Check it out:

• (The Return of) Heady Links | Guitar Gods, Arcade Fire, and Bisco Roulette

• Podcast #053 – New Slide Guitar ‘Masters’

• LCD Soundsystem | 2007 Tour Dates

• Phish Friday | Island Tour Memories

• 2007 Green Apple Music Festival | Early Band Confirmations

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2007 Tour Dates

• Steve Jobs and the DRM debate

• The Slip on Conan O’Brien

• Summercamp gears up for 2007 with its familiar line-up (yep, moe. as the headliner)
• Gathering of the Vibes has its line-up and has re-located back to its original spot in Bridgeport, CT
• Justin also speculated about Bonnaroo headliners, with Pearl Jam as is prediction for a possible big headliner
• Hits from the Blog has at least one band confirmed for Bonnaroo: Cold War Kids (by the way, I literally just checked out a fantastic set by Cold War Kids over at NPR’s Live Concert Series)
• And the wikipedia entry for Bonnaroo also has John Butler Trio confirmed as well
• As long as we’re throwing out random speculation for Bonnaroo headliners, how about something more European and off-kilter as a follow-up to Radiohead….the Cure?

And in case you missed our previous festival news, we’ve also discussed info on Bonnaroo, 10KLF, Langerado, and Coachella.

Can you tell we’re already sick of the cold weather and indoor shows!?!?

• Wakarusa set its 2007 dates: June 7-10th, 2007 (in Lawrence KS) – photo by tyler >

It’ll be interesting to see if they stick with the jammier set, or make inroads into Indie rock territory, as Langerado and Bonnaroo have tended to do in recent years. Speaking of Bonnaroo..

• Bonnaroo also laid down its 2007 dates: June 14 – 17, 2007 (in Manchester, TN)

For fans confident that the festival and line-up will live up to its reputation, early-bird tickets go on sale Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10:00 AM (ET?)….but that’s before any artists have been announced. We’ll see what tricks the SuperFly folks have up their sleeves this year. Will they continue the festival’s more mainstream trend or head back to the hippie/jammy roots?

• 10K Lakes Festival announced its initial line-up.

As usual, lots of stalwarts of the jammier variety:

Bob Weir & RatDog
Trey Anastasio
Gov’t Mule
Umphrey’s McGee
moe.
Little Feat
Derek Trucks Band
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Trampled By Turtles
WookieFoot
Everyone Orchestra

…with another 50 odd bands yet TBA

As much as this type of line-up bores me with its focus on jam-rock and blues/funk, it would still be damn fun to see some sort of ultimate guitar wank-fest with the likes of Trey, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, and maybe some of the Umphrey’s or moe. guys. Also, kudos to Wookiefoot for the tongue-in-cheek dig on the hippy lingo…that name just cracks me up.

And just in case you missed it:

• Coachella expanded to a 3-day festival and added a country-tinged festival
• Langerado‘s line-up and late-night shows are set. This one is gearing up to be a great spring festival.

The shows are at nearby Ft. Lauderdale venues and include the following:

Thursday 3/8:

• Sound Tribe Sector 9 @ Revolution
• Tea Leaf Green and New Monsoon @ the Culture Room

Friday, 3/9:

• Disco Biscuits @ Revolution
• MOFRO @ the Culture Room

Saturday, 3/10:

• Michael Franti & Spearhead @ Revolution
• North Mississippi Allstars @ Culture Room

Sunday, 3/11:

• Perpetual Groove @ Culture Room

Tickets for both the festival and the late-night shows go on sale this Friday, 12/1 @ 10 AM at the Langerado site. A Spring-time festival in Florida is very tempting, hmmm…

• My Morning Jacket
• The New Pornographers
• The Hold Steady
• Cat Power
• The Dirty Blues Band
• Cut Chemist

Looks like my initial reaction that this festival had gone straight back to its jamband roots was a bit premature. Good to see them continuing to branch out, but will the “indie kids” take the bait? We’ll see.

Tickets go on-sale this Friday, 12/1 at 10am EST at Langerado’s site.

