Bonnaroo 2012 | Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead among headliners at Tennessee music event

The Tennessean

February 14, 2012

Bonnaroo 2012 | Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead among headliners at Tennessee music event
Ed O'Brien of Radiohead performs at Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, Ind. They’ll join Red Hot Chili Peppers at Bonnaroo.
Karen Elson helps kick off Bonnaroo 2011 Jack White looks on as his soon-to-be-ex-wife Karen Elson performs Best Coast lead singer Bethany Cosentino Wavves frontman Nathan Williams (right) and guitarist Stephen Pope The Walkmen's frontman Hamilton Leithauser

Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish will headline the 11th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., June 7-10, 2012.

The alt-rock giants lead a wide-ranging lineup that also features recent Grammy winner Bon Iver, the reunited Beach Boys, electronic music sensation Skrillex, rapper/actor Ludacris, Americana stars the Avett Brothers and indie-pop favorites the Shins, Foster the People and Feist, among other notable names in hip-hop, hard rock, folk and many, many other genres.

Among the Middle Tennessee names included: The Civil Wars, Ben Folds Five and Moon Taxi, plus more to come via the Road to Bonnaroo contest.

Tickets for Bonnaroo go on sale on this Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 11 a.m. central exclusively at bonnaroo.com.

The line-up so far

Radiohead

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Phish

Bon Iver

The Beach Boys Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks

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

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