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A crazy bitch named Katrina may have temporarily displaced the festival last year, but New Orleans' Voodoo Music Experience returns to the area's City Park district this coming Halloween weekend, celebrating its eighth anniversary.

The two day event, going down October 28 and 29, features performances from a number of 'fork-friendly acts, including: the Flaming Lips, Wu-Tang Clan, Broken Social Scene, the Fiery Furnaces, Drive-By Truckers, Jamie Lidell, Secret Machines, the Rentals, Brazilian Girls, Duran Duran, the reunited original lineup of Nola's beloved Meters, and P4kHQ guilty pleasures My Chemical Romance and Ferry Corsten.

Also onboard: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shooter Jennings, Blue October, Kings of Leon, Jack's Mannequin, and loads of regional favorites. The festival's website promises more acts will be announced soon. Full line-up ahead.

Weekend passes for Voodoo are on sale now, while those willing to pony up a few (hundred) bucks more gain access to some sort of frou-frou VIP lounge. Swank!

Saturday, October 28: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Original Meters, Social Distortion, Shooter Jennings, Secret Machines, Blue October, Brazilian Girls, Ferry Corsten, Broken Social Scene, Drive-By Truckers, Kinky, Jamie Lidell, Living Things, Joseph Arthur, Otra, Mute Math, Fatter Than Albert, Jose Conde y Ola Fresca, Ellipsis, Soul Rebels, Terra Diablo, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Imagination Movers, Ballzack, Amanda Shaw, NOOMOON Tribe, Worms Union, Nag Hammadi, Pain Tribe, Zydepunks, Spoonfed Tribe, Ray Bong & Mad Mike, Six Foot Shallow.

Sunday, October 29: Duran Duran, Wu-Tang Clan, the Flaming Lips, My Chemical Romance, Kings of Leon, Ozomatli, Yerba Buena, Jack's Mannequin, the Rentals, the Fiery Furnaces, the Whigs, Cowboy Mouth and friends, Kermit Ruffins, Morning 40 Federation, Big Sam's Funky Nation, Hot 8 Brass Band, Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Sam and Ruby featuring Dan Dyer, NOOMOON Tribe, Worms Union, Nag Hammadi, Pain Tribe, F.I.S.T., Ratty Scurvics Singularity, the Eyelash Carpets.