam Boyd Stadium included Dave Matthews and Friends, Widespread Panic, Jack Johnson, Beck, Phil Lesh and many others.

Stay tuned to vegoose.com for more info