Bonnaroo 2012's defining singalong moment came late in the festival, which wrapped up last night in Manchester, Tenneesee.
Bad news for Black Sabbath fans: Bill Ward will not be playing drums at any of the group's three gigs scheduled this year.
Singer/songwriter LP reflects on singing as a child, writing songs and how a ukulele helped her career.
There's a moment, when singer LP performs the song "Into the Wild," that her face tightens and she purses her lips, even as she keeps singing. It happened show after show at the South by Southwest music festival, whether on sunny daytime stages, in dark clubs, or while rocking a ukulele, solo, in the middle of an Austin, Texas, street. She is trying not to smile.
Metallica, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young and Crazy Horse will anchor the 2012 edition of Outside Lands, to be held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on August 10-12.
CNN Music used Twitter to find one lucky band, Royal Teeth, at SXSW, to showcase to the world.
Anyone expecting outspoken rocker Bruce Springsteen to spend his keynote address here at the South by Southwest music conference talking about his new No. 1 album or the politically divided state of the country may have gotten a surprise.
CNN's Ivan Watson describes how social media played a part in Syria and Libya during a South by Southwest discussion.
Sohaib Athar, the IT consultant who tweeted the Osama bin Laden raid, is a guest at the CNN Grill at South by Southwest.
South by Southwest, the tech-music-movie conference getting under way here Friday, isn't typically a place for big newsy announcements. The indie ethos of SXSW is more about discovering the hot emerging thing -- a new mobile app, a bold filmmaker, a brilliant set by an undiscovered band.
For first-timers, South by Southwest Interactive can be a little intimidating.
The tech world is descending upon Austin for the South by Southwest Interactive conference -- an annual gathering of tech influencers for a fast-paced week of panels, networking, and yes -- parties.
It's just over a week until one of the biggest geek gatherings of the year, South By Southwest Interactive, kicks off in Austin, Texas.
South by Southwest is right around the corner, and Coachella's already prepping its polo grounds for a two-weekend extravaganza, which means it's time to look forward to that third major warm-climate festival: Bonnaroo.
The newlywed showed off temporary ink that pays homage to the couple's vows
With 270,000 concertgoers rocking out in Grant Park, the Windy City was the place to be last weekend
From choosing the right festival to tips on camping and pacing yourself through the shows, here's (almost) everything you'll need to know about preparing for your next music festival.
Four days, 12 stages, 175 acts, 700 acres of land -- the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is thriving in its tenth year.
Best of Bonnaroo
updated: Wed Jun 08 2011 15:48:00
Take a look back at the best moments from the Bonnaroo music festival.
Since forming in 1998, Louisville, Kentucky-based My Morning Jacket has become one of America's most beloved rock bands, criss-crossing the country for years on tour.
Grab your tent and your sunglasses -- the summer music festival season is upon us once again.
This year's Fuji Rock Festival in Japan could be the most difficult for Masahiro Hidaka.
CNN's John Vause looks at how tourism has been crippled in Japan by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
The population of New Orleans isn't big enough that local bands can play to a new crowd every week, so when New Orleans musicians want to make money and new fans, they usually hit the road.
One heat-soaked afternoon last month, hipsters and cowboys shirked a music festival schedule loaded with sparkle and distraction and instead shuffled into a dim convention center ballroom.
The Lollapalooza festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary this summer with a three-day event at Chicago's Grant Park on August 5-7th with headliners Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse and My Morning Jacket.
This weekend more than 100,000 people will take in a music festival experience near Palm Springs, California, at The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
"The State I'm In" columnist Brendan Newnam recently spent time in Austin, Texas during the SXSW conference and festival.
Jason Travis and CNN iReport took portraits for the Persona Project in Austin at South by Southwest 2011.
Who: William "whurley" Hurley of Austin, Texas
Technologist William Hurley of Chaotic Moon Studios explains how disruptive innovation hurts invention.
South by Southwest is a long, winding "spring break!" (yelled in frat-boy fashion) for tech nerds and music fans alike. The fest has since wrapped, leaving attendees with glowing memories, emotional and physical scars and suitcases bursting with ripe clothing.
