Welcome to Bottlerock, 1999! The Napa music festival announced the lineup for its second annual concert, and it’s full of ‘90s nostalgia. Weezer? LL Cool J? Outkast? Ok, I get those, but Third Eye Blind? Barenaked Ladies? Smash Mouth? That’s where I’m lost. I mean, Smash Mouth actually played at the Sonoma-Marin Fair three times in the past eight years. At least Bottlerock didn’t book Tower of Power and Elvin Bishop (nothing against those excellent groups but they play the fair every year, too). Want more ‘90s? Blues Travelor. De La Soul. Spin Doctors. Gin Blossoms. Camper Van Beethoven. Oh, how I wish I were making this up.
The Cure is also headlining, as is Heart. So there’s some ‘80s love being spread around, too. But these old-school bands are being placed alongside hip, young acts like Robert Delong, Empires and Deerhunter. Shoutout to Moonalice for representing the North Bay, maybe they’ll challenge Matisyahu, Sublime with Rome and Tea Leaf Green for the most smoke-filled stage. Oh, and country star Eric Church is the other big name, here. Robert Earl Keen is also playing. Diverse, indeed.
There’s still “more to come,” but I can’t imagine any huge names being announced. Spread out over three days, this will make for an interesting concert. Three-day passes are $249, and will rise to $279 soon. Single-day tickets are not yet on sale, but when they were available last week (at a discounted Napa residents price), they were $129.
As for this little gem, you’re welcome.
The full lineup, mostly for SEO purposes:
The Cure
Outkast
Eric Church
Barenaked Ladies
Ben Sollee
Blues Traveler
Camper Van Beethoven
Cracker
De La Soul
Deerhunter
Delta Rae
Ed Kowalczyk
Empires
Gin Blossoms
Heart
Howie Day
Hurray For The Riff Raff
James Otto
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
Keep Shelly In Athens
LL Cool J
Matisyahu
Matt and Kim
Miner
Moon Taxi
Moonalice
Robert DeLong
Robert Earl Keen
Smash Mouth
Spin Doctors
Sublime with Rome
Tea Leaf Green
The Black Angels
The Fray
The Stone Foxes
Thee Oh Sees
Third Eye Blind
Victory
Weezer
.Bottlerock Lineup Announced—Welcome Back to the ’90s!
