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.

Two lucky winners will be chosen at random to win a pair of general admission tickets to this year’s festival, which officially goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 11-14. All you have to do to enter is e-mail us here (contests[at]thetripwire.com) with the subject of “Bonnaroo” and your full contact info*. The contest will run until this Friday, June 5. So enter now and keep your fingers crossed. Oh, and just a tip, be careful if driving through Putnam County, Tennessee.

*Please provide e-mail and full mailing address. E-mail addresses not already on our mailing list will be added. Contest officially ends at 6 p.m. EST on Friday, June 5th.

As we reported about a month ago, chief Woodstock promoter Michael Lang is planning two free Woodstock concerts in Berlin, Germany and in New York to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original 1969 festival. Back in March, the New York show didn’t have a venue, but they were hoping it would take place on the actual anniversary of August 15 and 16. Now reports have Lang eying Brooklyn’s Prospect Park as the NY destination, although the 15 and 16 of August would be out of the equation.

According to a report in Sunday’s NY Daily News, Lang is hoping to stage a massive Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow this summer and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe confirmed the city is in talks with Lang about the event — if he can find enough sponsors.

Lang, who is a Brooklyn native, said he knows the clock is ticking and that to make the free daylong show work, he has to find the necessary $8 million to $10 million to pay for it by the end of the month. “It’s big, it’s convenient. There’s public transportation — and Brooklyn’s cool,” said Lang, 64, to the Daily News. “I’d love to do it. But it’s been a very tough year.”

With more open space on the Long Meadow lawn than any area park, Lang is hoping to attract up to 150,000 people and feature a mix of Woodstock legends like Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Neil Young, Joe Cocker and Joan Baez, as well as newer bands that fit the vibe, like Dave Matthews and Phish. Citing a desire to get back to the peaceful origins of the festival and get away from what Lang called an “MTV event” of the 25th and 30th anniversary festivals. “The music was much too angry for me” he concluded.

The only other hitch besides the money would be the timing, as the August 15 date has already been secured. Although, according to the Daily News, Lang would rather do it at Prospect Park than worry about the actual date of the anniversary.

Ironically, The Berlin show will take place at the now-closed Tempelhof Airport on August 22 and August 23 — once a Nazi stronghold and used regularly by Adolf Hitler and his cohorts, leaving many to wonder how much peace and love can be found at the site.

Here you have it, less than a week after Coachella’s line-up was finally released, this year’s Bonnaroo line-up has been announced. Mr. Super Bowl himself, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street band, alongside recently reunited jam-band-legends Phish, will be headlining the giant four-day music festival down in good ole Manchester, Tennessee on June 11-14.  

This year’s festival will celebrate Bonnaroo’s eighth consecutive year running, and will include over 120 bands; and what a solid — if not exhausting — selection of bands it is. TV on the Radio, Wilco, The Beastie Boys, Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Crystal Castles and Grizzly Bear are among the swarm of artists we are excited to see take the stage at the massive music fest. 

Phish will be playing twice during the festival, which will certainly be a special treat for fans who have been waiting since 2004 for their reunion to happen. And for fans who can’t attend the monstrosity of a festival in the heart of Tennessee, they can watch it on FUSE, who will be exclusively airing live coverage of the event through both its television station and websites. 

Bonnaroo organizers are also switching some things up this year, as the expensive four-day tickets will be available on a payment plan for those who are suffering from joblessness, but still need to see their favorite musical acts at a four-day fiasco of sweat, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Tickets for Bonnaroo go on sale this Friday, February 7 at 12 noon EST. Below is the list of confirmed artists, which came with the promise of more to be announced in the coming weeks.

2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival confirmed artists
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

As the countdown to festival season begins, some fests are happy to announce their line-ups (Langerado!) while others prefer to hold back. Keep people guessing. Build the anticipation. Of course that starts the rumor mills churnin’, and the first rumors about Coachella come from Rolling Stone, who are speculating that Britney Spears will make her way to the heralded festival this year.

The thought is that Britney will do a dance tent set, as Madonna did in 2006. Interestingly, Britney’s touring schedule has a big gap in it between stops in L.A. and Anaheim, California, on Saturday, April 18, smack-dab in the middle of the fest. Other acts in the rumor mill considering stops at Coachella are The Pretenders, The Killers, Keane, We Are Scientists and festival vets Red Hot Chili Peppers.

In other festival news, Rolling Stone also reports that sources close to Phish say the band will headline Bonnaroo for two nights. It would be Trey Anastasio’s fifth time on the Bonnaroo stage, and Phish’s announcement in October that they’ll play three dates in 2009 makes the idea even more likely. VIP tickets and pre-sales go out with 2008, so if all this excitement is enough for you, hurry up and invest in the rumors now.