Animal Collective: a band I love to hear, but don’t always love to see. Frankly, if there’s not a great light show involved, there’s a good chance that I’m not going to be that into watching Animal Collective’s set. And true to form, Animal Collective’s Bonnaroo set sounded fantastic… but wasn’t much to watch. I [...]

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Let me inform you of Bonnaroo’s dark little secret. It’s the one thing that I hate about the festival. No matter how many great things you experience there, you’re always missing something mindblowingly cool. Whether it’s a breakout band you’re missing for a solid reunion act or an all-star Superjam you’re missing in favor of [...]

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For some reason I just wasn’t really into Passion Pit’s set. They closed out Thursday at Bonnaroo and my extreme tiredness could definitely have had something to do with my non-enthrallment. I only got one hour of sleep the night before and was wholeheartedly ready to pass out. I’d even made plans to check out [...]

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Even though I’ve listened to Chairlift’s album about half a dozen times, I still feel like I’m not really that familiar with their songs. There are really only two songs of theirs that I know. Even so, I really enjoyed their Bonnaroo set. They were one of the few bands that I had the time [...]

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I didn’t get to spend as much time with White Rabbits as I would have liked, but I enjoyed what I did get to see. Everything from their stage setup to their performance reminded me of watching Cold War Kids play Bonnaroo back in 2007. Add a little bit of Spoon’s sound (go figure, since [...]

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If you were to ask me who the most surprisingly good act I caught at Bonnaroo was, I’d hands-down have to say Janelle Monae. She was the first act I caught at Bonnaroo 2009 and the one that dropped my jaw the furthest. I wasn’t familiar with her music, but I knew she got the [...]

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More photos + review coming soon! The Beastie Boys’ set was my #1 most anticipated of Bonnaroo and they did not let me down. Unfortunately I only got to see the first four songs and the last 10 (so yeah, I missed the Nas appearance AND “Shake Your Rump.” Ugh). But luckily the internet is [...]

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I’m only slightly surprised to be loving the new Weird Al parody “Craigslist.” Mostly I’m digging it for just the general nerdiness of it, but also I dig the fact that he got Ray Manzarek to play keyboards on the song. Now that’s going out of your way to be awesome.

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St. Vincent was absolutely phenomenal at the Dame. I’ll share more thoughts about her live show in my upcoming Bonnaroo review and post the interview I did with her after the Lexington show, but for now here are a couple photos from that night to tide you over. Also, I’m pretty proud of you, Lexington. [...]

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