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BONNAROO MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2012 LINEUPFEATURING
RADIOHEAD, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, PHISH, BON IVER,
THE BEACH BOYS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR, THE SHINS,
THE AVETT BROTHERS, SKRILLEX, AZIZ ANSARI, ALICE COOPER, FEIST,
CHILDISH GAMBINO, BLACK STAR, tUnE-yArDs, BAD BRAINS AND MORE

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.
 
After an unforgettable 10^th year celebration in 2011, festival organizers have come back with one of the most eclectic and striking lineups to date, drawing from an astounding range of music scenes to create what is sure to be another incomparable weekend for the ages. The breadth of the programming is consistently innovative each year and has become one of the key signature aspects of this legendary festival, whose uniquely open minded yet discerning and passionate community thrives on its intelligent diversity. A consistent power in music discovery, Bonnaroo once again will expose its fanbase to legends, current favorites as well as new artists who are about to break. Featured acts in 2012 include:  Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, The Beach Boys Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks, Bon Iver, The Shins, The Avett Brothers, Skrillex, Black Star, Alice Cooper, Feist, Flogging Molly, Childish Gambino, Ben Folds Five, The Roots, Bad Brains, The Civil Wars, St. Vincent, Alabama Shakes, tUnE-yArDs, Punch Brothers, Flying Lotus, Dawes, The Joy Formidable, Das Racist, Grouplove, Gary Clark, Jr., Kurt Vile & The Violators, Big Freedia and more.
 
As the only round-the-clock major U.S. music festival, Bonnaroo packs an unparalleled amount of entertainment options into its four days. The event has offered its attendees the amenities and community spirit of a small city, with 24 hours of activities including a comedy theater, cinema festival, broo’ers festival, silent disco, salon, sustainable gardening lessons, arcade, Internet cafés, restaurants, yoga classes and hundreds of high quality food and craft vendors. Rolling Stone magazine called the 2011 event “epic,” saying the weekend was full of “surprise and wonder.” Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield intoned, “If Woodstock were like this, we never would have left.”
 
Festival organizers are also excited to announce their new partnership with YouTube creating Bonnaroo365, a new entertainment channel on YouTube featuring original programming, daily content and legendary live festival performances all created and curated by the Bonnaroo producers. Bonnaroo365 will be an unprecedented destination for the community to celebrate “Good Stuff,” the literal definition of Bonnaroo. This extension of Bonnaroo represents its transition from being mainly an annual terrestrial event to having a presence in the day-to-day life of likeminded entertainment fans worldwide. Specific programming details and schedules will be released in the coming months.

Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Phish The Beach Boys Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks Bon Iver The Avett Brothers The Shins Foster The People Skrillex Aziz Ansari Dispatch Feist The Roots Alice Cooper SuperJam Black Star The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars Ludacris Ben Folds Five Flogging Molly Spectrum Road featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid Mac Miller Childish Gambino Major Lazer tUnE-yArDs Afrocubism Flying Lotus Umphrey’s McGee Little Dragon St. Vincent City and Colour The Civil Wars Young The Giant Two Door Cinema Club Punch Brothers NEEDTOBREATHE Fitz & The Tantrums Bad Brains Yelawolf Dawes Battles Danny Brown

The Black Lips SBTRKT Phantogram Kendrick Lamar Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires The Kooks The Joy Formidable The Antlers Kathleen Edwards Mimosa Kurt Vile & The Violators Alabama Shakes Das Racist Delta Spirit Gary Clark Jr. Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk Laura Marling Trampled by Turtles Mogwai The War On Drugs Ben Howard Grouplove Blind Pilot ALO The Devil Makes Three White Denim EMA Here We Go Magic K-Flay The Lonely Forest Mariachi El Bronx Big Freedia Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. The Soul Rebels Kvelertak SOJA Steven Bernstein’s MTO Allstars Plays Sly Big Gigantic Sarah Jarosz Orgone Darondo Fruit Bats Moon Taxi