Subject: Music Festivals

• De Novo Dahl in Style

  August 6, 2008

• Next Big Sleep Deprivation 2008: Wrap Party

  September 15, 2008

• Get Your Buzz On?

  September 15, 2008

• From Indie to Outie

  July 31, 2008

• Superdrag, Landon Pigg, Leslie Keffer among Nashville acts headed to SXSW '09

  March 12, 2009

• Cage the Elephant to Play Coachella

  At this very moment we are within 24 hours of an initial Bonnaroo lineup announcement. My fingers are still crossed that rumors of a Springsteen appearance will be confirmed and that something very bad happens to Phish. I mean, I don't want them to get maimed or killed or anything, but if one of them were to get a really bad hangnail or something, forcing the cancellation of their tour and eliminating the possibility of (both) their Bonnaroo appearances, then I wouldn't complain. One thing I

  February 2, 2009

• No More Tours: R.I.P. Ozzfest 1996-2008

  Ozzy weeps.Do you remember the "even Steven" episode of "Seinfeld"? You know, one door closes another one opens. Last week I told you about the return of Limp Bizkit--one door closing. Well it looks like they might not have a tour to go on because guess what's not coming here this year? Ozzfest. You know why, because it's not coming anywhere--one door opening, as it was announced last week on ozzfest.com that: The two-time Grammy Award winner has decided that he will not be touring until he h

  February 20, 2009

• Road to Bonnaroo 2009: Go Fight Win Tonight!

  A you will surely recall, we told you that three Nashville bands will get to play Bonnaroo 2009, thanks to BMI and Mercy Lounge, via the 8 off 8th format. Voting each night determines the winner. Winner plays Bonnaroo. Remember: You can only pick up a ballot before the first band goes on, and you can only turn in your ballot after the last band is finished. Tonight's the first night, and here's the lineup: The Features The Garland Sisters Korean Is Asian Lylas Tommy and the Whale Kindercastle

  March 23, 2009

• Rubber City Roots

  October 2, 2008

• Bonnaroo Attendee 'Hopes to Be Clean Soon'

  Maybe another dozen showers will do it

  July 24, 2008

• Crazy Train

  June 12, 2008

• Hippies, Heat and Hot Jams

  June 12, 2008

• Not Playing Here

  April 10, 2008

• On the Cheap

  How to attend SXSW unofficially

  March 6, 2008

• Radio Daze

  Local music folks man the controls at Bonnaroo’s backstage recording studio

  June 14, 2007

• La Dolce Vita

  Matt Allen brings free sweet treats to Bonnaroo

  June 14, 2007

• Musical Mazel Tov

  NCO’s Jewish American Music Fest will show why this brand of ethnic music is red-hot

  March 8, 2007

• Benevolent Tornado

  An unlikely fellow plans a Southern rock festival

  August 17, 2006

• Access Lollywood

  Nashville and Chicago converge backstage at Lollapalooza

  August 10, 2006

• One Dirty Trip

  It won't be long before Bonnaroo goes to the dogs

  June 17, 2004

• Supervised Rebellion

  You couldn’t buy beer at Warped Tour, and you never detected a whiff of pot, but at the end of the night, the grounds were completely trashed

  June 29, 2006

• Running the Gauntlet

  Everything you need to know to get you (and your stash) to Bonnaroo safely

  June 15, 2006

• What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?

  June 15, 2006

• Pickin' on Nashville

  Nashville Music Classic hosts its third annual bluegrass festival

  September 22, 2005

• Joint Session

  Support for medical marijuana spreads like grass fire

  December 2, 2004

• News Briefly

  This just in

  June 10, 2004

• Shameless Self Promotion

  March 13, 2003

• Bring in the Punk

  Warped Tour continues to provide quality amidst quantity

  July 12, 2001

• Separate Rooms

  Concerts offer varying definitions of chamber music

  March 23, 2000

• Weighted Down

  March 26, 1998

• Review

  August 21, 1997

• Critical recording

  May 1, 1997

• Groove-Happy

  August 15, 1996

• Cultural Exchange

  March 21, 1996

• Can't Afford Your Bonnaroo Tix? Put 'Em on Layaway!

  You may have seen some news coverage on the return of layaway during these can't-afford-shit-right-now-but-I-still-want-it-anyway economic times. You instantly picture the layaway of yore (apparently called lay-by in Australia and the UK?), where financially struggling folks waited it out at that counter in the back of the department for stuff like furniture and TVs. But apparently even big music festivals are getting in on it. Eighteen percent of Coachella attendees bought their tickets on a

  April 20, 2009

• Warped Tour Goes Country?

