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Bonnaroo 2013 Announces Initial Schedule

Adam Gold — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:43:00 -0500

The wait is over! And the planning begins, as Bonnaroo 2013 announced its initial schedule today.

Predictably, seeing as how this year the ‘Roo…

Bonnaroo 2013 Announces Additional Artists [Empire of the Sun, Solange, Polyphonic Spree, William Tyler, Kacey Musgraves, More]

Adam Gold — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:29:00 -0500

Just when you thought this year’s Bonnaroo lineup couldn’t get any fresher, the festival announces a slew of additional artists to round out…

Paul McCartney, Mumford and Sons, R. Kelly, Bjork, Tom Petty and More Top Bonnaroo Lineup

Adam Gold — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:44:45 -0600

If you didn’t tune in to Bonnaroo’s needlessly drawn-out lineup announcement shenanigans this afternoon, don’t fret: You missed what was essentially an unofficial sequel to…

Spurgeon's General Warning: Meritless David Bowie Speculation

Ashley Spurgeon — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:43:15 -0600

David Bowie, aka David Robert Jones, aka Nicola Tesla, aka Glammaster Flash, has a new record coming out. I can hear your wheels turning…

Bonnaroo 2013 Kicks off Buffudling Clue Campaign

Adam Gold — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:58:10 -0600

Unless you’re that bored, without an Internet connection, on a long drive, killing time beside a campfire or inducing Stockholm syndrome with kindhearted kidnappers, riddles…

Watch Four Songs From Moon Taxi's Bonnaroo Set; Also Watch Them Answer Fan Questions in Silly Fashion

D. Patrick Rodgers — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:30:00 -0600

Local jammy progsters — or proggy jamsters, whichever you prefer — Moon Taxi played an opening-night set before…

Bonnaroo Announces 2013 Dates, Which Don’t Overlap With CMA Fest

Adam Gold — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:25:10 -0500

Great news, people! The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which I’m guessing you’ve heard of before, announced the…

Relive Bonnaroo 2012 as Time-Lapsed to the Sounds of Radiohead in Through the Woods

Adam Gold — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:54:55 -0500

Did you miss Bonnaroo this year? Still bummed about it? Well, Through the Woods, a very short film,…

Stephen Colbert Fires Away at Bonnaroo in Announcement for StePhest Colbchella

Adam Gold — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:49:36 -0500

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Cherub Jams in a Van at Bonnaroo [Fresh Vids]

D. Patrick Rodgers — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:47:32 -0500

Remember when we shared with you that in-a-van session PUJOL's Daniel Pujol shot with the Bonnaroo…

Missed Connections: Bonnaroo 2012

Ashley Spurgeon — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:17:04 -0500

It’s been a few weeks now, and the Bonnaroo dust has finally settled — or has it? When 80,000 hot people are thrown together for…

Tristen on Feist's Which Stage Performance

Tristen Gaspadarek — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:29:20 -0500

Editor's Note: Since The Spin has caught Feist not once but twice in recent months, we took local songstress Tristen up on…

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Bonnaroo 2012: DPR's Days Three and Four [The Roots, Alice Cooper, Skrillex, The Beach Boys, Fly Golden Eagle, More]

D. Patrick Rodgers — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:30:00 -0500

Not to be a complete wristband diva, but landing artist credentials via a pal really does afford you a lot of Bonnaroo opportunities you…
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Bon Iver Sunday at What Stage

The Spin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0500

Toward the beginning of their set, Grammy-winning Bon Iver’s hirsute, brains-behind-operation frontman, Justin Vernon, remarked at the sheer scale of What Stage. “They couldn’t…
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Bonnaroo 2012: The Return of Mud City [Black Lips, Beach Boys, more]

Lance Conzett — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:01:00 -0500

The trouble with the back quarter of Bonnaroo — from about midnight Saturday until whenever you decide to halfheartedly jam your tent in the back…
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You Got to Know When to Dose [Phish, Kenny Rogers]

Jack Silverman — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:51:56 -0500

Pardon the jerky camera work — trying to shoot video without a tripod among throngs of…
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Bonnaroo 2012, Gravy Style Day Four: All Things Must Pass

Seth Graves — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:34:07 -0500

Sundays at Bonnaroo are a mix bag of emotions for those of us who’ve stayed for the long haul. Now evolved officially from displaced…
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Baloney-Roo 2012: Know When to Fold 'Em [Flogging Molly, D'Angelo, GZA, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie]

Sean Maloney — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:24:19 -0500

Lionel Richie. Lionel Motherfucking Richie showed up to duet with Kenny Motherfucking Rogers. Of all the random shit that has ever happened at the 'Roo,…
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Bonnaroo 2012: Spurgeon's General Day Three Round-Up [Das Racist, Wild Cub, Santigold, More]

Ashley Spurgeon — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:25:15 -0500

Day Three was the coolest and breeziest so far: Festival conditions weren't exactly comfortable, but easily the most tolerable I've experienced in the Tennessee summer.…
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Puscifer Saturday at That Tent

The Spin — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:55:40 -0500

Maynard James Keenan — our favorite middle-aged misanthrope. His show Saturday at That Tent was a deranged performance art project, a portrait of portent and…
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Bonnaroo 2012, Gravy Style Day Three: Glenn Danzig vs. Nashville Cream

Seth Graves — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:34:45 -0500

As a personal rule, I tend to speak unfavorably about Bonnaroo bands who don’t allow media into the press…
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Bonnaroo 2012: Glenn Danzig Versus the World [Charles Bradley, Childish Gambino, more]

Lance Conzett — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:17:42 -0500

If there’s one thing you can do to make your Bonnaroo experience more pleasant, it’s give Sean Maloney $30 to cook for you. That point…
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Baloney-Roo 2012: What, No Darondo? [Afrocubism, Ludacris, Black Star, Flying Lotus, Big Freedia]

Sean Maloney — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:30:02 -0500

Damnit! Darondo canceled! While there's almost certainly nobody else that cares, I had planned my entire weekend around seeing the obscuro-funk champ. Ah well, Charles…
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Bonnaroo 2012: DPR's Day Two [St. Vincent, Caitlin Rose, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, More]

D. Patrick Rodgers — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:30:00 -0500

Any day that culminates with Britain’s unlikeliest rock gods playing their iconic post-rock to tens of thousands while backed by a wall of LED…
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Bonnaroo 2012: Radiohead — Enough Said

Jim Ridley — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:04:00 -0500

Apart from a half-hearted attempt to see a few songs by Ludacris over the human roadblock outside This Tent, and a couple of songs trying…
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