City Stages formally announced part of their 2008 lineup via The Birmingham News as a front page article in Sunday’s (today’s) paper. This list includes a couple of big names – like Diana Ross and The Flaming Lips.

Looks like we were correct in identifying two of this year’s acts , The Roots (March 18) and Old Crow Medicine Show (yesterday). The News was able to figure out a couple of them as well (and a lot earlier than we were – see the Old Crow post to find links to those posts).

You’ll have to run out and get a paper, at least if you want to look at the complete line-up since the festival’s website is currently listing the performers for the Dance Depot. Though if you take a closer look at the image currently on their front page, you can get a glimpse of what’s to come.

Or just view this partial list of the 44 acts currently available on al.com.

We’re assuming that the lineup will become available online later today.

NOTE: We will most likely not be able to update this post with current information from 10:20 a.m. until 1 p.m. today. We will be conducting maintenance on the site.