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“Thanks everyone for the compliments and I'm so fucking happy people liked this edit!!! I made it when I was around 15 yrs old (I'm 22 now) and can't believe it has so many views (even if it's only for the song, that's cool. It's my favorite from the misfits!) Just wanted to say y'all made my day from the positive comments. Also, I know the intro is long as fuck BUT CMON ITS CLASSIC!!!!”
(I selected this comment since it was written seven years ago. Happy 29th birthday, “Beck Martens”.)
No LCD Soundsystem, Sturgill, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan in Porto kinda took me by surprise. It's a week later and booking wise all of these would make sense to play both Barca and Porto. 2024 had much more of the bigger artists they shared.
Can someone make a list of bands that are on the Barcelona lineup but not the Porto one?
The suggestion of possible Thursday headliners continues late on Monday into Tuesday to varying degrees of plausibility > cincinnasti prays for God to smite dubstep from the earth, Amen > the people debate if Luke Combs is good or not (I’m on the fence. He put out an album about fatherhood this year and that’s kind of gay. Like…spawning another man from your loins? Kinda sus.) > At some point on the What Podcast C3 Brad said that they’re not getting Paul McCartney or any other “very large, blow your mind names.” > Jortles says Bonnaroo should be trying lock a big name act every year and people discuss the merits of this. Personally we’re seeing a lot of this in the Coachella thread too right now and idk I just don’t think it’s particularly feasible or possible all the time. I think Brad is sort of right actually that the overall lineup should be good instead of just one 2-hour block…….but the problem is, well……. > Also there won’t be be a “legacy headliner” on Sunday. (Remeber when it just used to be a jam band!? Someone call Bob Dylan the way the times they are a-changin’.) > people debate the merits of Bonnaroo still having unopposed headliners > RooBus finally outright states he thinks Vampire Weekend and Gizz are playing > debates on the merits of Bonnaroo appealing to a younger audience (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) > deegle still dancing around Luke Combs maybe being the Thursday headliner > cincinnasti brings up a good point: the Thursday headliner could be the Exhumed Corpse of Charles Manson playing a Beach Boys Cover Set > at the end of the day, is Bonnaroo any good? > No! We’ve established this! Moving on! > missingalim comes by to ask the important questions, like “Have Above & Beyond been confirmed yet?” (Not yet!) > does Luke Combs attract a hot crowd? (…) > Yeah things did start heating up around this time because nothing gets the people fired up like Luke Combs! Hopefully nothing will happen on Tuesday night that will kill the vibe entirely > Remember when Metallica headlined? Remember when Jay-Z headlined? Well, what if someone you didn’t like headlined instead? > people generate mocks around Luke Combs > Osees! > Miley Cyrus is briefly brought up and then immediately shot down > people list 10 artists that would draw them to Bonnaroo. Look I know you all want me to come up with some obscure artist as a joke here to satisfyingly conclude this part of the recap but I can’t do it. I listen to obscure Ghanaian jazz records all the time. You all gotta put in the work and do the same sometime if you want to keep up.
Anyway. Uh oh! The election results start coming in > people start suggesting famously anti-Trump artists to play > Canadian Andrew WK pooh poohs the Gizz/VW rumor a bit > sorry paulinky but you gotta respond to these posts a bit quicker because if I see five posts by the same person in a row my eyes kind of glaze over. This would include myself > Arctic Monkeys are taking festival dates next year, in a discussion that goes nowhere > The Primavera Porto lineup drops. Sabrina Carpenter isn’t on it for those of you who like to read way too much into shit like that > Bonnaroo did absolutely fail this year by not booking Nunco Mates o Mandarim > people talk about which acts they’d like to have seen from Porto that are definitively out for Bonnaroo > Excision apparently was confirmed out > people talk about Turnstile > missingalim hears we already have our highest billed electronic act on Thursday and doesn’t immediately suggest Above & Beyond, which is lightly mind-blowing > RooBus asks what generations we want to keep going for the next crop of Bonnaroo attendees (in 2016 I camped next to a group of guys from Florida. On Monday before they left they all took huge blunt hits and then drove off. hope everyone keeps the ‘driving high’ tradition alive)
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Last call for any questions for Brad and Cory, we record our thing with them this Monday afternoon!
