Here’s what we know: The dates of the mystery festival are June 30-July 3 and it’s being held at the Double JJ Ranch. This is leading to much speculation that this is the return of Rothbury as it’s the same 4th of July weekend and the same location.

Rothbury ran from 2008-2009. Despite its popularity, organizers decided not to hold it 2010 and told fans that the festival would return in 2011.

So what’s Electric Forest going to be? A rerun of Rothbury, an electronic festival, or something completely new? Leave your thoughts below.

Those tickets just went so damn fast. The lineup was only announced a week ago before music hungry fans scooped up all four-day and single passes. Sasquatch reported “sold out” status on Valentine’s Day.

A quick glance at the Seattle area Craigslist already has scalpers trying to sell single day tickets for $225. Bastards.

The Flaming Lips “She Don’t Use Jelly”

The Prodigy “Firestarter”

Jonsi “Boy Lilikoi

Delphic “Counterpoint”

Cold Cave “Life Magazine”
Thursday Sept 9th @ the Holocene @ 11:55pm

The BellRays “Infection”
Thursday Sept 9th @ the Ash St. Saloon @ 11:55pm

Unnatural Helpers “She Was Your Girlfriend”
Saturday Sept 11th @ Ash St Saloon @ 10pm

Black Lips “Drugs”
Friday Sept 10th @ Nike Sportswear Stage at the Wonder Ballroom @ 7pm

Major Lazer “Hold The Line”
Thursday Sept 9th @ Roseland Theatre @ 11pm

Passion Pit- Sleepyhead
V-Stage
Hylands Park Saturday, Weston Park Sunday

Kasabian – Fire
V-Stage
Weston Park Saturday, Hylands Park Sunday

Plan B – She Said
4 Music Stage
Weston Park Saturday, Hylands Park Sunday

Eels – Novocaine For The Soul
4 Music Stage
Weston Park Saturday, Hylands Park Sunday

Tricky – Evolution Revolution Love
Virgin Media Union
Hylands Park Saturday, Weston Park Sunday

Early bird ticketing has been extended until to September 10 to give fans of all the recent additions to the lineup – Yonder, Nathan Moore, Blue Turtle Seduction, New Fangled Wasteland – a chance to get discounted tickets. Onsite camping at Evergreen Lodge is still available as well. Early bird tickets are $175.

2010 Las Tortugas Festival: Dance of the Dead V Lineup
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Track List

The Hot Rats – Big Sky

We Have Band – Honeytrap

Sunshine Underground – In Your Arms

Hadouken – Turn The Lights Out

Hadouken – Mic Check (L’amour La Morgue Edition)

Noah and the Whale – Blues Skies (YACHT remix)

Paul White – Alien Nature

Grizzly Bear – Cheerleader

Nathan Fake – Narrier

Dananananykroyd – Black Wax

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LINE UP 2010 – MAIN STAGE

Friday 25 June

• PEARL JAM 20:00 – 22:15
• BEN HARPER & RELENTLESS7 18:30 – 19:30
• THE HIVES 17:30 – 18:10
• THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM 16:40 – 17:10
• ROBERT FRANCIS 16:00 – 16:25

Saturday 26 June

• STEVIE WONDER 20:15 – 22:15
• JAMIROQUAI 18:30 – 19:30
• JAMES MORRISON 17:00 – 18:00
• CORINNE BAILEY RAE 15:55 – 16:40
• MARY MARY 14:50 – 15:35
• MICKI FREE AMERICAN HORSE 13:45 – 14:30

Sunday 27 June

• PAUL MCCARTNEY 19:30 – 22:15
• CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH 17:50 – 18:50
• CROWDED HOUSE 16:25 – 17:25
• ELVIS COSTELLO 15:10 – 16:00
• JOSHUA RADIN 14:20 – 14:50
• MORE THAN ME 13:45 – 14:05

LINE UP 2010 – PEPSI MAX STAGE

Friday 25 June

• GOMEZ 19:15 – 20:00
• FUNERAL PARTY 18:20 – 18:55
• CHIEF 17:30 – 18:00
• EXPATRIATE 16:40 – 17:10
• PAUL THOMAS SAUNDERS 16:00 – 16:25

Saturday 26 June

• MELISSA ETHERIDGE 19:10 – 20:00
• ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO 18:00 – 18:45
• FLORENCE RAWLINGS 17:00 – 17:40
• ROX 16:15 – 16:45
• RUMER 15:30 – 16:00
• DIANE BIRCH 14:45 – 15:15
• MARIA MENA 14:00 – 14:30

