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Bonnaroo 2006 Day Three

It's Saturday morning at Bonnaroo, and my friends and I are sitting under a shady spot at That Tent, waiting for Swedish psych-metal stars Dungen to take the stage. A pretty girl from Alabama gently touches my back, which has become a scaly wreck of red patches juxtaposed against the fish-white skin covered by my halter straps. "Oh my God...
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Dungen

Bonnaroo 2006 Day One

It's sundown on Thursday night in Manchester, Tennessee, the first day of the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival. Right now, more than 80,000 people are driving through the small, sleepy town on their way to the pig farm that hosts one of North America's biggest summer festivals — and not everyone is happy about it. "This is...
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Marah

Bonnaroo 2006 Day Four

I find my way back to my tent by early morning and get changed for my last day at Bonnaroo. On the way back to Centeroo, everyone is looking visibly wasted. People are getting desperate for a number of things: a shower, clean clothes, edible food and, most of all, drugs. I hear rumours of a guy wearing a sandwich board that says "I Need Acid...
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Streets

Bonnaroo 2006 Day Two

It's impossible to sleep once sunrise hits at Bonnaroo. Our tent becomes so oppressively hot that I'm forced out of it at 6 a.m. to tear off my drenched clothing. I'm amused to see other campers doing the same. I'm not into this hippie "community" stuff, but at Bonnaroo I feel united with my fellow attendees in a brotherhood of filth...
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Tom Petty

I Read The News Today... For June 17, 2011

 Those of you who are still stuck in 2005 can check out a new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah track below. "Same Mistake" will appear on their new Hysterical album, which is out Sept. 20. Liam Gallagher is not attending Noel Gallagher's wedding because he's touring with Beady Eye. Convenient excuse. Man, their mum's...
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2011

Tom Hanks' production company is going to make a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot musical, which basically ensures it's going to be the least punk rock thing ever, even with Billie Joe Armstrong starring in it. Thurston Moore is going to be teaching writing classes at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, which is not a fake place...
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Green Day

I Read The News Today... For June 13, 2011

Hey, Harold Camping! The Rapture is here! ...Wait, is this why he had a stroke? He thought the Rapture was really here, but it was just a new song by the band? The only thing that could possibly make Korn's music worse? A Korn dubstep album. Toronto photographer Colin Medley's releasing a new book called All I Want Is More Than I Ever...
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The Rapture

I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2011

The good folks behind The MuseBox have put together a North By Northeast mixtape featuring all their artists that are showcasing at the festival. You're welcome. Get the fuck away from Star Wars, Fred Durst. This is just wrong: If you need to hear some good ol' fashioned back porch exorcisin' tunes this summer, The Schomberg Fair may be...
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Limp Bizkit

I Read The News Today... For June 9, 2011

Snoop Dogg's been added to the list of presenters at this year's MuchMusic Video Awards. If you're wandering around the Much building on June 19 and you want to find him, all you need to do is move towards the stench of pot and you're good. Actor Colin Farrell (London Boulevard, Onedine) will also hand someone one of these newfangled trophies:...
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Snoop Dogg

I Read The News Today... For May 17, 2011

City And Colour have been added to Scotland's T In The Park festival, which takes place July 8 to 10. SWOOOOOOOOOOON, British boys and girls! Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Sevendust, Black Tide, Art Of Dying and The Black Cloud Collective are among those who'll play this year's Rockstar...
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City And Colour's Dallas Green

I Read The News Today... For May 16, 2011

All Time Low have announced a bunch of tour dates that'll take them across North America this spring and summer. Those of you who are groaning should count yourselves lucky: at least it's not Odd Future. Arcade Fire will play this year's Austin City Limits festival in Austin, Texas. It takes place Sept. 16 to 18 at the city's Zilker Park....
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All Time Low

Bonnaroo 2011 To Feature Arcade Fire, Eminem, Strokes, Buffalo Springfield(!)

You kiddies who enjoy festivals with a jammier bent will be happy to know that the lineup for this year's Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival has been announced.Eminem, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Lil Wayne, My Morning Jacket, The Black Keys and Widespread Panic will headline the festival, which takes place June 9 to 12 at Manchester, Tenn.'s Great...
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Arcade Fire

I Read The News Today... For Nov. 18, 2010

OMG, like, now that Avril's officially divorced, she can get married again to, like, whoever she wants!!!1124 —TMZ It's like 2003 all over again! The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and Snow Patrol will headline Rock In Rio 2011, which goes down Sept. 23 to Oct. 2 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. —rockinrio.com.br Acts won't be announced for a while...
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Avril Lavigne

Bonnaroo 2010 Day 4: Phoenix At Sunset Is The Perfect Ending

The final day at Bonnaroo 2010 saw a few fans and press people packing up and leaving at scattered intervals throughout the day. This is not to sell the last day of Bonnaroo short, but after three days of porta-potties, poor sleep, body odor and a general underlying smell of compost surrounding the grounds it wasn't hard to feel the lure of...
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Japandroids (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Bonnaroo 2010 Day 3: Tough Choices And Late Night Gwar Goo

Saturday was by far the toughest musical day for Bonnaroo 2010. How does one decide on seeing The Dead Weather over The Avett Brothers over The Melvins over Mumford & Sons over Weezer over Jeff Beck? All these bands are awesome in their own unique way, and I wanted to see all of them in entirety, as I'm sure many others in attendance also...
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Weezer (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Bonnaroo 2010 Day 2: Flaming Lips' Dark Side Of The Moon Is Must-See

I'm typing the majority of this review back at my campsite — as Michael Franti & Spearhead play the last few songs of their set. There's a pocket of two-and-a-half hours between Franti and The Flaming Lips' midnight performance in which the only band playing is Kings Of Leon. And while I mean no disrespect to the Kings, after you've seen them...
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Bonnaroo 2010 Day 1: The XX Graduate To Big Leagues

As part of my 15-hour pilgrimage to Bonnaroo 2010, I found myself driving through one of the worst thunderstorms I've ever seen just outside of Nashville. It was all too apparent how Nashville could have gotten so flooded just a few weeks ago, as visibility went to almost zero due to the heavy rain. Cars started putting their hazard lights on...
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The XX (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Kings Of Leon, Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder Headlining Bonnaroo 2010

The lineup for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is beginning to take shape... sllllllloooooowwwwwlllllly. The folks behind the Manchester, Tenn.-based festival have been revealing the lineup one band at a time through their Twitter (hey, they have to upstage Coachella somehow, right?) and MySpace. Here's what we can tell you so far...
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Kings Of Leon

Bonnaroo Festival Dates Announced

The 2010 Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival will take place June 10 to 13 in Manchester, Tenn. No artists have been announced for next year's festival yet, but a holiday presale starts next Friday (Nov. 27) through the Bonnaroo website. They'll run you $209.50 as part of the presale. After they're sold out, the prices will be raised to $224.50,...
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Bruce Springsteen

Bonnaroo 2009: Day Three — Ben Harper & Relentless7

Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
The Other Tent
City: 
Manchester, TN
Date: 
June 13, 2009
Ben Harper & Relentless7
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