What to do with consistent pain in the left kidney?
Cranberry juice
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Manders mock > deegle is “confident Hozier…would be billed pretty, pretty high” > sorry if you thought that was a confirmation I should clarify the part omitted by the ellipsis was “(if on the poster)” > deegle implies the #2 name on Saturday sucks shit > I overexplain a Sabrina Carpenter joke > Big Ass Truck! > Do you have any last minute questions for Brad C3 and Cory C3 on for the RooBus Podcast? > Nope! > I don’t! > Some people ask joke questions some people ask serious questions. Ok have a good weekend every one!
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“Jack White flicked his cigarette in my face when I came too close to him before a show. This song rocks hard, though!”
Is Jack Johnson going to play? > No > it would be interesting if artists curated tents at Bonnaroo again > MJ Lenderman should’ve killed ppl instead of tryna hoop cause he tall as hell! > Nickel Creek! > Pedro Winter told a guy on Reddit Justice would be playing in Texas next year, so we havethat to look forward to > tranter says he knows the headliners which causes people to lightly spiral for a bit > RooBus is hearing more things about the lineup and dares to ask the question “well what if the headliners weren’t particularly good? What would you do then?” > he also says the top 8 is “stacked” > the economic realities of the post-COVID touring world vs. the quality of acts Bonnaroo chooses to book: fight! > (no one wins this round sadly.) > you know speculation season is heating up when Radius Claus comes in to ask for an explanation about something that happened a week ago > just fired up my portable problematic behavior detector and pointed it at Luke Combs and it went off like a firestorm. Sorry folks nothing we can do about that > esteban and paulinky have a post off
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“WE MAKING OUT WITH THE HOMIES WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥 “
Today is August 29, 2024 and I just noticed I’ve made 19,554 posts on Inforoo.com since January 12, 2015. Realistically, I’d guess that 19,539 of those have been made since March 10, 2020. I considered 20,000 but that’s way too fucking many, so I’m going to write 2,000 words about my experience with this community. I love you guys.
How do I even start something like this? I had the idea to do it while a little stoned and listening to Kid A. I was a diehard Radiohead hater for a very long time, long enough that I paid real money to go to Bonnaroo 2012 and skipped their headlining set. Fast forward 8 years and I’m doing a festival draft on some ancient forum and agree to giving them a real chance. I listened to every album in a row, nonstop while driving Uber for a day. That experience didn’t blow my mind or anything, but it did make me come to terms with the fact that I was probably wrong about Radiohead being bad.
I joined the board in 2015 for the same reason as everyone: scoops. Why the fuck does anyone need scoops? What is wrong with our brain chemistry that we desperately need to know who is on the lineup for a music festival next year, before the festival tells everyone else? Speculation season is so fucking stupid on paper. But like, it’s fun? I lurked a little bit every December until I *knew* that 2020 would be my big return to Bonnaroo. Tool, Tame, Lizzo! I convinced my fiancé to buy in on the presale on the strength of those three acts alone, plus my stories from 2012, 13,14, and 16.
Today is September 19, 2024, and I’m up to 19,714 posts. I’ve been pretty bad about updating this word doc that has been sitting unclosed on my desktop for weeks. I’m currently listening to The Dare’s new album for the second time, and it’s very fun but can be best described as Greta Van Soundsystem. Oh fuck that reminds me I have to watch Greta Van Fleet live next weekend. They’re opening for Metallica in Mexico City, in the first time I’ve left the country since I got here in 2001. I’m a military brat and consider myself lucky that my dad retired 6 months before 9/11. I’m so pumped for this goddamn trip, which I assume will happen before I finish writing this post. I saw Metallica once before but it was night two of a two night stand at Welcome to Rockville, and they played all the hits the first night. My set was Hardwired > Horseman > Sanitarium – The Black Album in full but in reverse – Damage Inc > Creeping Death. I still consider this nearly the worst case scenario Metallica setlist, and piggy pablo gives me shit for that opinion to this day. I finally get my redemption next weekend, got floor tickets for 2 unique sets and I will finally get to see One, Master of Puppets, Blackened, Fuel, etc.
