Briefly: Oysterhead, Lou Reed, Lollapalooza, Willie Nelson
Oysterhead --an occasional collaboration of ex-Phish frontman/guitarist Trey Anastasio , Primus bassist Les Claypool and ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland--have joined the bill of this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
Claypool will also play his own set during the festival, scheduled for June 16-18 in Manchester, TN. Other recent additions to the bill--which is topped by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and Radiohead--include Umphrey's McGee and Disco Biscuits.
Lou Reed wasn't able to perform two planned concerts--Saturday (2/11) at the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY, and Monday (2/13) at New York City's Crowbar--due to an undisclosed illness, according to his website.
As it did last year, the once-traveling music-festival Lollapalooza will return this summer for a single engagement at Chicago's Grant Park.
The event is scheduled for Aug. 4-6--up from two days last year--and will feature 130 bands on eight stages, organizers announced Tuesday (2/14).
Organizers haven't unveiled ticket on-sale information or any of the acts scheduled to perform, but the bill is rumored to include the new incarnation of Chicago-based Smashing Pumpkins.
The new Willie Nelson digital single "Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)"--a song that's especially timely on the heels of the Oscar-nominated film "Brokeback Mountain"--debuted Tuesday (2/14) morning on Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio program.
Nelson recorded the song--which was written in 1981 by Texas-born musician/songwriter Ned Sublette--last year during an iTunes Originals session at his Perdenales, TX, studio.
The song is available for download exclusively at the iTunes Music Store.
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New Releases, July 8: Beck, Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis, The Melvins [July 2008]
Festival Guide: Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL [June 2008]
Festival Guide: Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI [June 2008]
Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis Play The Blues [June 2008]
2008 Pitchfork Music Festival Photos
Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" tour
The Duke Spirit on stage and in the studio
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks
Metallica at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA
R.E.M. at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA
Herbie Hancock at the Sonoma Jazz Festival
Brad Paisley, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler
Dengue Fever at The Independent, San Francisco, CA