Sunday 27 June

• THE BREAKERS 19:00 – 19:45
• COCKTAIL SLIPPERS 19:00 – 19:45
• THE LEN PRICE 3 19:00 – 19:45
• THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE 18:00 – 18:30
• TIFFANY PAGE 17:00 – 17:40
• LISSIE 16:15 – 16:45
• THE CORONAS 15:30 – 16:00
• DELTA MAID 14:45 – 15:15
• JOE ECHO 14:00 – 14:30

LINE UP 2010 – BANDSTAND

Friday 25 June

• LEAH MASON 19:00 – 19:30
• MICHAEL KIWANUKA 18:00 – 18:30
• JAPANESE VOYEURS 17:00 – 17:30
• CHAKRAS 16:00 – 16:30

Saturday 26 June

• MY SAD CAPTAINS 19:00 – 19:30
• LONE WOLF 18:00 – 18:30
• MOUNTAIN MAN 17:00 – 17:30
• SUMMER CAMP 16:00 – 16:30
• ZUN ZUN EGUI 15:00 – 15:30

Sunday 27 June

• THE MORNING BENDERS 19:00 – 19:30
• PEARLY GATE MUSIC 18:00 – 18:30
• HERE WE GO MAGIC 17:00 – 17:30
• JOHN GRANT 16:00 – 16:30
• BEACH HOUSE 15:00 – 15:30

The Voodoo Experience takes place over Halloween weekend in New Orleans. Should be a blast. We’ll keep you up to date with our 2010 Voodoo Experience Festival Guide.

It was a great day to be in Alabama, too, as Hank Williams Jr. kicked off his Friday night show to a sea of sunburned faces. Wearing an Alabama ball cap, he took the crowd on a journey through his life and music. He treated his audience to an extended set that included “If Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Dixie” and “Kaw-Liga” before recruiting Johnson and Tritt to join him for rowdy rendition of “Family Tradition” to wrap up his show. [Read the rest of the review...]

The Enterprise Ledger

The final figures from all law enforcement agencies are still being compiled, but preliminary indications are that 119 people were released on bond after being arrested for various offenses during Bama Jam. [Read the rest of the review...]

The Mobile Press Register [PHOTO GALLERY]

(Doug Bruce/Independent BW Photographer)

The Birmingham News [VIDEO]

Bama Jam Thursday night

Spin Magazine

If that island in Lost ever played host to a music festival, it might turn out something like Sasquatch. As one sits and watches bands from a perch on an unnaturally stunning rock face, overlooking the Columbia River Gorge, it’s as if nothing exists between yourself and the edge of the universe but whatever music’s emanating from that glowing chasm of a main stage. [Read the rest of the review...]

Oregon Live

If there’s a greater beauty than Zooey Deschanel and Portland’s M. Ward singing lullabies to love in the desert rain, I’m not sure my heart can handle it. A perfect mix of the duo’s two albums, the set was a kind sabbatical between the hard jams of Drive-By Truckers and Band of Horses on Memorial.[Read the rest of the review]

OPB News

Each day this Memorial Day weekend, 25,000 music fans filled the Gorge Amphitheater in central Washington. The festival is quickly becoming famous around the country for its ability to attract eclectic, below-the-radar acts. Correspondent Chantal Anderson went to see what Sasquatch is all about.[Read the rest of the review...]

Weekly Volcano

Stephen Malkmus – who was either a little drunk or more aloof AND COOLER THAN FUCKING EVER – stopped songs on at least two occasions, cussing and apologizing to the crowd in the process. A rare old man standing next to me – in the sea of youth that is Sasquatch! – got visibly frustrated, yelling “Come on!” the second time Malkmus halted. Most in the crowd, however, just felt sorry for Pavement. Something tells me that’s not how they planned it.[Read the rest of the review...]

BeatCrave

To end our retro night (flashing back with Pavement and Public Enemy), we went to see one more spectacular set by Massive Attack. As one of the pioneers of trip-hop, the main stage’s atmosphere was nothing less than simultaneously epic and somber. This is what soothing rock music that touches on R&B should sound like.[Read the rest of the review...]

April 24th Chicago Event to Stage Four “Quarters” of Music
Using Innovative Technology and Interactive, Fan-Driven Cues

The forward-thinking band Umphrey’s McGee will carve out new terrain in musical interactivity with their fans at the first “UMBowl,” an unprecedented 4-quarter evening-long concert on Saturday, April 24th, at Lincoln Hall in the group’s hometown of Chicago.