Speaking of Welcome to Rockville, the main reason I got to go was because Jake Jortles said “hell yeah” when I asked if a friend and I could crash on his couch so I could see the Mudvayne reunion (and also Metallica). 3 years later he asked me to DJ his wedding, which ended up one of the most memorable weekends of my life.
Inforoo couch surfing is an incredible thing. I invited Capital Cincy to stay with me for Furnace Fest 2023, and he returned the favor for the Summer 2024 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Ohio Meetup Extravaganza. I’ve crashed with trantsgiving and Insane Cum Posse many times for various Atlanta shows, and they’ve crashed with me for basically no reason at all? Like I can say “hey you guys wanna come down for a pool day next month” and they just show up and drag along Tony and faye webster and we all get hammered and it’s a great time. Oh speaking of Tony he was the first board member I ever met and that day was so fucking awkward and I will cherish that memory forever but will not tell y’all that story (nothing juicy, calm down). esteban let my wife and I crash on his couch for a weekend while we went to see the Raiders (just win baby!) not cross the 50 yard line in the Superdome (just lose baby!). That man is the greatest host of all time and I pray I’m half as cool as he is in the future. For years I have been naming my video game characters Steve and I feel so validated that the Steve I know in real life is an absolute king.
Today is October 31, 2024, and I have made 19,951 posts on Inforoo dot com. I meant to come back to this doc a while ago but life has kinda been kicking my ass for a couple months. Tonight I worked the door at my seventh Grateful Dead cover band show of the year, then drove Uber for a few hours to try to get that Halloween money. I had 8 completed rides and 10 people cancelled on me so I made about half the money I should have. This post currently has only 799 words so I really gotta type some more shit up if I’m trying to hit 2000 words.
To come back to something from a previous update, that Mexico City trip was both incredible and sorta shitty all at the same time. It rained almost the entire time, we accidentally stayed in the most expensive neighborhood in the city, and it happened to be a couple days before their presidential inauguration so many of the historic sites were shut down to tourists and the city square had literally thousands of cops, lil awkward! But the Metallica shows fucking slapped and the CMLL Lucha Libre was probably the most fun I’ve ever had at a wrestling show (and I’ve been to WrestleMania!). Greta Van Fleet didn’t suck that bad! I think they would be a great band if they could figure out how to write a good song.
Two days ago cum and kern came to my place and we drank a bunch of Fireball then went to see Microwave and it was one of the most fun nights of my life. I know most of y’all aren’t involved with the Inforoo Discord server but the absolute best thing about it is the Microwave obsession. Holy fuck yall, Microwave is a good band. I bet garageland would enjoy them. Speaking of GL, he’s the absolute #1 inforooer I haven’t met yet that I desperately want to, with shuck very close behind. @everyone else, listen to Microwave.
Survivor is bad, right? I know how much the boards like ranking shit, and I’ve been committed to running those godforsaken threads for like three years now except that season that 3post1jack1 took over and I can not understate how much I appreciate him doing that. I really look up to posty and admire the hell out of his commitment to sobriety. I say that as I drunkenly type a stream of consciousness into a word doc that honestly may never be seen by anyone but me and maybe my wife if she turns on the computer and I forgot to minimize Word. Round 15 of Crash Survivor literally didn’t get a single reply and I think I’m probably done with the whole thing after this. Crash Survivor also sat in my notes app for two years as a joke and I only posted it because I was out of ideas. I haven’t updated the Survivor Reference Thread in a while and I’m desperately hoping Crash Survivor happens to be the 20th thread in Season Three so I can just run the Ultimate Survivor and put this shit to bed.
I’m curious who might be the most offended if I didn’t tag them in this post. Definitely wouldn’t be Dad Dog , he’s fuckin Teflon. supЯefan doesn’t read Survivor so he can’t get mad that I think he’s a guy with a lot of interests and really good taste in music but hate how he talks to people like they’re stupid. Bro not everyone follows every single fucking leak in music festival history so you should really be nicer to people. You take real nice pictures though! Vieux rolls one hell of a joint, Cookin' Mama cooks real goddamn good, tЯist♡n is hot, sang_xcx likes Clutch, Jim Watson looks beautiful with a martini in his hand. The first thing I ever said to beebee in real life was “what the fuck is your actual name?” Damn I added 600 words to this post tonight so I should probably go to bed or something.
