Oregon Music News

The 2010 lineup for the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee is slowly trickling out on their MySpace but PDX rockers Blitzen Trapper are amped to be included alongside wicked collaborations from Daryl Hall & Chromeo, Damian Marley & Nas, and The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs performing “Dark Side of the Moon.”

Other highlights of the diverse lineup include:

The Avett Brothers
John Fogerty
Jeff Beck
Phoenix
Regina Spektor
Mayer Hawthorne & the County
Neon Indian
Dave Matthews Band
Jay-Z
GWAR
Kings of Leon
The Black Keys
Kris Kristofferson
LCD Soundsystem
Medeski Martin and Wood
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Ingrid Michaelson
The xx
Wale
Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers
Norah Jones
Bassnectar
OK Go
Monte Montgomery
Punch Brothers
Thievery Corporation
She & Him
Jimmy Cliff
Tokyo Police Club
Kid Cudi
Japandroids
Dr. Dog
Baaba Maal
Zac Brown Band
The National
John Prine
Dave Rawlings Machine
Local Natives
Dropkick Murphys
Manchester Orchestra
Jay Electronica
The Postelles
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Rebelution
Needtobreathe
Tenacious D
Jamey Johnson
They Might Be Giants
The Entrance Band
Lotus
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Clutch
Tori Amos
The Melvins
The Dodos
The Dead Weather
Rise Against
Deadmau5
Martin Sexton
Gaslight Anthem
Mumford & Sons
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Baroness
Julia Nunes
Here We Go Magic
Tinariwen
The Disco Biscuits
Diane Birch
Lucero
Isis
Miranda Lambert
Brandi Carlile
B.O.B.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Blues Teveler
The Temper Trap
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Weezer

…with more to be announced!!!

What are bass-heavy, blues rockin’ Ohioan boys doing hanging out with rap heavy weights?  Makin’ dollas, duh!

Garage rockers The Black Keys, who are known to saddle up with a banjo, have teamed up with hip-hop’s baddest, raddest, most bangin’ boys like Mos Def, Q-Tip, Pharoahe Monch, and Wu-Tangers RZA and Raekwon–even with a posthumous guest spot from ODB–all to pawn cars.

Blacked out Chevys, that is.  Oh baby, and it’s a Camaro–the Blakroc Chevy Camaro.

As if this can’t go any farther (oh, yes it can!), the car is exclusively available at Carl Black Chevrolet… only in the dirty south (Kennesaw, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee to be exact).  Whip comes complete with Blackroc logos on the interior and exterior, a USB port, and extra tinted windows (hopefully within the legal ORE limit).

Eleven artists collaborated (also including Jim Jones, Billy Danze, NOE, and R&B/soul singer Nicole Wray) with The Black Keys for eleven days in the studio to lay down eleven tracks.  The Blackroc album dropped on, you guessed, last Friday… Black Friday.

I’ll admit, the line-up is pretty stellar so I’ll let the tracks speak for themselves.  But seriously, who the F forgot to call Black Thought?

And while you’re at it, you might as well upgrade your navigation system to play DVDs so you can watch The Black Keys : Live At The Crystal Ballroom DVD.  Why not?