The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival lineup has been announced with several big and up-and-coming names from hip-hop expected to perform. R. Kelly, Wu-Tang Clan, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and A$AP Rocky are just some of the names on the bill.
Yesterday, as my KPM proficiency was put to the test transcribing the Bonnaroo Lineup Announcement Megathon, this dawned on me: booking Bonnaroo must be a lot more difficult than booking Coachella. Just think about it: Coachella takes places in April,
Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons and Tom Petty will headline at Bonnaroo, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vampire Weekend and the Avett Brothers will lead the bill at the Firefly music festival.
Unlike Coachella, who had us waiting in suspense for weeks -- analyzing the economics of the festival industry and trying to divine insight from fake posters --
Mumford & Sons, fresh off its album of the year win at the Grammy Awards, return to Bonnaroo after a memorable 2011 second-stage performance that stretched more than an hour, drew friends Old Crow Medicine Show and had fans hanging off fences to get
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