Though the music world was atwitter with the news of the Coachella lineup Monday, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust -- who's band's set to be featured prominently at the festival -- played it cool last night, standing sidestage along with his bandmate Jonnie Russell while watching his former touring partners (and roommates!) in We Barbarians at the tiny Silverlake Lounge in Los Angeles.

"It's my first Coachella," he said, when Spinner asked if he was excited to play. "I didn't really go to many festivals before we started playing them. In fact, Lollapalooza ['06] was the first festival I ever went to."

Don't expect a full Cold War Kids tour anytime soon. Though the band will play some other festival one-offs this summer, they're currently working on their second full-length, shooting for a fall release.

Wilco guitarist Nels Cline's been getting a lot of the credit for the otherworldly noises on the band's latest album, 'Sky Blue Sky.' But some of the phenomenal guitarist's secrets are a bit closer to home.

When Spinner asked Cline at Bonnaroo how he makes the dissonant scraping sounds on live versions of songs like 'Spiders (Kidsmoke),' he suggested buying an inch-thick screw to play as a slide. Does he buy it from guitar center? "Ace Hardware," he says.

The Cold War Kids tackled Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' at Bonnaroo -- a strange choice on the surface, but one that drummer Matt Aviero tells Spinner was a no-brainer. "Nate's one of the few singers in a rock band that could tackle that," he says of frontman Nathan Willet.

Later this summer, the band are scheduled to play Lollapalooza, as well as open for the White Stripes and Muse. But Aviero says that though he's excited for both events, he's equally excited about spending some time back home in L.A.

Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn's got a compelling -- and exhausting -- stage presence, with his stamina put to the test from the band's recent hardcore touring regimen. So what's changed since their bar band days to guarantee he doesn't pass out from exhaustion? "I've gotten focus on health in general," Finns tells Spinner. "And not losing your voice and not going crazy. Also, I've been running a lot and trying to get into good shape. We played outdoors in Austin the other night and it was so hot. But I was able to do a better performance by being in a better place."

Finn also recently played a benefit with his idol, Bruce Springsteen. The two collaborated (along with a host of other artists) on the veteran rocker's classic 'Rosalita.' "A lot of different things lined up perfectly that night,'" Finn says.

In one of the most anticipated Bonnaroo performances, the White Stripes took the stage with cool confidence on the festival's last night with the opening chords of 'Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground.' The minimalist duo of Jack and Meg White ripped through a set of old and new, including songs 'I Think I Smell a Rat,' 'Blue Orchid' and the title track from the band's new album, 'Icky Thump.' "I got word that someone here wanted to ask the person next to him to marry them during this set," Jack said from the crimson colored stage. "That person knows who he is. The next song's called 'A Martyr of My Love for You.'"

John Paul Jones has become this Bonnaroo's Les Claypool -- the musician you can't help but see. After jamming bluegrass troupe Uncle Earl on Day Two, as well as Ben Harper and the Roots' ?uestlove during last night's SuperJam, the producer and former Led Zeppelin bassist reteamed with Harper for the latter's Day Three set. The two, accompanied by Harper's full band, tackled Zep's 'Dazed and Confused,' pushing the song to its spacey limits.

At the end of a raucous set on Day Three of Bonnaroo, Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz gave new meaning to the phrase crowd surfing. While Medeski, Martin and Wood's Billy Martin and a pair of stilted women looked on, Hutz threw himself atop a drum head and stood on it while the audience gave it a good push across the crowd.