It’s time for a fourth update to this thing, 20,000 is closing in real quick. Like I have to do this right now or I’ll run over within the next hour and then this whole project was for nothing! I wrote the last few updates in the middle of the night, usually after a few drinks, and this one is in the afternoon dead sober so maybe the tone will feel a little different? This update is soundtracked by Imaginal Disk which I imagine ends up ranking pretty high in our AOTY tournament this year. Final Four maybe? It’s good stuff. Man I hope the Bonnaroo lineup in 2025 is good. Since I’m posting this in the headliner thread, might as well make the Teddy Flair Official Veteran’s Day Top 8 Prediction!
Luke Combs - John Summit Olivia Rodrigo – Vampire Weekend Tyler, The Creator – Justice Hozier – Phoebe Bridgers
They’re also gonna book Queens of the Stone Age and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and I’m going to have the greatest weekend of my life. I just made my 19,999th post so I really need to clamp down and finish writing this thing. On Wednesday I’m flying to Texas to spend a few days with piggy pablo . We’re going to a Rockets game, a Machine Girl show, 2 King Gizz shows, a bunch of restaurants, and maybe even a Jack White show? It lines up too good and I hope we can snag tickets. Well he hasn’t seen my message about it yet and I’m hoping he doesn’t say something to the effect of “bro I hate Jack White” but we shall see! I skipped Jack at Bonnaroo 2014 to get close for either Disclosure or the Skrillex Superjam which I kinda regret but also not really? Those sets were both insanely cool and I was right up front. Anyway, pablo came to my wedding and the day before was actually the first time we met in person. Cool guy. I asked him to hold my phone right before the ceremony started and accidentally called him Pablo instead of his real name because I was a little distracted by the whole getting married thing. My wife loves meeting people from Inforoo but any time I ask if she wants to join one of the group chats or whatever she’s just like “no you can keep that to yourself” lol. She’s taken a lot of interest in the updates I give her about what’s happening around here which I really appreciate.
Anyway, word count is getting close so I should wrap this up. This website, and the people who participate in its community, have legitimately changed my life for the better. I see more live music, know better people, travel more, laugh more throughout my day, and just get more out of life. I may eventually drift away but I’ll always cherish y’all and the memories I have with all of you and especially this guy:
Today is November 11, 2024, and I have 20,000 posts on Inforoo.com. Thanks for reading, I’m tearing up as I type these last few words.
(Sometimes we go for sincerity. Fuck you)
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Bdawg wants something to happen - buddy, you’re gonna get it > we’re running out of language to Pigs > look, Luke Combs fans may be nasty, filthy pigs mucking around in their own shit, but that doesn’t mean we can’t accept them for who they are > Uh Oh! Tommy Richman doesn’t have a TN tour date on his new tour > LSZEE probably out > multiple people suggest Kanye Musgraves could be in the top 8 in rapid succession, which leads to today’s meme that honestly made me laugh every time it came up > FKA twigs!> is definitely not playing Bonnaroo > Mk.gee might though > who the fuck is “Delicate Steve” > Teddy loves you > oh FUCK oh SHIT there’s a new Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs song! Go stream that shit! > moe. might play Bonnaroo too who knows > Pitchfork Festival Is Dead and We Have Killed It > seriously I’m still so bummed about Pitchfork. “Lol” > Bonnaroo posted an 8 second video on Instagram, please double check and make sure your underwear is clean > Are we joking about Luke Combs? (Personally, I’m not. He is a literal pig dog sheep.) > MCR is up to…something > (side note: the logo they posted on their Instagram post fucking sucks shit. Why is the M is a K? What kind of fake Cyrillic ass bull shit is this??? Fuck off.) > What other artists might Bonnaroo book to appeal to Luke Combs fans? (FKA twigs??) > 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨> There’s a new RooBus podcast with C3 Brad and AC Cory > but before that GL says MCR probably isn’t playing Bonnaroo > people post various things they heard on the podcast (please note I was taking a nap when this was uploaded so I’m probably not listening. Sorry!) > the words “downward spiral” gets said weirdly, something about a “residency”, and “Late Night sucks shit this year fuck you!” > 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 RooBus directly says the “residency” thing is referring to Shania Twain > before 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 immediately taking it back > there’s an ongoing debate on what the “residency” comment means. Is it someone who did a residency like in Las Vegas? Is it someone doing a residency at the festival? Who knows! > (I do but I’m not telling. XOXO gosshuck girl)
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“That was a VERY COOL story!!! An excellent production!! Billy Strings just resurrected the Western movie genre.😅😅 I hope to see more fun and interesting videos from Billy Strings and his friends in the future. Most impressed.”