2007′s Langerado will be held March 9-11, at Markham Park, FL (near Ft. Lauderdale). Enough blather, here’s their initial line-up:

Widespread Panic
Trey Anastasio
moe.
Matisyahu
Bela Fleck & the Fleckstones
O.A.R.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Stephen Malkimus & the Jicks
Medeski, Martin, & Wood
The Disco Biscuits
Sound Tribe sector 9
Los Lobos
Taj Mahal
North Mississippi Allstars
The Greyboy Allstars
Toots and the Maytals
Blackalicious
Explosions in the Sky
Pepper
New Orleans Social Club
Soulive
Mofro
Perpetual Groove
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Yerba Buena
Tea Leaf Green
New Monsoon
The Mutaytor
Band of Horses
Four Tet
Paolo Nutini
Assembly of Dust
The Slip
Girl Talk
Toubab Krewe
Lotus
Apollo Sunshine
Si*Se
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Jake Shimabukuro
Kid beyond
Dubconscious
…and surely a bunch more to be added later

The email also explained that recordings from ALL of the festival’s performances will be available at LiveLollapalooza.com when the store officially launches on October 19th. I’m a bit bummed they went with iTunes instead of eMusic (or another download service that doesn’t use DRM), but I can live with it. One big thumbs up is that they’ll be offering downloads in both MP3 and the lossless FLAC format (for all you picky audiophiles out there).

Now, exactly which shows to grab is going to be a tough one. I can’t wait to hear that whole Broken Social Scene set, but I’d love to get down to that Disco Biscuits’ closer (“Caterpillar”), and then again I really dug Andrew Bird’s sound….Hmmm.

The Vegoose festival has announced this year’s line-up, and it looks like Superfly is continuing the festival trend of mixing several big rock acts with a variety of mid-size bands of the jam and indie set, sprinkled with some classic hip-hop. With the success of Langerado this past spring and Bonnaroo this summer, Vegoose is clearly hoping this type of mix bodes well for ticket sales. We’ll see how the jam kids and indie rock folks mix it up in Vegas, but LMM’s take is that it’s a pretty decent line-up…

Here’s the list so far (late-night shows are posted below):

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Widespread Panic
The Killers
Phil & Trey…
The Mars Volta
The Keller Williams Incident
The Black Crowes
Fiona Apple
The Raconteurs
Ben Folds
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
Medeski Martin & Wood w/ special guest Maceo Parker
The Roots
The Rhythm Devils feat. Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzman, Mike Gordon & Steve Kimock
G. Love & Special Sauce
Jurassic 5
Galactic
Praxis
Yonder Mountain String Band
Gomez
Built To Spill
Guster
Jim James of My Morning Jacket
Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Dr. Octagon aka Kool Keith
Band of Horses
Jamie Lidell
The Zutons
The Yard Dogs Road Show

Late night shows:

Friday Oct. 27th, 2006

• Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds @ MGM Grand Garden
• Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley @ The Joint – Hard Rock
• Keller Williams @ the House of Blues
• Trey Anastasio w/ Robert Randolph & The Family Band @ Orleans Arena

Saturday Oct. 28th, 2006

• Maceo Parker @ the House of Blues
• STS9 @The Joint – Hard Rock
• Phil & Trey @ Orleans Arena

Sunday Oct. 29th, 2006

• The String Cheese Incident @ Orleans Arena

Monday Oct. 30th, 2006

• Widespread Panic @ MGM Grand Garden

• AT&T Blueroom is streaming the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Sat. 4/29 – Sun 4/30).

• MSN’s got a stream for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Sun. webcasts on 4/30 and 5/7).

• AOL Music has a stream for Pearl Jam’s latest release that comes out May 2nd.

• Neil Young’s upcoming release “Living With War.”

• NPR’s “Song of the Day” column has a funky and soulful take on Radiohead’s “Morning Bell” (and if that strikes your fancy, you might also check out my post on another funky Radiohead cover and the artsy video that went with it).