According to an anonymous tip sent to industry pundit Bob Lefsetz, Metallica and Led Zeppelin are confirmed for next year’s Bonnaroo festival, the annual 4-day hippie and hipster fest in Manchester, Tennessee. Tool played last year’s event, marking a big departure from the usual array of jam bands and blog-flavor-of-the-moment indie rock bands.

Led Zeppelin I can see; generations of people of all types of music grew up listening to Zeppelin. But won’t Metallica be the odd one out? I’d have to imagine that many attendees chose to go to a different stage while Tool was on last year; Maynard himself called everyone a bunch of “crazy hippies.” Or has Metallica reached that level of mainstream ubiquity where they’ll actually go over well with a bunch of snot-nosed indie rockers singing along to “Enter Sandman”?

-VN