Pitchfork

Click on over to the web central stations of either Bonnaroo or the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and you'll be greeted by the just-posted, handy-dandy schedules for their respective multi-day music extravaganzas. Not just a convenient way to plot out 15 minutes to find a place to pee weeks or months in advance, the itineraries also give one a chance to make some tough choices. With lineups as action-packed as Bonnaroo's and ACL's, there's bound to be some conflict, and, well, here are a few we'd have some trouble picking between.

Bonnaroo's coming up fast-- kicking off four stinkin' hot days of jams June 12-- so we'll start there. Organizers have done a fairly good job of keeping things of a similar genre from playing against each other, but for the discerning fest-goer, there's still plenty in the way of conundrum. Will you opt for the Raconteurs or !!!? Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., or Willie frickin Nelson? MSTRKRFT or the first half of an epic three-hour My Morning Jacket set? José Gonzaléz or the Fiery Furnaces? Mastodon or Cat Power? Lupe Fiasco, Chromeo, or Sigur Rós? Orchestra Baobab or Ladytron? Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, or Solomon Burke? Metallica, or a screening of The 40 Year Old Virgin? Yeah, probably should just Netflix Some Kind of Monster. Kidding!

ACL's not 'til September 26-28, giving you a whole season to make and re-make your mind up. Still, it's gonna be tricky: M. Ward or Gogol Bordello? Hot Chip, Mates of State or Jenny Lewis? N.E.R.D. or David Byrne? The Mars Volta or Manu Chao? Jamie Lidell or José Gonzaléz? Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings or Drive-By Truckers? Del the Funky Homosapien or Man Man? Conor Oberst or John Fogerty? Iron and Wine, the Black Keys, or Roky Erickson? The Kills or Octopus Project? Stars or Against Me!? The Raconteurs or Gnarls Barkley? Tegan and Sara or Band of Horses? Okkervil River or Blues Traveler? You can probably guess which side of that fence we'd fall on, but, hey, "Run-Around".