Aside from being pooped on, the Beasties made noise down at Bonnaroo when they invited Nas onstage to debut "Too Many Rappers" from their forthcoming "bizarre" LP. The gray-flecked MCs have revealed some more details concerning the awesomely titled Hot... CONTINUE READING BEASTIE BOYS' HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PT. 1 GETS A RELEASE DATE, A TRACKLIST, A SANTIGOLD»
Posted on June 23, 2009 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | Nas | Santigold
The Tonight Show's Triumph The Insult Comic Dog was everywhere at Bonnaroo '09 -- backstage, onstage, Tent City, the Discotheque Arcade, Scratch DJ Academy. We saw the puppet hound duet with animal rights activist Neko Case ("Do any of those... CONTINUE READING TRIUMPH AT BONNAROO VIDEOS ARE HERE (FOR YOU TO POOP ON)»
Posted on June 20, 2009 in (26 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | Bruce Springsteen | Conan O'Brien | Elvis Costello | Jenny Lewis | Max Weinberg | Neko Case | Phish | Robert Smigel | Triumph The Insult Comic Dog | TV On The Radio | Valley Lodge | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Sets from Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen bookended a day of mellow, familiar dadrock with more mass appeal than the inscrutable indie pop that dominated Friday. Backed by Elvis Perkins In Dearland, the ever... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009: TRENT SAYS GOODBYE, BRUCE SAYS MERRY CHRISTMAS»
Posted on June 14, 2009 in , , (29 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Bonnaroo | Bruce Springsteen | Elvis Costello | Elvis Perkins | Jenny Lewis | MGMT | Nine Inch Nails | of Montreal | The Decemberists | Triumph The Insult Comic Dog | Wilco
By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Not that it's a competition, but at any summer festival you'll be expected to answer What Was The Best Set So Far several times a day. We have a tie for Friday, at least... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009: BROOKLYN GO HARD»
Posted on June 13, 2009 in , (37 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | David Byrne | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Nas | Phish | TV On The Radio | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Today's Bonnaroo line-up's got Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Grizzly Bear, and TV On The Radio all back to back. So basically Brooklynroo. With its nursery rhyme melody and visceral cruel summer imagery, Animal Collective's "Summertimes Clothes" is... CONTINUE READING NEW ANIMAL COLLECTIVE VIDEO - "SUMMERTIME CLOTHES"»
Posted on June 12, 2009 in , (65 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Bonnaroo
Proceeds from the live EP benefit Amnesty International. Listen/buy at everythingthathappens.com and consider it a preview for Bonnaroo, where Byrne will be the first artist to curate his own stage (with Santigold, Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent, and himself).... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE NEW DAVID BYRNE EP»
Posted on May 18, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | David Byrne
As advertised, Bonnaroo this year is bringing some great comedians and a slate of Phish, Springsteen, and more Phish: The reunited jam icons play a standard headlining set Sunday night (Beasties and Bruce headline Friday and Saturday, respectively), and a... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009 SCHEDULE REVEALED»
Posted on May 7, 2009 (26 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Green Man Festival | Jarvis Cocker | Yeasayer
Bonnarro added more non-Phish bands to its 2009 lineup, including PE, High On Fire, Dillinger Escape Plan, Passion Pit, and Amadou & Mariam. The comedy tent includes Jimmy Fallon because the trainwreck tent was canceled. Details at bonnaroo.com.... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO ADDS PUBLIC ENEMY & A BUNCH OF COMEDIANS»
Posted on March 25, 2009 (15 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Public Enemy
As rumored late last year, Phish and the Boss will be headlining Bonnaroo 2009. It'll be the legendary jam band's first time at the festival and they'll be making up for lost time by playing two nights. Bruce Springsteen will... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009 LINE-UP: PHISH, SPRINGSTEEN, AND MORE PHISH»
Posted on February 2, 2009 (91 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Bruce Springsteen | Bumbershoot | Cold War Kids | Phish | Wilco
A rumor discussed on message boards and now fueled by Rolling Stone puts Phish on Bonnaroo's What stage Friday and Saturday nights (6/12-6/13 in Manchester, TN). (Bruce Springsteen will allegedly close on Sunday.) It would be the first time the... CONTINUE READING PHISH TO HEADLINE BONNAROO '09?»
