Today In Music News: Phish At Bonnaroo, Barenaked Ladies In Boxes, RIAA At Home and Lil Wayne In Trouble. Late Add: Michael Jackson Fighting For His Life?

Your top national music stories for Monday, December 22, 2008: It's never too early to start talking about the '09 festival season: It looks like a reunited Phish may headline two nights at Bonnarroo this year. So you'd better start letting that beard grow out now. But, you still have...

By Pete FreedmanDecember 22, 2008

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Your top national music stories for Monday, December 22, 2008:

It’s never too early to start talking about the ’09 festival season: It looks like a reunited Phish may headline two nights at Bonnarroo this year. So you’d better start letting that beard grow out now. But, you still have a few months to go before you can stop showering.
Barenaked Ladies are preparing to release a box set of their material. Sweet! Hopefully it will have both of their good songs!
The RIAA has decided that suing people for illegally downloading music isn’t working. So, now they are going to get your ISP provider to tell you to stop.
Weezy may know how to make a hit single, but he doesn’t know how to clear samples. Maybe he has been spending a little too much time locked behind Xanax bars to realize he needed clearance. –Lance Lester
Late add: Could Michael Jackson be fighting for his life? A Jackson biographer says the King of Pop is suffering from a rare lung ailment and may be too weak to undergo surgery.