Bonnaroo: Thursday’s Music Highlights

Though the bands playing Thursday evening at Bonnaroo may seem like a warm-up for the heavyweights of the weekend (Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, etc.), the group held their own and opened the festival weekend with guns blazing.  The likes of The XX, Wale, Local Natives, and LA Riots rocked the festival-goers ready to venture into the grounds for the first time.  Here’s the rundown of our trek through the night:

Miike Snow @ This Tent, 7:30 PM

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This entry was written by Jonathan Fritz, posted on June 11, 2010 at 8:48 pm, filed under Live and tagged . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Bonnaroo: Day One

Bonnaroo is a weekend-long, camping-based music festival based in an otherwise-obscure town outside of Nashville, and right now, it’s very happy to greet us.

We landed in Manchester, Tennessee at around 7:00 in the morning for check-in, and it’s now getting close to 5:00pm.  We haven’t left the car yet, but instead, find ourselves at mile marker 126: a good five or six markers beyond the festival’s entrance – all of which we’ve crawled in the car, one inch at a time.  And I should hardly complain – compared to the journeys of most everyone else attending, St. Louis is a paltry 6 hour drive.

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