Posted on December 16, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Bruce Springsteen | Phish | Trey Anastasio | Vetiver
Hey, remember that time I stood around in a farm waiting 'til 4:40 in the morning with a few thousand irately chanting, drug seizure having, bottle throwing people at Bonnaroo, waiting for Kanye to do a Glow In The Dark... CONTINUE READING KANYE: DON'T BLAME ME, BLAME BONNAROO»
Posted on June 25, 2008 (66 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Kanye West
Did you see Conan last night? That Anne Hathaway is delightful. Did you know she used to be in a college a cappella group? My Morning Jacket were on too, and they did "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream (Part... CONTINUE READING MY MORNING JACKET MEET THEIR BIGGEST FAN ON CONAN»
Posted on June 20, 2008 in (19 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Conan O'Brien | James Lipton | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Nicole Atkins | St. Vincent | Zach Galifianakis
Between all the ranting (Kanye) and raving (Sigur Rós) we didn't get a chance to talk about Ben Folds's set at Bonnaroo. He's still abusing his Baldwin (a string broke on "Landed") and putting the audience to work on vocal... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS PREVIEWS NEW MATERIAL»
Posted on June 19, 2008 in , (21 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Bonnaroo
Bonnaroo was amazing in so many ways. Waiting 'til 4:40AM for Kanye to hit the stage was definitely not one of them. While waiting those two hours I heard one "He better be getting head back there," a few "This... CONTINUE READING "FUCK KANYE WEST": THE BONNAROO GRAFFITI PHOTO SET»
Posted on June 18, 2008 (22 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Kanye West
Ben, Chris, Jason, and Nick hopped inside bumper cars and took on the onerous task of learning how to play WhirlyBall as part of their 52 Bands/52 Weeks stint at MTV. We understand their Stereogum guest blogging stint was tough,... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB TRY ON SHORT SHORTS, SWEATBANDS, WHIRLYBALL FOR MTV»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (16 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Death Cab For Cutie
The tents are collapsed, the recycling collected, the hippies headed to the showers (j/k hippies don't take showers). Bonnaroo '08 now belongs to the chemically enhanced memories of its campers, and to message boards worldwide as people bitch about... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: IT'S A (PHOTO) WRAP»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Adele | Alison Krauss | Bonnaroo | Brendan Benson | Drive-By Truckers | Jack White | José González | M.I.A. | Robert Plant | T-Bone Burnett | Tegan And Sara | The Fiery Furnaces | The Raconteurs | Vampire Weekend
PJ's headlining set Saturday night brought treated one of Bonnaroo's largest crowds to a three-hour, 25 song set. Like Lolla '07, it didn't disappoint, except that it had 100% less Dennis Rodman. EdVed remains a golden god. It's a... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: PEARL JAM GIVE GOOD ED»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Pearl Jam
They (i.e. Barbara Streisand) say people who need people are the luckiest people. But you know who really are the luckiest people? People who have a ticket to see Sigur Rós this summer. It's not that I haven't seen... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: FIVE REASONS YOU NEED TO SEE SIGUR RóS THIS YEAR»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (26 comments)
Tags: amiina | Bonnaroo | Sigur Rós
A month ago the NYTimes's Jon Pareles reviewed Kanye's Glow In The Dark tour stop at MSG saying "There is a new yardstick for the size of the universe. It is approximately equal to the size of Kanye West's ego."... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: THE SUN EXPOSES KANYE'S GLOW IN THE DARK SHOW»
Posted on June 15, 2008 in (180 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Kanye West
It's Economics 101: During hard times and increasing competition, secure your viability by diversifying your brand. Maybe? If I had ever taken Econ I'd know. That sounds good anyway, so I'm going with it. And so is Bonnaroo: Music... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: PHOTOS OF FUNNY PEOPLE (CHRIS ROCK, ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, REGGIE WATTS, JOHN MULANEY)»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Bonnaroo | Chris Rock | John Mulaney | Reggie Watts | SXSW | The Thermals | Zach Galifianakis
Every festival has that band that becomes small talk fodder fest wide, the easy ice breaker, the default conversational touchstone. Last year's Lolla it was Pearl Jam. Last year's Bonnaroo it was the Police. And last night, it was... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: METALLICA ARE AWESOME AT THER INSTRUMENTS, BEING PHOTOGRAPHED»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (35 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Chris Rock | Metallica
Greetings from Manchester, TN, where the present conditions are RAIN and I'M SOAKED, much as they were for approximately 85% of My Morning Jacket's slow-starting but ultimately epic, three-hour midnight set at the Which Stage last night. There was... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: MY MORNING JACKET OWN. EVERYTHING.»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Kirk Hammett | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Zach Galifianakis
Today's full sets from Fiery Furnaces and Raconteurs can be viewed here. (UPDATE: Now with added Metallica.)... CONTINUE READING ROOTUBE»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Metallica | The Fiery Furnaces | The Raconteurs
This is the first year since '03 I'm missing Bonnaroo. So sad. Fortunately, Amrit is there for the 'Gum this year with his big camera to report on all the fun/hype. Right about now he should be heading to Drive-By... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO BEGINS! HIDE YOUR BIBLES...»
Posted on June 13, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo
The hippie jokes are gonna be just a little more original this year! Bonnaroo announces Chris Rock will do a one-hour set of material on the fest's main stage, likely tackling politics, in-case-shit, and dirty twirling kids for one of the largest audiences ever to assemble and be openly mocked to their faces. Too bad it won't be in the comedy tent, but that's gonna be plenty fun this year, anyway. It features Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Mike Birbiglia Jim Norton, Brian Posehn, and "Late Time Chat About": a nighttime live talk show featuring skits, guests, and houseband, hosted by David Cross. Stereogum's drinking game suggestion: Take a shot every time a comic mentions Jack Johnson. You will be wasted.
Posted on February 14, 2008 (2 comments)