Jerry doesn't get DakhaBrakha. "What's up with the hats?" Elaine is trying to hook up with Colin Stetson but he won't stop playing long enough to hold a conversation. George is wearing camo pants claiming it's the "Zorn look," but keeps getting shushed in the Tennessee when he tries to explain this to his neighbors. Kramer describes his favorite set of the weekend, but the rest of the gang determines that he listened to a faulty exhaust fan behind St. John's for six hours.
(I hate to call in reinforcements from another thread, but………….)
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Sorry but I can think of like 2-5 Extremely Nice people on this board I know personally (I’m not one of them, I honestly thought myself getting slightly meaner in the recaps the last two weeks was a sign of seasonal depression or something), falcor is not one of them, and all of a sudden everyone wants to jump on when he dunks on someone else who was slightly mean to RooBus? Come the fuck on. > I didn’t listen to the podcast though so maybe it was good, maybe it wasn’t, Idk. > is the Alabama accent hot? (The only person on earth with a hot accent is the Italian guy on TikTok/Instagram who breeds beagle.) > Ginger Root does in fact sound closer to city pop than Vulfpeck, thank you very much! > High Water festival announces its lineup, bad news for people who wanted to see Lord Huron at Coachella > All Good festival is coming back soon! > St. Vincent is performing with glass beams! > Julie Baker & Torres inspire a new meme that lasts about 3 posts > some “jokes” about “formerly cancelled” artists > Oh shit! > The Bonnaroo presale is happening next week! > a brief discussion of who’s doing presale > Northlands Festival, which happens the same weekend as Bonnaroo, announces its lineup, includingg SCI, Cory Wong, Umprhrey’s moe., and…….. Eggy > Rock the South, whatever that is, announces its lineups > people continue to puzzle out the “residency” clue > ATTN: since apparently the C3 people look on this message board, I will only attend Bonnaroo if you book the Norwegian loop pedal dance-punk band Aiming for Enrike. If not, fuck you. > Download announces its lineup > sorry to all the Alcest fans > TAR spices things up by talking about how Chidos sucks but that goes nowhere > some more Kacey Musgraves jokes of varying quality > as maybe the 1st or 2nd or 3rd biggest Justice fan on the board, they do not deserve a post-What headliner slot > CRSSD announced their lineup today as well for those of you who just can’t get enough tech house in your life > Is Incubus playing? (Maybe) > yeah just a reiteration that Jelly Roll sucks shit > esteban tells us about his least favorite rock radio songs > some more mocks and light arguing over Justice, who are absolutely not headlining shit
I am definitely not one of the 3-5 nice people here, but also scroll through that individuals last like 20 posts. Big JonesJupiter vibes.
Yeah there was probably a better way of wording that, I was just feeling a little frustrated that, like, there were jokes implying supre was a rapist elsewhere last week but this is where the collective line got drawn.
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“Found out my dad passed away this morning. Nothing was wrong, he just didn't wake up. I took him to see LCD Soundsystem in 2010, it was the first time I saw him let loose and dance (to Drunk Girls I think). We shared tons of music, Sunday morning runs, afternoons reading Calvin and Hobbes together, and that won't happen again. It's gorgeous outside today, the coffee tastes the same. It's fucked to thing that despite what happened today, things will indeed just keep coming until the day it stops.”
Not a fan of the part where they sacrifice a virgin to the sun god mid set but it’s such a rewarding experience to sing “All My Friends” with everyone you know.