Umphrey’s, which has long forged a close bond with its national fan base through technological innovation, will explore fresh frontiers in the five-hour event, styled to emulate a football game with four “quarters” of unique musical performances that will actually be generated by audience input. Half the night’s music will be determined by text messaging on “gameday” itself.

The first quarter (Q1) will be an acoustic set entirely chosen by attendees; ticket holders will receive ballots and cast votes on the songs to be performed. Q2 will be a wholly improvised performance driven by bi-directional texting, sifted and delivered by “offensive coordinator” (and longtime Umphrey’s sound caresser) Kevin Browning to the band, which will then use the audience input to construct their jams. Q3 will be an all-request segment, with songs again determined by pre-balloting from the audience members. Fans will be able to vote not just on song selection but actually how those songs are arranged and varied from their original form. In Q4, the live audience will actually act as the group’s quarterback, “calling audibles” to direct the course of a free-flowing set via text messages sent to Browning in response to choices projected on an in-house screen.

The text-messaging element of UMBowl, powered by Mozes, was first employed by Umphrey’s McGee at their Stew Art (or “S2”) series, launched in fall 2009. Hosted as freestanding events before Umphrey’s shows in select tour markets, the series is a crowd-sourced improvisation experiment, in which all the music performed by the group on stage is entirely directed by S2 audience members. Sold-out crowds of 50 fans submit their ideas by texting descriptive words, phrases, and pop culture references to the Umphrey’s mobile interface, which are then interpreted by the band.

Umphrey’s McGee had previously taken new approaches to delivering their music to the fans. Before their most recent studio recording, Mantis, was released in January 2009, the collection was made available for pre-order in an interesting way. The more Mantis pre-orders were received, the more free bonus content was received. Fans “unlocked” levels of content by getting more of their friends to pre-order the album.

The band was also among the first group of performers to offer songs at Rock Band Network. The much buzzed-about video game platform works with Xbox video game systems, and allows bands to offer fans a way to dig into their favorite group’s music in ways they have never been able to before.

UMBowl tickets went on sale last Friday and sold out in just minutes.

For the many out-of-town fans attending UMBowl, the band, together with long-standing travel partners CID Entertainment, offered travel packages for the event. Included in each package are tickets toUMBowl, luxury accommodations at the new Hotel Palomar in downtown Chicago, a drink package for the pre-party at the Umphrey’s hometown hang The Store, a personalized UMBowl jersey, gameday transportation, and more. For further information, go to: www.cidentertainment.com/home/umbowl2010.php

I’m heading out to San Francisco for Outside Lands. Three days of music in Golden Gate Park during August 28-30. Check out the MFJ Festival Guide for the full lineup and ticket info. Here are the acts that are on my “must-see” list.

1.Autolux:Fans of Autolux have something to look forward to. It’s been a long wait for the band’s second album, Transit Transit, which is due later this year. Autolux is known for their alternative shoegazing (lots of pedals and artsy stuff) sound. Lush, experimental songs during their set will be as entertaining to watch as to hear.Watch Autolux tap their toes on Friday August 28^th at 1pm on the Lands End Stage on Polo Field.

2.Built to Spill:You will not see a manlier beard on any man then on Doug Martsch.  From punk to indie rock, lead vocalist/ guitarist, Doug Martsch has toured the world working with enough talented artists to provide records for two bands, Treepeople and today’s Built to Spill. The latter has been playing for over 15 years so that should guarantee a rocking good time!See Built to Spill on Friday August 28^th at 2:30pm on the Lands End Stage on Polo Field.

3.Portugal. the Man:If you know me, then you know I will be at this show. Lyrics and voices of the Gods entice you? Portugal. The Man may become your new favorite band. I LOVE THIS BAND! If you are looking to familiarize yourself with any of their music, then I recommend taking it back to the album, Waiter: ‘You Vultures!’.  Anything on that album will surely satisfy. Saturday August 29^th at 3:10 pm on the Panhandle Solar Stage on the Speedway Meadow.

4.Calexico:Who says there’s nothing good about Tucson, Arizona? I could go on for hours on why Tucson is so enticing , but I’ll stick to one thing:  awesome music including bands like Calexico.  If you like alternative rock and Latin influenced folk rock, then check these guys out. The band is named after the border town of Calexico, California and many of their lyrics play with illustrating the Arizona and Northern Mexican desert. Calexico will be playing on Sunday, August, 30^th at 3:55 pm on the Presidio Stage on the Lindley Meadow.