Neko Case

Late Night with continues to kill it with great musical guests. Last night, the Dodos performed “Don’t Try and Hide It” with sitting in on back-up vocals. Check it out: READ MORE

The lineup for 2011 was just announced, nearly a full day early here on the West Coast and the same day that Electric Forest announced their lineup. Some fans may consider a tough choice between the two festivals, but not me and about 50 other friends out here in California. is an obvious choice as it is, but with headlining the 21st annual festival and , , Warren Haynes, , and more joining them for the weekend, it seems even that much more obvious where I’ll be headed.

Here’s the initial list of artists scheduled to attend:

My Morning Jacket
Ween
Neko Case

Yonder Mountain String Band


Dr. Dog


Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk

Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers
(featuring Eyvind Kang & Rudy Royston)
The Travelin’ McCourys
















Audio Angel
and many more TBA…

The lineup was announced via the festival’s YouTube channel, just like last year…

This is making the rounds today (via CoS).

Does Neko Case Have To Choke A Bitch [YouTube]

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The lineup for Bumbershoot 2010 in Seattle was just announced, too. They’ve tapped Bob Dylan, , Weezer, Hole and more for this year’s festival set for Labor Day weekend, which is marking the 40th year that the event has been taking place. Our buddy Kane will likely be there covering the event for us, and he already pinged me and said he’s looking forward to the event.

Read on for the full lineup… READ MORE

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The all-new Hangout Beach Music Festival has announced a number of additions to its 2010 lineup, including: and Three Legs featuring and Kelly Hogan, and the Nocturnals, NEEDTOBREATHE, Jeff Austin & Friends featuring Larry Keel, Kirsten Pierce, Timmy Curran, Wild Sweet Orange and Rustlanders.

Relix has a fantastic rundown of what went down this weekend at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival in Golden Gate Park.

I went down there on Saturday and caught me some , then , then , and finally to finish off my day. I had a great sunburn when I got home, too.

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Speaking of Dr. Dog and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, I forgot to post the lineup on this when it got posted. Or was it just posted today? I didn’t make it out for this at all last year, but you can believe I’ll be in Golden Gate Park for most of that weekend. You really can’t beat a free music festival. READ MORE

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NPR is webcasting tomorrow night from the 9:30 Club featuring Neko Case with Crooked Fingers opening up the show.

Music’s “Live in Concert from All Songs Considered” series will webcast a live concert with mesmerizing singer-songwriter Neko Close, from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 9. Case, who also performs as part of , will play songs from her eighth solo album, Middle Cyclone. The entire show will be available for live, free streaming beginning at 9:30PM (ET) at Music — www..org/music — with an opening performance from Eric Bachmann’s Crooked Fingers. The show will later be archived and podcast at the site

You can subscribe to the Live Concerts from All Songs Considered podcast feed to keep up with all of the archived performances, with downloads going back as far as the beginning of the podcast. I regularly listen to a lot of these podcasts. Good stuff.