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No Country’s Guide to Bonnaroo 2025: 18 Must-See Friday Performances
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Bonnaroo week is upon us! A festival that feels like it’s ever evolving (especially with some big tweaks and improvements in the past few summers post-pandemic), this year marks Bonnaroo’s 22nd installment (and 24th anniversary), boasting not only another great and varied lineup, but also some exciting additions like the brand new, high-tech Infinity Stage,…
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Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, Hozier, Luke Combs, & More to Play Bonnaroo 2025
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It’s been a revitalizing past few summers at Bonnaroo– the region’s preeminent music festival- which returned in 2022 after a couple years of pandemic and weather related postponements and cancellations, and saw attendance rise once more to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 and at last summer’s excellent fest, both feeling like a return to form,…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Forecastle 2022
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Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. It’s been almost three years since we last covered a major music festival, after nearly a decade of attending several each and every summer. While last fall’s rescheduled then subsequently rained-out Bonnaroo was our planned return to live coverage, getting to do so a little later…
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No Country’s Guide to Forecastle 2022: 8 Must-See Sunday Performances
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Louisville’s Forecastle Festival is one of our favorite annual events; a manageably-sized, well-curated, extremely fun and organized festival in a nearby city we love to visit. Returning this week after two years off due to the pandemic, the fest- initially founded in 2002- trades its traditional July timeframe for Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29, this time around…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Bonnaroo 2016 | Thursday & Friday
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“Celebrating 15 years of magic” was the tagline of Bonnaroo this year, as the seminal festival, inarguably a catalyst for helping usher in a boom of American festival interest, crossed a major milestone. For those who attended Bonnaroo 2002, Bonnaroo 2016 might feel like a distant cousin, having transformed, incrementally at first, into something more eclectic, something…
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No Country’s Guide to Bonnaroo 2016: Our 30 Most-Anticipated Performers
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This weekend, June 9-13, we head back to nearby Manchester, TN for the 15th year of Bonnaroo! As the epic festival fast approaches (check out our breakdown of ticket and camping options if you’re the procrastinating type), and as our exhaustive coverage of every single performer on the bill winds down, we wanted to help you get…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Tyler, the Creator
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Bonnaroo Artist | Tyler, the Creator Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | Friday | This Tent | 9:45 p.m. As we’ve been doing for the past several years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2016 lineup. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up,…
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Bonnaroo’s Roo Clues ’16: Number 5
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Bonnaroo‘s annual lineup guessing game, Roo Clues, is currently underway, and, similar to last year, it seems that they’ll all be Instagram-based word games (a definite shift from past years with real-life scavenger hunts and elaborate riddles, but we’ll take it). In total, ten clues are set to drop, likely two per week, and will provide…
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Music on Television | 4.1-4.6
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Once again, we’re bringing you our roundup of the best live music on television for the week. The amount of great performances can be hard to keep track of, so every Monday I’ll recap the best and most interesting of what’s coming up. I’ll be sure to give you one essential pick for each…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 3.25-3.31
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April already? The first quarter of 2013 has flown by! Over the past few monts, we’ve launched our new site, hosted our first show as No Country Presents, covered some great events like SXSW and East Nashville Underground, continued our great local and national news and reviews, and we’ve had our best three months…