XM Satellite Radio has announced that it will expand its broadcast coverage of the LIVE 8 concerts to include every artist and every performance live from London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia, and Barrie (Toronto).

That’s more than 55 hours of performances and as a result XM will dedicate seven channels to the LIVE 8 performances on July 2nd - one for each city!

Also an anchor channel will cut to live performances in different cities around the globe. The XM channels that will be covering the event can be found after the jump:

XM Satellite Radio will exclusively broadcast LIVE 8 performances from London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia starting on July 2nd. XM personalities will be covering the performances live on location at each event.

XM’s Satellite Radio LIVE 8 broadcasts begin at 9am (ET) on July 2nd with performances from London and Paris on XM LIVE (XM Channel 200) and performances from Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia on XM LIVE II (XM Channel 201).

The LIVE 8 broadcast will kick off XM’s month-long “JULIVE” celebration of live music from XM’s massive live music archives.

SIRIUS will be kicking off July 4th weekend themselves with live in-studio performance by country star Glen Campbell with legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb, as well as a live broadcast from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum featuring radio legend Cousin Brucie.

XM Satellite Radio is hitting this year’s Bonnaroo music festival big time with live broadcast performances from June 10th to June 12th.

Broadcasting from the Bonnaroo’s main stage, comedy tent and other music stages - including the XM-sponsored Sonic Stage in the Bonnaroo Sonic Village - XM will host live interviews and acoustic performances from the Sonic Stage throughout the weekend.

A team of XM personalities will be there including Jessie Scott of X Country, Joel Haas of XM Comedy, Grant of Squizz and Paul Bachmann of Fred (who will anchor XM’s Bannaroo coverage). On top of all that, XM’s Music Lab channel will switch over to 100% Bonnaroo content during the festival.

To kick off the festivities, starting on June 9th, XM will be playing 24 hours of live music from artists featured at this and previous Bonnaroo festivals.

Artist line-up includes: Dave Matthews Band, Trey Anastasio, Bob Weir and Ratdog, Allman Brothers Band, The Black Crowes, Joss Stone, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters ‘05, Jack Johnson, Gov’t Mule, Toots & The Maytals, Amos Lee, John Prine, Iron & Wine and Drive By Truckers.

Check out the Bonnaroo website for more goodies.

Once again I’m impressed with the acceptance of bloggers by corporations. It definitely shows we’re turning a new leaf in how ‘public relations’ is viewed (especially as the Main Stream Media collapses beneith it’s bloated ego). This was illustrated perfectly when XM Satellite Radio invited me to celebrate the partnership between XM and Jazz at the Lincoln Center at a VIP Reception.

Honestly, I’m just some schmuck with a website and a keyboard, so I was really excited that XM extended this sort of invitation to little ol’ me. I honestly feel they ‘get it’ when it comes to the blogging community, and I just want to extend my thanks to them for being so progressive thinking.

More pics after the jump…