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Kanye Blogs With Fury

By Jim Shearer on 06/26/2008

Filed under: HODGEPODGE

And we thought Metallica was going to be the problem child at Bonnaroo. This whole story cracked me up. MORE »

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SUMMER FESTIVAL UPDATE '08: Bonnaroo

By Jim Shearer on 06/13/2008

One of the summer festival biggies is almost underway, Bonnaroo (Manchester, TN). This year the "hippe" festival is getting a little less hippier by the inclusion of Metallica, but fear not Birkenstock-wearing friends, Phil Lesh, Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket, Willie Nelson, and Jack Johsnon will provide sufficient flower power. Why is Bonnaroo one of the "biggies"? Well, if you're getting Robert Plant to play at your festival, you're not exactly in the minor leagues. MORE »

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IT'S LIKE THAT: Is Metallica Worthy of Hippie Love?

By Jim Shearer on 02/19/2008

Filed under: IT'S LIKE THAT

The lineup for the 2008 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (June 12-15) was recently announced. One act in particular caught my eye. It wasn't Jack Johnson, Pearl Jam, or even Kanye West -- it was Metallica. Yes, Creeping-Death-Bell-Tolling-Damage-Incorporated Metallica. Since its humble beginnings in 2002, Bonnaroo (in many music circles) has been referred to as "the hippie festival". Each year, I'd watch as my hippie friends and back-pack hip-hop comrades would leave home and venture down south to Manchester, Tennessee. For three days and nights, they would camp out with thousands of strangers on a 700-acre farm of mud. During... MORE »

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