Bonnaroo Music Festival 2009 Lineup

2009's Bonnaroo Music Festival lineup has been posted. Gather up your tents and slip into your Birkenstocks; it's time for a road trip to Manchester, Tennessee.

If 2009's Bonnaroo experience is anything like the one I had in 2008, confusion and tomfoolery are the name of the game. It starts in a stuffed Wal-Mart parking lot with anxious festival goers. Soon you find yourself crossing your fingers while officials search your car. Before you know it, Bonnaroo is in full swing. Suddenly you are stumbling through the festival grounds, desperately trying to explain that you want to see a band performing at "This Tent"'"no, "That Tent"'"or is it "Which Tent?"

In 2008, crowds were willing to endure extreme heats and forego hot showers for the festivities. This is not necessarily for the bands, or even the chance to observe headphone-wearing dancers at the Silent Disco (it is exactly what it sounds like), it's the chance to truly "let your freak flag fly"'"or, watch others do it. Last year I saw an elderly woman dancing wildly to Pearl Jam while a man in a too-small Wolverine costume traversed the crowd. My nearly $300 ticket was instantly justified.

The 2009 Bonnaroo Lineup, courtesy of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Official Website at www.bonnaroo.com/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

Band of Horses

Merle Haggard

MGMT

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The Decemberists

Girl Talk

Bon Iver

Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabate

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Galactic

The Del McCoury band

of Montreal

Allen Toussaint

Coheed & 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 Ade

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 Toure

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

More Artists to Be Announced