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After a horribly awkward and annoying hour of “Weird Al” Yankovic, the Bonnaroo 2013 lineup has been announced via a live stream.

Today, SnowBall made its final announcements of artists on the lineup for the third annual music festival.

There aren’t many bands out there that can cover the Gun Club and avoid sounding trite or phony. Japandroids – with immense energy – does it well. The band closed its most recent album, “Celebration Rock,” and a shit-hot 90-minute set with a cover of the totem, “For Love of Ivy” Sunday night at the Bluebird.

Seven selections for the unofficial song of the summer for 2012 featuring Nicki Minaj, the Walkmen, Santigold, Usher, Japandroids, Dave Matthews Band and My Darkest Days

Japandroids at the Larimer Lounge on 6/19/12. Photos and review of the concert.

Japandroids’ “Celebration Rock” follows a storied history of buzz band ebb and flow

The Walkmen waltzes and glides through a Sunday set at the Fox Theatre

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[insertReverbPhoto id="79933" photo="8"] Japandroids — neither robots nor Japanese. Discuss. Photo by Joe McCabe. From the first time I saw the name of the duo, I envisioned Japandroids as something closer to the hulking, giant mechanoids from late ‘70s Japanimation than a couple of garage-born auteurs from British Columbia. Now that I’ve seen them, I feel the image is accurate, at least in sound and fury, though the actual visage may not be. View a full photo gallery of this concert here.