Nas & Damian Marley

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NPR Music strikes wonderfully again; they just announced that they’ll be broadcasting over 40 sets from this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival beginning next Thursday.

Music, together with three partner public radio stations, sets up camp by the four main stages at this year’s Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, presenting three days of live webcasts with dozens of performances from popular musicians. From June 11-13, NPR Music, together with Member stations KUT Austin, The Current from Minnesota Public Radio and WFUV New York, team up to offer more than 40 full sets from acts taking the Festival’s Which, What, This, and That stages, including The , , , Nas and Damian Marley, , , , The Flaming Lips (performing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon), , , , , and .

If you’ve followered their coverage of SXSW in the past, you know that these webcasts (and subsequently archived sets) are top notch. This will likely be a few sets I set my watch to. We’ll post the schedule when we get it.

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Last night during the second set of Umphrey’s McGee on Couch Tour, we got an announcement from keyboardist Joel Cummins regarding a festival that the band was going to be a part of in Chicago on Labor Day weekend. The festival is called the North Coast Music Festival and it’s going to be some serious heat for live music that weekend in the city. To get a lineup like this in Chicago starts to provides options to people besides the behemoth that is Lollapalooza, and the smaller and more eclectic and banging mix for your buck seriously puts this in good contention to be a standout festival of the year. Let’s hope for some bomb collaborations.

Check out their Twitter page here and follow along for the official lineup announcement. We have it on good authority that this is the lineup we’ll be seeing when it gets dropped.

2010

Lineup:
(Live)
Nas & Damian Marley





Paul Van Dyk


& the County




Jakob Dylan & Three Legs










Seriously tight. Who’s already planning their weekend there?

Update:

The daily schedule has been announced…

Day 1 – Friday, September 3, 2010 – $35
The , Paul Van Dyk, Pretty Lights, Paul Kalkbrenner, Orchard Lounge

Day 2 – Saturday, September 4, 2010 – $35
Umphrey’s McGee, Moby (DJ Set), De La Soul, Cold War Kids, Jay Electronica, Boys Noize, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Benga, Future Rock, Jakob Dylan & Three Legs, Van Ghost, Two Fresh

Day 3 – Sunday, September 5, 2010 – $35
Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, The Disco Biscuits, Benny Benassi, Flying Lotus, Mayer Hawthorne & The County Green Velvet (Live), Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Phantogram, Loyal Divide