The Dave Matthews Band and Tool will headline Saint Paul’s River’s Edge Music Festival. The appearance will be Tool’s only U.S. appearance this year.

The festival also will feature more than 30 other artists playing on four stages on the city’s Harriet Island June 23-24. Other notable acts performing this year include the Flaming Lips, Brand New, Coheed & Cambria, Scissor Sisters, Kinky, Mexican Institute of Sound, Diplo and the Whigs. The event also will feature a slew of local artists like Polica, Motion City Soundtrack, Quietdrive and the Rope.

This will mark the inaugural year of the festival, which is presented by Live Nation and the City of Saint Paul, and a five-year agreement has been signed between the two presenters to keep the festival going for the foreseeable future.

“I’m excited to see the expansion of Live Nation in Saint Paul, bringing millions of dollars in economic vitality to the city and building Saint Paul’s reputation as a top spot for live music,” said Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman in a statement. “This new series builds on our years of success with Live Nation. I look forward to several years hosting this great music event at Harriet Island.”

Live Nation Co-President Mark Campana shared this enthusiasm.

“We are thrilled to bring the Twin Cities the festival it has long deserved, a reflection of the discriminating tastes of its music fans as well as the area’s reputation as a cultural leader,” Campana said. “We will be making the most of this beautiful site and its natural advantages to create an experience that truly reflects the community, creativity and culture of the area.”

Harriet Island is located just across the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis.

Even though this is the first year of the festival, Live Nation is already looking forward to expanding the event next year according to an interview with Campana in the Star Tribune. Next year he expects to have a second weekend of the festival dedicated to country music and a third day added to the rock festival.

The first acts that will appear at this year’s All Good Festival have been announced, and the list of artists includes headliners the Allman Brothers Band, the Flaming Lips and Phil Lesh & Friends. The event will be held July 19-22.

This year, which marks the 16^th anniversary of the festival, will take place in Thornville, Ohio at the Legend Valley Concert Venue & Campground, which was formerly known as the Buckeye Lake Music Center. Until this year, the festival was held in Masontown W. Va. Organizers say the new venue will provide concertgoers with better roads and faster processing than in previous years. As it has in the past, the festival will feature two main stages set up side by side, though no sets will overlap.

Of the other acts announced, many are associated with the Grateful Dead. Phil Lesh’s former Grateful Dead band mate Bob Weir will be playing a set with Bruce Hornsby, who also was briefly in the band in the early 1990s. Additionally, Dead drummer Mickey Hart will be playing a set with the Mickey Hart Band. Other big names include G. Love & Special Sauce, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Lotus, Galactic, Trampled by Turtles and SOJA.

In addition to the music, the area offers fans a place to camp, as well as RV hookups. Artesian food vendors will be on the grounds, which will also features craft vendors, bonfire pits, regional microbrews, drum circles and kids entertainment.

As with the majority of the lineup this year, most acts featured at the All Good Festival are jam bands and folk artists. At least 20 more artists are expected to be added to the lineup before the first show takes place. Before the festival was held in Masontown, it had been held in various places around the mid-Atlantic region.

Just when you thought the Flaming Lips couldn’t get any weirder, well just think again. Not too long ago the band released music inside of a fetus and gummy skull as well as collaborated with Lightning Bolt and Neon Bible. Currently, the band is hard at work on a song which is nearly as long as an eight hour day at work.

Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips frontman, on Twitter said that band has been hard at work recording a song that is six hours long. No other details have been released about it other than that the song is very long. However links to the song previews have been posted on TwitVid. Enjoy!

The Flaming Lips shows in the cemetery, which have been dubbed “Everyone You Know Some Day Will Die” are scheduled to run in Los Angeles on June 14 and 15. The name of the concerts is derived from lyrics in the group’s 2002 hit song “Do You Realize” which is also known to be Oklahoma’s official rock song.

Many famous people are buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, including actors, composers, singers, directors, writers, cinematographers, and musicians. The cemetery is where Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Jayne Mansfield, Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. DeMille, and Rudolph Valentino are all buried.

The playlist for the June 14 concert will include the Flaming Lips’ 1999 album entitled The Soft Bulletin. The concert on June 15 will feature their rendition of the 1973 Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side of the Moon. This concert will bring to mind their 2009 album named The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon.

The group is also scheduled to tour in the United States beginning on May 13 and continuing until September 10. There are several concerts scheduled in Canada and Europe during this time as well.

The band is planning to appear at several festivals this spring, summer and fall. They will be at Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival on May 14; Gulf Shores, Alabama’s The Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival on May 21; Barcelona, Spain’s Miguel Primavera Sound on May 26; Quincy, Washington’s Sasquatch! Music Festival on May 29; Dublin, Ireland’s Forbidden Fruit Festival on June 4; Atlantic City, New Jersey’s Dave Matthews Band Caravan on June 24; and Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival on September 10.

In addition to those dates, they will also be playing The Soft Bulletin on May 19 and 20 in Atlanta at The Tabernacle and on July 7 and 8 in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom.

And, although specifics have yet to be released, the Lips will also be performing The Dark Side Of The Moon at one of the performances at Chicago’s Dave Matthews Band Caravan on either July 9 or 10.

Two-day passes, priced at $80, to the “Everyone You Know Some Day Will Die” concerts are going to be on presale on Friday, May 6 via Ticketfly.com. One-day passes will go on sale the following day and will be priced at $40.

Only two tickets are allowed per household to the shows. Animals, chairs, tents, and coolers will not be allowed at the shows. In addition, fans will not be allowed to camp out overnight. Items that are allowed include blankets, beverages, food, and pillows.

Quirky rockers Flaming Lips will be hitting the road this month in support of last year’s release ‘Embryonic.’ The band will launch the tour on March 12 in Austin, Texas and carry through to the end of March before taking on some summer festival dates including Bonnaroo. Opening duties for the coming tour have fallen to Stardeath and the White Dwarfs whose lead singer just happens to be nephew of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.

The Flaming Lips latest original album ‘Embryonic’ was a double album, recorded with Dave Fridmann. In December, they also released a remake of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ which included vocals from the likes of Peaches and Henry Rollins. Originally, the work was only available in digital format, but the band has plans for a vinyl release on April 17 and to CD shelves May 4.

The full Flaming Lips tour schedule is listed below.

2010 Flaming Lips Concert Tour
March 2010
12 – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
13 – Denton, TX – Hickory Street Stage
15 – Charlottesville, VA – Charlottesville Pavilion
17 – Poughkeepsie, NY – Mid-Hudson Civic Center
18 – Ithaca, NY – Cornell University
19 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre
21 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
22 – Bloomington, IN – Indiana University Auditorium
23 – Kansas City, KS – Sandstone Amphitheatre

May 2010
15 – Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Music Festival

June 2010
6 – Houston, TX – Free Press Fest
11 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival

July 2010
3 – Oxford, ME – Nateva Music & Arts Festival
22 – Lewiston, NY – Artpark
26 – New York, NY – Central Park Summerstage