"Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The 11th annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 7 - 10 on the same beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. A full list of confirmed acts follows, and more will be announced in the coming weeks. The final Bonnaroo 2012 lineup will total over 125 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days.Tickets for the event will go on sale on this Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 12 noon EST exclusively at bonnaroo.com."

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Avi Buffalo @ South Street Seaport (more by Chris La Putt)

Tickets for the !!! shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 6 and October 7 are on sale now. 2 Day Passes are also available.

Tickets are still on sale for the official BrooklynVegan CMJ showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 21st. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, Yuck, Young Man, and a special guest, are all on the bill.

Tickets are on sale for the Grinderman show at Nokia Theatre.

Tickets are on sale for the Corrosion of Conformity shows at Starland Ballroom and Highline Ballroom.

Tickets are still on sale for the September 6th Sleep show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (September 8th is sold out).

Tickets are on sale for the Unkle show at Webster Hall.

Tickets are now on sale for BOTH Man or Astroman? shows happening in NYC.

Avi Buffalo are playing The Mercury Lounge on October 13. Tickets are on sale now.

VV Brown is playing The Bowery Ballroom on October 24. Tickets are on sale now.

Mike Krum is playing The Mercury Lounge on September 23. Tickets are on sale now.

Cypress Hill is playing Nokia Theatre on August 20th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets for the Here We Go Magic show at Bowery Ballroom are on sale now.

Bonobo is playing Webster Hall on November 8. Tickets are on sale now.

Robert Randolph and the Family Band are playing Terminal 5 on November 13. Tickets are on sale now.

Tickets for the Kate Nash shows at Terminal 5 and The Wellmont Theater are on sale.

Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang played Eagle Street on August 21st. Video from that show below...

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Spoon @ Radio City in March (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

Spoon, whose next show is at the MAHA Music Festival in Omaha, Nebraska, will be coming to New York soon as part of their handful of dates opening for Arcade Fire. Those include the shows at Madison Square Garden on August 4th and 5th (which Owen Pallett also opens).

Spoon's upcoming tour dates also include Matador's Lost Weekend, Austin City Limits, and a free September 12th show at Clark, NJ's Oak Ridge Park (a little more than an hour by train from NYC). There they'll headline the 13th annual Union County MusicFest. The free five-day fair will have two days of music, Saturday, September 11th and Sunday, September 12th. The first night's bands include The Bravery, Soul Asylum, OK Go, Mike Peters and Friends, Willie Nile, Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social, and 61 North. Joining Spoon on the second night are Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Nils Lofgren Acoustic Duo, The Zombies and Suzanne Vega. More bands are still to be announced.

All Spoon dates below....

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photos by Chris Graham

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here's some of that lost material.

For what was the worst day weather-wise for San Francisco's Outide Lands Festival, its last day (Sunday, August 30th) may have been the best musically. Cold fog and wind took the place of cloudless, sunny skies, but those who attended witnessed sets by Modest Mouse, the Dead Weather, the Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, Calexico, Matt & Kim , and soul legends Robert Randolph and Betty Layvette, and MIA, who complained via Twitter about the fest's substitution of Tenacious D for the Beastie Boys, then covered two Beasties songs, "Intergalactic" and "Sabatage, in her set.

Scrambling to find replacement headliners for the Beastie Boys was a common theme for festivals in summer '09, after the group was forced to cancel all dates when Adam Yauch was dianosed with cancer (he's since had sugery, and reports say that part of his health regiment is a vegan/organic diet). Beastie Boys' slot was filled by Jay-Z at All Points West and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Lollapalooza

More pictures from Day Three below...

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After meeting his biological father for the first time, GE powerhouse Jack Donaghy discovered his dad, professor Milton Greene, needed a kidney. Not being a potential organ donor himself, Mr. Donaghy turned to some very affluent friends in the entertainment world. This partnership created the phenomenon, "Kidney Now!' -- a benefit concert featuring some of the most recognizable names in the music industry. With the help of this song, Milton Green just might find the kidney match he needs and Jack Donaghy may be granted the gift of a father he never knew.

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