My Bonnaroo Diary
Day 1 Eden Prairie, MN 9:14 AM With hundreds of performances on more than nine stages, and roughly 80,000 music-loving and sweaty bodies, the 9th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will dominate four days of the hot Manchester, Tennessee summer. Bring it on! Farewell Minnesota, Tennessee beckons. I’m heading to Bonnaroo with my friend Scott. This is the fourth music related road trip I have embarked on with this… continue reading
Jun 24 2010
Nateva, Here We Come!
With Bonnaroo, SXSW, Sound Set, Coachella and all of those big name festivals behind us, it’s time for something a little more fresh- a little more down to earth. Nateva is the answer to what we’re looking for. Maine’s first Music and Camping festival, Nateva is bringing artists such as The Flaming Lips and Grizzly Bear to Oxford, Maine for a Fourth of July weekend unlike any other. In isolated… continue reading
Lunchrooms
What if the music industry was broken down into a high school lunchroom? Where would everyone sit? What would the cliques be? We at Tastemakers sat down and mapped out our guide to the Music Lunchroom! The Hard Groove Table- John Scofield, Charlie Hunter, Medeski Martin and Wood, Soulive, and Lettuce. With the exception of Lettuce, the Berklee born funk super group, they’ve all been on Blue Note Records at… continue reading
Jun 22 2010
She & Him
Since She & Him’s Volume One was released almost two years ago, I have been anticipating Volume Two. When I found out that Zooey Deschanel could really sing, my already overwhelming girl crush basically imploded. The album quickly became the only one on rotation in my car, on my iPod and in my head. If I had been smart enough to buy the vinyl, let’s just say it would have been reduced… continue reading