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Summer festivals can feel more like bummer festivals when it comes to all the beloved bands you have to miss in order to catch all the even more beloved bands playing at the same time. That probably won't be the case at this year's inaugural Rothbury festival (no, not this one), however, as most frequent readers of this here website should have no trouble deciding given a lineup like this.

Modest Mouse or Dave Matthews Band? Of Montreal or Slightly Stoopid? Bettye Lavette or Colbie Caillat? Diplo or John Mayer? Shit, this is easy!*

Other acts set to descend upon the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan for this Bonnaroo-like event: the Black Keys, Gogol Bordello, Drive-By Truckers, Secret Machines, Beth Orton, Sage Francis, Flosstradamus, the Juan Maclean, Busdriver, the Crystal Method (DJ set), the Dresden Dolls, and, eh, Gomez, plus a bunch of stuff like Gov't Mule and the Disco Biscuits. Additional performers will come to light in the coming weeks.

Rothbury pops off the Independence Day weekend of July 3-6, 2008, and like pretty much everything else live music-related nowadays, it's not just about live music: Rothbury is also committed to various environmental concerns, and will even donate solar panels to a local school via the Solar Schools Program.

* We're merely speculating, mind you, as set times have not yet been announced.