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We wake up this morning with the day by day Primavera lineup. I wish I was hot enough to be featured on their poster. > Is LCD Soundsystem good? (Yeah) > RooBus says the lineup isn’t done yet > memories of late additions, something that Bonnaroo used to do > RooBus says the people who do Coachella “skin endangered panthers alive for their pelts” > would it be better if Bonnaroo adopted Coachella’s style? (Well, at this point lol…) > Rod Stewart!? > “Above the Trees”’s tour gets announced today, leaving me confused about why a melodic hardcore band from British Columbia is going to be booked for Bonnaroo until I realize it’s a typo for “Of the Trees”. > M3F drops their lineup, and it’s like a laser beam shooting directly into my skull. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival consider yourself on thin fucking ice > manders is one of the first person to request Soulwax/2manydjs/Despacio at Bonnaroo, betraying his Belgianness for the first time in a while > (he’s right though) > John Summit is playing with an orchestra now. isn’t it kind of weird when you hear orchestral house music clips and it sounds close to drone music in its weird way? > would My Chemical Romance headline Bonnaroo? (Yeah probably. They need space since people go NUTS at those shows. I can’t even imagine what an MCR Bonnaroo pit would be like) > manders posts an interesting quote from Download festival about them having Sleep Token headline. But if they really wanted to take “the bull by the horns”, they would’ve let Alcest headline. Just imo > deegle keeps teasing………..something > Canadian Andrew WK posts a very well done mock > and WHOA! here comes RooBus finally coming out and saying Luke Combs is happening > finally! > Finally! > discussions on the potential business strategy of having Luke Combs headline > RooBus also says he thinks the headliners are average but the top lines are otherwise good. > based on his previous comments I’m going to take that as meaning Confidence Man is headlining Friday. Let’s go!
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(Hey! We finally got him!)
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“Absolutely love this ..heard it at a football match and had to shazam it as never heard it before ..Greetings from the UK”
[Author’s Note: I picked this comment since it was from 3 weeks ago. We’ve been arguing about Luke Combs for about two weeks or so now and it’s funny to think about how juuuuuuuuust before that there was a random guy watching soccer in England who was like “oh shit this song slaps what is it”]
Luke Combs - Jack Johnson Luke Bryan- Jack White Zach Bryan- Jack Black Zac Brown Band- The Black Keys
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Ok uhhhh. We have a lot to talk about > But first we start out with bellyaching about Luke Combs, Famed Racist > I know there’s a lot of back and forth on this but tbh I see both sides: it’s hard not to look back on the glory days of Bonnaroo’s earlier lineups which did really feature a lot more genuinely weird and distinct bookings (not in the headliners, but come on, you all know this is the only mainstream festival that used to book multiple doom metal bands on a single day) and wish they went back to that, even with their country bookings. But also the festival calculus has changed, and if we’re getting a huge current country artist, well, Luke Combs is certainly better than most. > stringybill uses the word “trustafarian” in two separate posts 😑 > RooBus confirms at least one artist out of Glass Animals/KGLW/Tyler/Vampire/Young Thug will be on the lineup next year. I hope it’s Thugger doing a DARE program > Goose said they were playing All Good festival last night, making them in play for Bonnaroo > get ready for MJ Lenderman to headline both the Green River Festival and Bonnaroo > RooBus says one headliner is going to be a rock band, and maybe one of five he lists > Uh oh! cincnnasti says Phish isn’t a rock band > postjack responds > cincy responds by clarifying it needs to be harder (😏) > who ruined Bonnaroo 2016? (Judd Apatow. Next!) > Welcome to Rockville announced the rest of its lineup, for all the Chiodos fans out there > xfinitypass posts a long list of artists I’m not going to read right now. I realize this is deeply ironic for someone who just posted a long list of artists in the Coachella thread at 1AM yesterday but I posted in that in Eurostile Bold. Them’s the breaks > Where did Nine Inch Nails come from? (Sure, I haven’t posted this yet) Where did Luke Combs come from (ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god) > RooBus says he thinks the rock headliner might be Metallica in spite of the fact they’re playing two dates in Nashville in May > hmm > what if the rock headliner was Hozier? Or The Cure? Or my brother, who I wish would come back from the army > 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨oh shit oh fuck infinitypass came back!!! > to give us a cryptic ass clue that we’re going to spend the rest of the day debating. In fact, because I desperately need a paragraph break, here it is in its entirety:
