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2012 Bamboozle Lineup - Headliners Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Bon Jovi

The 2012 Bamboozle Festival comes a little later this year as it celebrates its 10th year anniversary, moving to the middle of May and returning to its roots at North Beach in Asbury Park, NJ. It's fitting New Jersey boys Bon Jovi are headlining, as well as Foo Fighters, and blink-182.

The Bamboozle, which worked its way up to the Meadowlands at East Rutherford over the past few years, actually began as a festival called Skate and Surf. Bands that helped the festival get it start include Long Island's Taking Back Sunday, New Jersey natives My Chemical Romance and (now defunct) Armor for Sleep, and even Fall Out Boy. (Last year while the Bamboozle was kicking things up at The Meadowlands, power pop king Paul Collins and The Beat Army introduced the Pop-a-Licious festival at Asbury Park, featuring lots of up-and-coming pop bands.)

I'd be very surprised if Taking Back Sunday are not present for the 10th anniversary event. TBS have had a special place at Bamboozle since the beginning:

Singer Adam Lazzara has a particular affinity for the Bamboozle festival, which features hundreds of bands on many stages in a carnival-like atmosphere...

"Any direction you turn there's something new to see." Adam told Deaconlight prior to the band's appearance at the 2011 Bamboozle Festival. "That's what makes it so cool. We've played a lot of festivals over in the UK and Europe. For bands that came up in the same scene we came up in, Bamboozle is kind of like 'our festival.' We feel like we're a big part of it. Before it was Bamboozle it was called Skate and Surf. We were on the first couple of those shows because we were a Northeast band. So it's awesome to be a part of it as it's been growing. We're really happy that they had us back." [Adam Lazarra - March 2011]

Bamboozle 2012 Schedule by Date

Bamboozle 2012 - Friday Lineup: May 18th

• Incubus
• Skrillex - aka Sonny Moore, who sang on two killer albums by From First to Last - Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount and Herione. From what I understand, he couldn't tour for Heroine due to vocal damage and eventually left the band, which might explain why his new electro-pop/dub-step sound doesn't sound much like "Mother Sound" or "The Latest Plague."
• Mac Miller [Pittsburgh hip-hop]
• We Came As Romans
• Mike Posner
• The Recieving End of Sirens
• AER
• Aiden Chance
• David Garibaldi
• Kreayshawn
• Miss May I
• Stray From The Path
• V-Nasty
• Whitechapel
• The Wonder Years
• Sailesh The Uncensored Hypnotist
• DJ Prime
• Gonzo

Bamboozle 2012 - Saturday Lineup: May 19th

• Foo Fighters
• blink-182
• Jimmy Eat World
• DJ Pauly D
• All American Rejects
• Never Shout Never
• A$AP Rocky
• The Maine
• Motion City Soundtrack
• The Promise Ring
• Anti-Flag
• Hot Water Music
• Boysetsfire
• Action Bronson
• Ballyhoo!
• The Dear Hunter
• Emmure
• Michael Monroe
• Big Chocolate
• Iggy Azalea
• Protector
• Hi-Rez
• Periphery

Bamboozle 2012 - Sunday Lineup: May 20th

• Bon Jovi
• Linc's Very Special Guest
• The Bouncing Souls
• Boys Like Girls - They were supposed to play last year's Bamboozle but bowed out supposedly because of recording conflicts.
• Andrew Dice Clay
• Outasight
• Alesana
• Bayside
• Catch 22
• Comeback Kid
• He Is We
• Trapped Under Ice
• Like Moths To Flames
• Murphy's Law
• Riff Raff
• Woe
• Is Me
• Tesseract
• Texas in July
• Folly
• The Story So Far
• Patent Pending
• Skizzy Mars

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