The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day annual music festival recently named “Best Festival” by Rolling Stone Magazine, calling it "the ultimate over-the-top summer festival." The festival is held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles southeast of Nashville, Tennessee. The main attractions of the festival are the multiple stages of live music, featuring a diverse array of musical styles including indie folk, world music, hip hop, jazz, americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, electronica, and other alternative music. The festival began with a primary focus on jam bands, but has diversified greatly in recent years.
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Drive By Truckers Co-founded by Patterson Hood and longtime friend Mike Cooley, The Drive-By Truckers is unique due to its “three axe attack,” or three guitars as well as bass and drums. Their lyrics often revolve around drifters and criminals trying to survive in economically-depressed small towns.
Fiery Furnaces The Fiery Furnaces is made up of brother and sister Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. Their most recent album, Widow City, has been described as having a seventies rock feel and devoid of a central concept, a change from their earlier efforts.
Umphrey's McGee UM’s invention brings the progressive instrumental chops of Zappa and the stylistic savvy of Steely Dan. It is innovative without being indulgent, exhilarating without losing control, and there are plenty of improv passages that keep the band and their fans off-balance.
The Raconteurs When news broke of their debut album in early 2006 they described themselves as “a new band made up of old friends”, consisting of Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler, Jack “LJ” Lawrence and Jack White. Their latest release “Consolers of the Lonely” is a continuation of the successful collaboration.
Swell Season The Frames front man, Glen Hansard teamed up with vocalist and pianist Marketa Irgolva to produce an album of affecting songs and compositions. The Swell Season aims to deal with the pains and hopes of those struggling to make sense of their lives.
Les Claypool Is a bassist best known for his work with the band Primus. His mastery of the electric bass has brought him into the spotlight with his funky, creative playing style which mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like strumming, and a slap technique.
Metallica Since they formed in 1981, San Francisco Bay Area band Metallica have gone from an underground heavy metal band to one of the most successful acts in the world, with an intensely loyal fan base. Their success can be attributed to a passion and no-compromise attitude in every project they undertake.
Two Gallants Though they both grew up in San Francisco, Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel of Two Gallants have pushed each other into a unique spectrum of music. They craft emotional, visceral, intelligent songs that remind us of America's folk, country, and blues traditions but are fueled with the energy of punk.
The Wood Brothers With their album, Loaded, the Wood Brothers engage in a larger musical dialogue that commenced well before they hit the studio; they collaborated for the first time on writing material together. John Medeski, returning as producer, got into the mix, and he plays keyboards on several tracks.
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings With extensive songwriting and arranging contributions from all of the members of the band, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings create songs that are distinct and well-crafted in form, enabling a deep and soulful return to traditional Rhythm and Blues roots.
Ozomatli Ozomatli’s most recent album, Street Signs, is both a mature testament to the band's nearly decade-long evolution and a fresh, dance floor-rocking reminder of their commitment to creating original music in the face of industry conservatism.
Gogol Bordello Gogol Bordello is supercharged music based on a brutal gypsy two step rhythm that sounds like an Eastern European cousin of ska, augmented by punk, metal, rap, flamenco, roots reggae, Italian spaghetti, Western twang, dub and other sounds generated by gypsies and rebels from across the globe.
Against Me! For the past five years Against Me! Has been churning out a distinctive blend of punk, rock, and even folk that is impossible to label, and has toured all the 50 states and foreign lands from Iceland to Australia, forging an intense connection with their growing legions of fans.
Iron & Wine While many of us learned of Iron and Wine by way of Sam Beam’s tender and spare rendering of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” on the Garden State soundtrack, those who dug deeper discovered a classic American tunesmith with a precocious musical signature.
Cat Power Cat Power is the nom de rock of Chan Marshall. Her second album of cover songs is a tribute to the great vocalists that have inspired her. It also includes two originals: "Song To Bobby" evokes Dylan in both style and content, and a new sense of triumph pervades her revisit to 2000's "Metal Heart".
Mastodon The band formed in 1999 after ex-Lethargy and ex-Today Is The Day members Dailor and Bill Kelliher moved from Rochester, New York to Atlanta. One night, during a High On Fire show, the two met ex-Four Hour Fogger bassist Sanders and guitarist Hinds and started talking underground metal.
Ben Folds Ben Folds is best known as a solo artist and as the frontman and pianist of Ben Folds Five, celebrated for a compositional style and playing technique remain wholly unique, combining elements of the 'singer/songwriter' genre, jazz, and power rock.
Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet The music of Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet is is raw and highly composed, equally hopeful and acutely aware of the struggle of life. Music for the global citizen. Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet will begin their first major touring of the US and abroad in the spring of 2008.
Donavon Frankenreiter Over the course of the past half-decade, the California-bred Frankenreiter has established himself as one of the more original voices on the acoustic-rock scene, through tireless touring and the innate catchiness of songs like “Free”.
Robert Randolph's Revival Randolph's concerts are known for their lively stage performances, with Randolph content to let the rest of the band play on while he dances. Highly encouraged audience participation will make this a show not to be missed.
Yonder Mountain String Band The always progressive Yonder Mountain continues to close the gap between bluegrass and rock. Their dueling electric guitar/banjo solo sections have the goods to turn people on to a new way of thinking about how a banjo can be played.
Rogue Wave Rogue Wave began in 2002, when Zach Rogue recorded some of the songs that had been kicking around in his head. After initially self-recording and self-releasing the album, Out Of The Shadow, Rogue Wave became a full band and found a home on Sub Pop Records, who reissued the album to widespread acclaim.
Broken Social Scene For one year, Broken Social Scene was whoever showed up, playing whatever was written the day before. Chaos theory as applied to indie rock. After many lineup changes, the band has released it’s third album which is messy, overrun, irregular but spirited, passionate, honest and hopeful.
Sigur Ros 13 years into their career, Iceland's Sigur Rós have become one of the world's biggest cult bands. While details of the musicians behind the music remain almost deliberately sketchy, what they have created over the course of four albums has become quietly ubiquitous.
Death Cab For Cutie The band takes its name from a satirical song of the same name, written by Vivian Stanshall and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla and in the Beatles' experimental movie, Magical Mystery Tour. The band has released eight albums to date.
