The gods have been smiting merry festival-goers across the globe this summer; first Glastonbury and now Bonnaroo and the CMA Music Festival. According to NewsChannel 5, the National Weather Service has decreed a severe thunderstorm watch for Coffee County (amongst other Tennessee counties) which may affect the Bonnaroo festivities starting this Thursday. Additionally, people were evacuated from tents at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville due to strong wind gusts and potentially dangerous lightning.

—Nikki Turner

Have you seen the line-up for Bonnaroo? No seriously, have you seen it? Eclectic doesn’t even begin to describe a festival that can showcase Merle Haggard and Crystal Castles in the same line-up. Or how about a reunited Phish playing 2 shows in the same arena as The Dillinger Escape Plan? So you have absolutely no reason to not want to win tickets to the 2009 edition of Bonnaroo.
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They’ve been on SNL and all over late night, and now they’re hitting the road — but are we the only ones wondering when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will bring some love back to Brooklyn?
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In his usual fashion, David Byrne has been keeping himself quite busy, and now the multitasking musical genius will be curating his own stage at Bonnaroo this year — and is the first musician to ever do so at the festival as well.
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It’s called Octahedron, it clocks in at about 49 minutes and practically everyone who worked on it has a compound last name. It’s the forthcoming fifth studio album from The Mars Volta, and it can be in your hands as early as June 23.
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