Would be a really fun time for infinitypass to tell us who our rock headliner is
\m/ \m/
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Wow. Inspiring > Naturally, this inspires a lot of reactions, most of which are incoherent > why do people think King Gizz is playing Bonnaroo? (OH! my! GOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!) > RooBus says “I think it’s more than safe to count on Glass Animals” but they won’t headline. Huge news for fans of Minecraft fanfiction > he also says they were very close to making the jump to headliner, which probably isn’t true since their newest album didn’t have a Minecraft fanfiction behind it > people read too much or not enough into the infinitypass post depending on how you look at it > oh Jack White is out btw > but Dwight Yoakam might be in? Sure > ok by this point the momentum is kind of petering out in the thread > what if Jack White and Metallica both headlined? What if George Strait headlined? > These two things are unrelated in every way but neither is happening so it’s cool > The pendulum might be swinging too far in favor of Luke Combs at this point. We need a real, non-divisive country act, like the uhhhh Estonian National Male Choir
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“Fire!!! Takes me all the way back to '79.... I was born 1980”
Esteban will *not* be seeing Luke Combs, but he *will* be taking strange pills off the ground while watching Hailu Mergia at 1PM > panda makes a mock poster > people are apparently really passionate about George Clanton > All Good Now announced its lineup, and you’re going to be shocked to learn it’s all jam bands and bluegrass > yeah I was shocked by how well the MCR tour sold today lmao. Still going to hold out for a reduced price Stubhub ticket but I’m not confident about that > 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 RooBus confirms Goose at the bottom of page 182 > by posting a picture of a Goose that appears a LOT on page 183 > naturally this gets the people going > there’s been a few good confirmations lately so people decide to temper their expectations by listing artists they don’t like > RooBus really, really believes in his Metallica headlining theory. > 🚨 ORANGE ALERT 🚨deegle says John Summit is #2 on his day > it’s ironic that John Summit is #2, because > what other headliner combos are bigger than Luke Combs/Metallica? (How about freaking PEARL JAM and LCD SOUNDSYSTEM? 😂😂) > pinkstickynote gets deep into the mechanics of how the shruggie emoji is putting up the rock hands > I still don’t know what it means though lol > meanwhile, everyone’s ability to post on mobile craps out simultaneously, forcing everyone to go full “I am report EVERYBODY ~ so you best behavior ~” > what if Jungle did a DJ set at Bonnaroo? (Sure!) > awful news: Sean Kingston will not be headlining Bonnaroo 2025 > 🚨 YELLOW ALERT 🚨 > (this is a Bush-era terrorism advisory colors joke. Thanks) > deegle’s got doubts he knows the full top 8 after all > esteban and panda fight each other over Midtallica > I’ve done some thinking myself and I actually think the rock band that’s going to be headlining Bonnaroo this year is eclectic American indie band tune-yards. Crazy choice but I gotta respect them for swinging for the fences. See you on Sunday!
Pages Spanned: 188-193 Insider: No Infinitypass: No Other reputable insiders: Yes Drake: No Entertainment Value: 7 Educational Value: 9 (Avril Lavigne confirmed. Honestly two very shockingly high scores for a November weekend) A song from a random artist someone mentioned :
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“My dad, a 3rd generation Japanese American who grew up around East LA, raised me on good soul and Chicano oldies and I've been increasingly appreciating those classics the past few years. Malo- Suavecito, Rosie and the Originals- Angel Baby, etc. Now I'm now getting to share with him all this amazing neo-soul and chicano oldie style contemporary music, full circle. Feels good ”
[Author’s Note: Because of the video’s content, there is a lot of Chicano nostalgia in these comments. It was pretty fun to read through honestly.]
