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Update from Bonnaroo!
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Properly topped. Take a look at the cover art of the album that spawned the Bonnaroo name. Same colors and design and that hat is unmistakable. Quite an homage to Dr. John. My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire were absolutely amazing, but I was really here to see more of the smaller bands. The…
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The Final Bonnaroo Preview – My Best of the Rest
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Bonnaroo is right around the corner, and I didn’t have time to talk about everyone that I wanted. So, I will give you a “best of what’s left” list of my picks for this year’s fest. I started my Preview Series from the bottom of the Bonnaroo lineup, so please don’t think that these…
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Chancellor Warhol – Bonnaroo Preview
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A winner of the “Road to Bonnaroo” was Nashville’s own Chancellor Warhol. His unique blending of hip hop with electo-pop is something that is immediately catchy. It’s reminiscent of so much that we hear in mainstream music, but it is mixed up, original, and refreshing. It will be really interesting to see what happens to Mr.…
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Best Coast – Bonnaroo Preview
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Bethany Cosentino’s Best Coast (along with multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, and former Vivian Girls drummer Ali Koehler) has had a meteoric rise through the indie conscious for the past couple of years. Her Crazy For You album (via Mexican Summer) has brought significant critical acclaim from Spin, UK’s Guardian, and Pitchfork granted her the 39th spot in their…
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Deerhunter live – Bonnaroo Preview?
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Ok, this isn’t really in the Bonnaroo Preview series that we have been doing, but, in the days leading up to Bonnaroo how could a little extra music hurt. Deerhunter is the live show tour-de-force brainchild of indie rock mastermind Bradford Cox. They are playing Bonnaroo on Thursday (6/9) from 11:30 pm to 12:45…
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Karen Elson – Bonnaroo Preview
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I am not going to spend a ton of time talking about the first lady of Nashville’s new generation of music. Yes, Karen Elson is the wife of Jack White. Yes, she is a supermodel. Yes, she was a curator of her Nashville fashion boutique for a while. Yes, she is a product of…
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Wavves – Bonnaroo Preview
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San Diego’s Nathan Williams started his brand of lo-fi, indie punk behind his parents house, and it was there that Wavves was born. Wavves released (confusingly) self-titled albums in both 2008 and 2009. These albums received pretty good critical acclaim, and started raising the stakes for Wavves. But, what goes up… must come down,…
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Jay-Z and JEFF the Brotherhood? What?
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Can anyone help me to understand what is going on with this string of tweets? Is Nashville’s (really, JEFF the Brotherhood’s) own Infinity Cat Recording, going the way of WRVU? Are the up and coming artists who are playing Bonnaroo this weekend looking to pull a massive surprise guest? Or, maybe Jay-Z just wants…
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Chatting with a Bonnaroo co-founder
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I spent the last 24 hours in Manchester to visit with an old college buddy, Kerry Black, who co-founded Superfly Presents & Bonnaroo. In the midst of catching up, here is a little run-down of some Tennessee related stuff that we chatted about. No Country (NC): What made you chose Manchester to start Bonnaroo? …