Bonnaroo Reviewed: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

With her crack band in tow, the soulful songstress shakes through a mid-day set and enlivens crowds with bounding stage presence and grooving tunes.
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings / Photo by Eric Nowels

Just when it seemed Saturday couldn't get any hotter, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings took to Bonnaroo's Which stage, grooving and popping their way through an hour-long set that had even the stiffest fans shaking like there was no one looking.

Bonnaroo Reviewed: The Avett Brothers

Southern kin lead a rowdy hootenanny at the Other Tent with raucous bluegrass-meets-punk tunes.
Photo by Lucy Hamblin

Concord, North Carolina's Avett Brothers drew a massive (and especially rowdy) crowd to Bonnaroo's Other Tent Saturday, picking and stomping their punk-tinged bluegrass into the stratosphere and proving why they just may be one of the most underrated acts at this year's festival.

Bonnaroo Reviewed: The Fiery Furnaces

The siblings Friedberger touch Bonnaroo -- and want to be touched back.
Photo by Lucy Hamblin

Brooklyn's Fiery Furnaces kicked their epic indie-pop into full gear Friday afternoon as dedicated fans began filtering into Bonnaroo's stage compound, amassing beneath the shade of That Tent and basking in the cool breeze that foreshadowed the rain to come.

Bonnaroo Reviewed: The Felice Brothers

The Felice Brothers open up a bottle of whiskey and soak the Bonnaroo faithful.
Photo by Lucy Hamblin

Maybe it was the anticipation of waiting for half an hour, or maybe it was the booze...or maybe it was the opening song about booze, but whatever the reason, the Felice Brothers were greeted by thunderous applause and an already energized crowd Thursday night.

Fan Reviews: The Big Sleep at Bonnaroo

We poll the fans after the Big Sleep's Thursday set to see what they thought of the Brooklyn trio.

Brooklyn three-piece the Big Sleep wasted no time getting things going Thursday afternoon, kicking off their set, one of Bonnaroo's first, with a screeching intro that was the perfect precursor to the hour of chaotic, pounding psychedelia to come.

The Felice Brothers

Bonnaroo ’08 performer! Upstate New York-bred outfit channel Americana’s greats into a backwoods tableau all their own.

What? Taking cues from their larger-than-life Americana predecessors, namely Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, the Felice Brothers specialize in boozy, rambling tales of backwoods nostalgia told in rootsy piano, guitar, and drum renderings.

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