As a reminder, you can view the full playlist of Songs From a Random Artist Someone Mentioned here:
Remember the Projekt Revolution tours? > (Funny enough recently about once a year or so I look up old Warped Tour poster ads I used to remember seeing in Mad magazine in the mid-aughts. At that time since I really did not know anything about those bands, I thought “what is this?”. Now, I think “what was that?”) > RooBus isn’t totally confident in Metallica, but I don’t blame him for wanting it to happen > people discuss various soul/funk bands they want to see > xfinitypass posts an AI-generated fake poster that is remarkable in the symmetry of its design, its bizarre combinations of headliner guesses and “& the Lizard Wizard”, and for apparently making Bonnaroo look like it takes place at a Tibetan Buddhist temple > thank you FH for acknowledging my “tune-yards is headlining Bonnaroo next year” confirmation. > is Miley Cyrus playing? (Maybe) > 🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 remeard posted a semi-confirmation that Avril Lavigne is in on Reddit, with “several sources indicating she has been booked” > (I was not one of the several sources. I just know that tune-yards is headlining next year and nothing else) > a Reddit rando has allegedly confirmed Natasha Bedingfield, which is lightly hilarious > MCR probably isn’t happening > Curtis Harding! > manders mock > should Bonnaroo book FIDLAR? (Maybe! I actually was going to make a joke about never seeing them but apparently I did in 2016. Huh!) > xfinitypass calls Kacey Musgraves “gay” in a mock > you guys heard of this Tommy Richman guy? (As one of the last 10 people on earth who regularly listens to Top 40 radio, they play a lot of these, uh, for lack of a better word, disposable TikTok hits now and this one comes up a lot. I really have no opinion on it. It’s weird. He could be a huge pop superstar or do absolutely nothing. Maybe artist development really is a thing of the past now?) > Esteban lists a bunch of artists he likes > the discussion kind of fizzles out around here. But it feels like a lot of the puzzle pieces are laid out on the table now and as we’re filling out the edges we’ll be getting more of the center soon. Hope it’s exciting!
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“This one is in my top ten of best dancefestival songs and i am 51 years old i can tell you i've heard a lot. but this one is special!”
Is Olivia Rodrigo rock? (Well she’s the closest thing to a monocultural rock artist you’re going to get for a long while at least lol) > This year Bonnaroo is going to be SIX NIGHTS of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard > well Roo Clues are probably coming soon, that’s something to look forward to > as I’m sitting here writing this it really looks Coachella is actually announcing soon, which is insane, but not as insane as > Rod Stewart not playing Bonnaroo this year!!! What the hell > The Shit Cheese Incident announced their Cave shows for those of you who like spelunking and jam music > Belgian Goose isn’t playing this > unless manders has something to say about it! > a discussion on the inherent Americanness of jam bands > The What Podcast said “there’s a glaring mistake on most of these mock lineups” (no Confidence Man) but RooBus says most of the mocks are pretty accurate > Justice! > sang is going to put himself on his own top 100 live drummers list when he finally joins Primus > Childish Gambino: is he in? Is he out? Is he in is he out? It’s a party at my house, it’s a beautiful crowd > The stringybill vs. Goose fight continues > Glass Animals is semi confirmed, Hozier is now confirmed. I don’t even know what alert to put for this. A 🇮🇪 GREEN WHITE ORANGE ALERT 🇮🇪 ?
This is not looking like a Bonnaroo I want to attend. Goose and King Gizzard are great. But is that worth a thousand? Gonna take some combination of Tipper, Ice Cube, Polyphia and crazy midcard shit to make that trip. I’ve never not seen all 4 headliners. And I would see Gambino again. But I quit going to ACL after 2018 when they changed their formula. :/
> Rock the South, whatever that is, announces its lineups > people continue to puzzle out the “residency” clue > ATTN: since apparently the C3 people look on this message board, I will only attend Bonnaroo if you book the Norwegian loop pedal dance-punk band Aiming for Enrike. If not, fuck you. > Download announces its lineup > sorry to all the Alcest fans > TAR spices things up by talking about how Chidos sucks but that goes nowhere > some more Kacey Musgraves jokes of varying quality > as maybe the 1st or 2nd or 3rd biggest Justice fan on the board, they do not deserve a post-What headliner slot > CRSSD announced their lineup today as well for those of you who just can’t get enough tech house in your life > Is Incubus playing? (Maybe) > yeah just a reiteration that Jelly Roll sucks shit > esteban tells us about his least favorite rock radio songs > some more mocks and light arguing over Justice, who are absolutely not headlining shit
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