Bonnaroo

  • Bonnaroo Preview – Parkington Sisters

    It’s a female, all-in-the-family version of Fleet Foxes!!!  A pretty cool sound radiates through the peaceful aura of this quintet of highly trained musical sisters.  The Cape Cod girls grew up in a very musical household, have extensive musical training, and have experimented with a number of musical outlets before coming together to form…

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  • Bonnaroo Preview – River City Extension

    Once just the dream-child of New Jersey singer-songwriter Joe Michelini, these folksters have come on strong through perseverance and determination.  They self produced an EP (Nautical Sabbatical) in 2009 and hit the road as a touring tour-de-force.  River City Extension signed with XOXO Records to release their first LP (The Unmistakable Man) in 2010. …

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  • Deluxe Arcade Fire Suburbs record

    Bonnaroo headliners, The Arcade Fire, are planning to keep riding the flame of the 2010 record of the year, The Suburbs, with the release of a deluxe edition containing two new tracks on June 27th.  They also have a Spike Jonze directed film “Scenes From The Suburbs” in the works.  You’ll have to wait…

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  • Spin Magazine’s (free download) Sasquatch Music Festival mixtape

    Visit Spin Magazine’s website for a free download (well, for the cost of an email address) featuring bands playing at the upcoming Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington (state). Highlighted acts on the mixtape are listed below.  Some of them are coming to the Nashville area soon.  So, be sure to…

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  • NPR First Listening Party: Cults, Death Cab for Cutie, and My Morning Jacket

    If you head over to NPR’s website, you can stream a first listen of the new records by Cults, Death Cab for Cutie, and My Morning Jacket. We’ve already talked a bit about the upcoming release of MMJ (and, of course, their upcoming set at Bonnaroo).  Well the entire album (which is awesome) is…

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  • Tag, you’re it….. Play it forward!

    The Voice Project has been getting quite a bit of publicity recently and for good reason.  This is such an awesome idea.  One artist plays a cover of another artist, and then the covered artist has to cover another artist, and so on…. This online video series raises money and awareness for women in…

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  • Bonnaroo preview – Tristen

    If you are planning to go to Bonnaroo (and care enough about music to have found this blog), I assume that everyone knows the first 10 to 15 lines on the bonnaroo artist lineup.  So, my intention here is to give you a number of daily blog posts heading up to the festival introducing…

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  • Bonnaroo preview – Walk The Moon

    If you are planning to go to Bonnaroo (and care enough about music to have found this blog), I assume that everyone knows the first 10 to 15 lines on the bonnaroo artist lineup.  So, my intention here is to give you a number of daily blog posts heading up to the festival introducing…

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  • Bonnaroo preview – The White Buffalo

    If you are planning to go to Bonnaroo (and care enough about music to have found this blog), I assume that everyone knows the first 10 to 15 lines on the bonnaroo artist lineup.  So, my intention here is to give you a number of daily blog posts heading up to the festival introducing…

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  • Bonnaroo Preview – The Head And The Heart

    If you are planning to go to Bonnaroo (and care enough about music to have found this blog), I assume that everyone knows the first 10 to 15 lines on the bonnaroo artist lineup.  So, my intention here is to give you a number of daily blog posts heading up to the festival introducing…

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