MBV, Breeders, Spoon, CSS, Go! Team Do Fuji Rock

With Jamie Lidell, Futureheads, Gossip, Neon Neon, Sparks, Lee "Scratch" Perry
MBV, Breeders, Spoon, CSS, Go! Team Do Fuji Rock

From its "Field of Heaven" stage to the nearby "Palace of Wonder", Japan's Fuji Rock Festival sounds like the stuff of daydreams. And this year's bill for Fuji Rock, taking place at Niigata, Japan's Naeba Ski Resort the weekend of July 25-27, is a fittingly heady mix: My Bloody Valentine, the Breeders, Spoon, Underworld, CSS, Jamie Lidell, the Go! Team, Gossip, Neon Neon, Bettye LaVette, Sparks, Ian Brown, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Primal Scream, the Futureheads, Switch, DJ Mehdi, Erol Alkan, Sparks, the Cribs, Kasabian, Midnight Juggernauts, Ozomatli, Gogol Bordello, Mystery Jets, Hard-Fi, the Death Set, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Princess Superstar, Galactic with Chali 2na and Boots Riley of the Coup, Richie Hawtin, Foals, Paul Van Dyk, Travis, the Rascals, Mice Parade, Kate Nash, and the Music.

What's more, Bootsy Collins will pay tribute to his former boss James Brown, up there in the funky fields of heaven himself.

Posted by Paul Thompson on Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:00am