Bonnaroo 2012: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Beach Boys headline

Radiohead will headline the 2012 edition of Bonnaroo. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)
Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish will headline this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the annual mega-festival in Tennessee that draws nearly 100,000 music fans each summer.
Other high profile acts inclue the reunited Beach Boys and recent Grammy winners Bon Iver and Skrillex. The Shins, Foster the People, the Roots, Alice Cooper, Mac Miller, Tune-Yards, St. Vincent, Bad Brains, Kurt Vile, Kendrick Lamar, Yelawolf , Black Star, SOJA, Gary Glark Jr., SBTRKT, Feist and dozensmore. See the full lineup at the Bonnaroo Web site.
Tickets for the June 7-10 festival go on sale Saturday, in case you’re considering making the journey to Manchester, Tenn. How does this batch of bands compare to Coachella’s lineup? And does it contain hints of who might appear at our local Virgin Mobile FreeFest? Last year’s FreeFest headliners, Radiohead; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Phish; Beach Boys; Skrillex; Bon Iver, also played at Bonnaroo. Put your detective’s hat on.
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Madonna adds second D.C. show; Whitney Houston memorial planned in Newark

D.C. will get a double dose of the Material Girl. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)-
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has added a second D.C. show to her fall tour after her first Verizon Center show sold out. Tickets for the Sept. 24 show will go on sale Feb. 21 at 10 a.m.
- There will be a two-day memorial honoring Whitney Houston at the Prudential Center in her native Newark. Exact dates and times will be determined later today. D.C. radio personality Donnie Simpson will be chatting about Simpson on washingtonpost.com at 10 a.m. today.
- We spent much of yesterday trying to make sense of Nicki Minaj’s performance at the Grammys on Sunday. In very unsurprising news, the Catholic League took issue with it.
- Here’s one — Shakira claims she was attacked by a sea lion and her brother saved her life.
- In today’s Post: a live review of Brooklyn’s Your 33 Black Angels at the Velvet Lounge. Plus review of new albums by I-Octane , Tennis and TriBeCaStan .
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Grammy Awards 2012: Performances and red carpet (Video)
The 2012 Grammy Awards show will be remembered for its performances, which some say brought out the best and the worst of the music industry — the best being Jennifer Hudson’s widely praised tribute to Whitney Houston, and the worst being Nicki Minaj’s on-stage exorcism orgy, now condemned by the Catholic League. Those acts, and many others, contributed to this year’s ceremony becoming the second most-watched Grammy Awards in history.
Take a look some performances and memorable Grammy moments in the videos below:
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Grammys 2012: The Last Exorcism of Nicki Minaj: What went wrong (and what almost went right)
Did Nicki Minaj ruin her career at last night’s Grammys, or transform herself from Rapper Barbie into a Lady Gaga-style artiste? A little of both, we're guessing. But mostly the former. We've run down what was awful, and what was great, about Minaj's unforgettable (trust us, we've tried) performance last night:

Nicki Minaj, ascending to a higher plane of some sort. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
It tried too hard to be a career game-changer.
Sometimes it only takes one jaw-dropping set piece to transform an already-famous diva into a worldwide superstar. For Madonna, it was her garter-belts-and-wedding-cake performance of "Like a Virgin" at the MTV Awards. For Lady Gaga, it was her super-stylized, blood-soaked version of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 VMAs. Minaj's performance last night was meant to be transformational, but this is something audiences need to realize for themselves, after hours of snarking about it on Twitter.
It tried too hard to be a tweetable moment.
Between the fire, the brimstone, the ceiling crawl and the thinly veiled sex acts between dancing religious figures (were they Popes? High-ranking Anglican Bishops? We just don't know), Minaj pushed every culture war button she could, but trying to be provocative is different than actually being provocative. As she must surely have prayed would happen, Catholic League President Bill Donohue even released a statement today asking if Minaj was possessed ("surely an open question," he concluded. Who could argue?).
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Bon Iver, and other moments in Grammy Award rejection

“Well, if you insist.” Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon begrudgingly accepts the award for Best New Artist. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)When Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon gave his now-infamous, "I'll take your award but I won't like it" speech last night, it wasn't the first time a Grammy recipient went all Sacheen Littlefeather at the podium, though none have managed Vernon's particular combination of fumbling Midwestern politeness and hipster disdain.
Most artists who feel conflicted about the Grammys don't show up at all, though some make more of a public point of this than others. In the spirit of Vernon's semi-rejection, we've rounded up five more surly, super awkward instances of Grammy rejection, both on and off the stage.
This was at the height of the band’s mid-'90s, We Are Conflicted About Fame period. Eddie Vedder famously says, "I don't think this means anything," before accepting the award anyway, saying his father would have liked it.
Sinead O'Connor, 1991
O'Connor won several awards, including Record of the Year in 1991, but boycotted the ceremony because of concerns about "commercialization." This was a big deal, back in the day: No artist before or since has made such an explicit point of not showing up for her win.
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