  D. Ricky Rodriguez According to this Billboard article (via Reuters) Vans Warped Tour co-founder Kevin Lyman has decided to apply his summer-fest savvy business model to country music with a "multi-act, multistage, sponsor-driven and conservatively priced" roadshow that will make its inaugural run in the summer of 2010. To put the tour together, Lyman has opened an office of his 4fini Productions in Nashville. His company's team visited Nashville in January to meet with labels, managers and a

  May 4, 2009

• Road Trip to Memphis: A Bunch of Good Bands to Play Gonerfest 2009

  This year, we've already seen the scheduled lineups for all sorts of indie rock music festivals: Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork. The blogosphere was abuzz, and why not? There are so many things to love about an indie rock festival. It's like a vacation where you get to see a lot of bands for a (relatively) cheap price, get drunk during the day, and meet new people who might turn out to be hot. But there's one fact about indie rock festivals that you just can't avoid: They have indie rock ba

  May 15, 2009

• Is 'Bonnaroo' the Most Hippie Word Ever Created? [Linguistic Challenge]

  I was talking to a friend last night whose response to Bonnaroo is that he's going to Chicago for a week, starting tomorrow. Let's just say he's not a fan. Sure, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, St. Vincent--all artists he really likes--are playing this year, and the festival has clearly grown beyond its jam-band beginnings. But my friend hates anything even remotely hippie. You could call him prejudiced, and he'd be fine with that. The real problem with Bonnaroo, I think, is the name. H

  June 10, 2009

• Tennessee's 'Mayberry' 361 days a year

  June 11, 2009

• Touché, Old Girl: A Voicemail Response to a Bonnaroo Piece

  We advised you on some Bonnaroo tips last week, and we hope you put them to good use while you were trippin' on some down and dirty. I myself wrote a little guide to acting your age at the old 'Roo--with different sections for each age group--since it's the sort of festival that draws the whole rainbow of human experience. It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, because anyone can go to Bonnaroo and act however the hell they want and no one ever cares. Turns out, some lady who's 55 didn't quite see i

  June 16, 2009

• Phoenix, Wilco & Yeasayer at Bonnaroo 6/12/09-6/13/09

  photo by Mark C. AustinPhoenix 11:30 p.m., Friday - Phoenix at That Tent With rumors of a cancellation from Phoenix circulating in the press area all day, we waited on pins and needles to determine whether or not we'd catch a set from the seasoned French popsters. We were pleased not only to see that they'd made it, but also that their show offered what was pretty much the perfect combination of Bonnaroo factors: It was a late-but-not-exhaustingly-late set from a band with an established catalo

  June 16, 2009

• Man Found Dead in Tent at Bonnaroo

  Even as we indulge in loads of free-spirited debauchery each year at the 'Roo, it's important never to lose sight of the fragility of life. Looks like the first--and luckily, only--reported Bonnaroo 2009 death has turned up. From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Cleaning crew workers found the body of a white male in his 20s in a single tent at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival campgrounds around noon today, authorities said. The body has not been identified, but it was enroute this afterno

  June 16, 2009

• Road to Bonnaroo on WPLN

  Steve CrossIf you've been following Cream or reading the Scene at all, you know we were pretty psyched about the Road to Bonnaroo 8 off 8th series at Mercy Lounge, which sent The Features, The Protomen and Heypenny to Bonnaroo. Today, Nashville NPR affiliate WPLN aired a feature by Craig Havighurst on the RTB phenomenon. Followers of the Nashville rock scene say the Road To Bonnaroo did stir up fresh energy and hometown pride, with fans packing every night of the contest, where audiences and ex

  June 18, 2009

• Les Claypool at War Memorial Auditorium

  July 2, 2009

• Kings of Leon Certified Platinum

  Two's a trend, right? First Paramore, now Kings of Leon rock open those platinum gates, for so long rusted shut for any rock act out of Music City. Perhaps it's time to consider the Nashville Curse broken forever. Who'd've thunk it? From the release: RCA Records is proud to announce the RIAA certified platinum status of Kings of Leon's fourth studio album Only By The Night. This is the first platinum record for the band in the United States. This fall, the Grammy Award-winning band will embark

  July 22, 2009

• Next Big Nashville Teams Up With Warped Tour

  VersaEmerge bring the emo to Next Big NashvilleThe band you see at the right is NOT Paramore, at least not in name. They're called VersaEmerge, and they're a symptom of the Paramore virus. They're playing Next Big Nashville along with this band from Boston. VersaEmerge is from Florida--a state that, last I checked, hadn't produced a good band since Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers--and they're the latest rising stars to join the Fueled by Ramen roster. Fueled by Ramen is the label that, among oth

  September 9, 2009

• Fall Guide: Music Festivals: In its fourth year, Next Big Nashville raises the bar and goes for it

  September 17, 2009

• Bonnaroo 2010: Which Bands Are Playing? Me Neither! Pants on the Ground!

  Start building up your tolerance (to hippies).Are you ready to find out who's playing Bonnaroo 2010? We won't know for a few weeks. But for those of you making your chair all hot thinking about it, check out this entry from the Department of Wild Speculation, which attempts to predict which artists will (and will not) play Manchester in 2010 by sifting through Internet rumors, message board chatter, tea leaves, the distribution of Paul Blart: Mall Cop on Netflix queues and The Farmer's Almanac.

  January 18, 2010

• Road to Bonnaroo 8 off 8th at Mercy Lounge

  February 18, 2010

• Advice to the Graduate: SXSW Cherry Pop

  Image via Wired.​This week, both Adam Goldy-Poo and D. Patsy Rodgers are headed to Austin's annual taco-tastic, beer-laden "music" festival, SXSW. They are dudes in bands, dudes who've seen tons of shows, dudes who've played tons of shows, and dudes who've covered tons of shows. But they've never covered SXSW. And now they're about to embark on a journey of sizzling hipster throngs and unrivaled musician spottings and tons of swag and all the temptations and headaches involved in bringing toge

  March 16, 2010