bonnaroo 2009 lineup

Just ahead of Manchester festival Bonnaroo's line-up announcement, genre-jumping West Coast fest Coachella unveiled its performers for 2009. In the bold print: Paul McCartney, The Killers, Amy Winehouse, The Cure and Morrissey, along with a healthy collection of other performers from the cool kids' table.

Bonnaroo will be Springsteen's only North American festival of the year, as well as the only festival on the 2009 itinerary of reunited jam band Phish. According to Jonathan Mayers, president of festival co-producer Superfly, Phish will play on the Bonnaroo main stage on two separate nights: a two-set performance and a late-evening set.

Unfortunately for the local scene, this announced line-up sure makes it look like our talent pool isn't landing at said table so much this year.

As Rolling Stone first predicted in December 2008, Phish will headline two nights at this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival, with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band also topping the bill. While the two marquee acts don’t really come as a surprise following months of rumors and speculation, the talent underneath the headliners is sure to drop some jaws: The Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, Snoop Dogg, David Byrne, Al Green, TV on the Radio and many more will be on hand at the Manchester, Tennessee festival on June 11-14th. Tickets go on sale February 7th, and are being offered in a recession-happy plan that includes five $50 payments.

Need more incentive to attend? How about Animal Collective, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elvis Costello, MGMT, Girl Talk, the Mars Volta, Jenny Lewis, Santogold, Merle Haggard and more as 120 bands and over 20 comedians will perform at the 2009 festival. For Phish fans, this festival provides an opportunity to get some tickets after the Live Nation ticket troubles from last weekend. The addition of Phish also represents the ‘Roo reconnecting with its more jam-band-oriented past after a few years that saw bands like Tool and Metallica serve as headliners. Other jam-friendly acts on the bill include moe., Gov’t Mule and the Del McCoury Band. Bonnaroo organizers promise to add more acts in the coming weeks.

Then there's, you know, the line-up, which features Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (with or without Max Weinberg and gridiron grandstanding we can't be sure) and Phish, who will play two reunited shows over the four-day span. Poking their heads out of respective holes are the Beastie Boys, Al Green, Merle Haggard and Booker T (with the DBTs). And Paste readers might find themselves heading that ol' Tennessee way for the likes of David Byrne, The Low Anthem, Band of Horses, Ted Leo, Wilco, TV on the Radio, Elvis Costello, MGMT, Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Lucinda Williams and....oh, just look at the full list already:

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
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

Tickets go on sale at Bonnaroo.com this Saturday, Feb. 7, at noon EST.