Among the 18,000 attendees who descended on Austin this week for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive gathering were hundreds of venture capitalists and angel investors, prowling through the city in search of the next breakout tech invention.
From Mike Tyson to innovative technology, take a look at some photos from CNN's time at SXSW.
It's the festival that launched Foursquare and popularized Twitter.
Every March, thousands of young, jeans-wearing techies, filmmakers and musicians descend upon Austin, Texas, harboring dreams of getting noticed and hitting it big.
Location-based social networks Foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt have collectively raised almost $50 million in funding from investors, and racked up around 13 million users.
Groupon and Twitter aren't worth billions.
A crowded, sprawling event is the perfect place to peddle an app that lets you cut through noise and find exactly the right thing at the right time. Enter Foodspotting.
Almost 2,000 miles from New York, a posse of the city's tech entrepreneurs gathered Sunday at an SXSW offshoot to network, recruit and pitch investors over beer.
The new iPads have landed -- and the throngs turned out to greet them.
For the next five days, Austin will be the epicenter of the tech universe.
On Thursday, I'll join more than 12,000 geeks on an annual pilgrimage to Austin, Texas. The "Interactive" portion of the South by Southwest festival -- referred to by attendees as "South by" or "SXSW" -- is akin to spring break for the technology crowd.
Morris Panner is the CEO of group text messaging service GroupFlier.
Six buses, 40 teams, 48 hours and one winning business idea: The StartupBus is as close to blood sport as Silicon Valley entrepreneurship gets.
Facebook is making a play for a piece of the small but much-buzzed-about group text messaging market. On Tuesday, it announced that it has acquired eight-month-old Beluga.
Felicia Day, creator and star of the cult-favorite web series "The Guild," will be a keynote speaker at the 2011 South by Southwest Interactive festival.
The singer gets wild at the music festival with Semi Precious Weapons singer Justin Tranter
The TV special will also feature performances by Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban
Over the past few years, the South by Southwest Interactive Festival has emerged as one of the most important events in the international new media landscape, bringing thousands of the industry's most creative thinkers to Austin, Texas, every March for five days of panels, networking and fun.
The country star will host a marathon meet-and-greet at June 13's CMA Music Festival
Time to slap on the sunscreen, print the "cubes" and head out to the fairgrounds for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
It was billed as the "location wars" -- a fight for the affections of the smartphone-wielding techie elite that converged on Austin this week for the South by Southwest Interactive festival.
For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.
It's billed as a showcase for the brightest minds in technology -- a place to network with industry leaders and see the latest Internet innovations.
On Friday, the major movers in the tech industry will gather in Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest Interactive Conference.
• In Chicago for Lollapalooza weekend, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr stopped into Rockit Bar & Grill for lunch. The Gossip Girl costars enjoyed truffle fries and vodka lemonades. "They were really cute and affectionate," a source says of the two, who also dined out with three friends. "They were there for awhile," the source adds, "just hanging out, eating and drinking."
Bonnaroo 2009updated: Thu Jun 25 2009 13:33:00
The 8th Annual Bonnaroo was headlined by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish, The Beastie Boys, and David Byrne.
It doesn't matter that they can be feverishly hot. Or that crowds make for long food lines or the tickets may be hard to come by.
The rocker and his wife will make 2-year-old son Ammon a big brother
At 71, two painful back surgeries have left Art Neville walking with a cane and a stiff gait. But if you put him down in front of a keyboard, his eyes light up and his fingers are as nimble as ever.
CNN's Fredricka Whitfield surprises Kyra and Sean during a quick trip to Jazz Fest.
While attending the first Louisiana Heritage Fair in Congo Square 40 years ago, legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and influential jazz artist Duke Ellington spontaneously led a brass band and crowd of second-line revelers on a parade through the festival grounds.
Parents danced with their young children to the infectious hip-hop beat of Lupe Fiasco on the main stage.
Watch a portion of Metallica's performance at SXSW.
CD sales are down. Digital hasn't caught up. Record companies are consolidating. New bands are trying to find their own way.
There's a never a dull moment in London -- the only problem is trying to keep up with it all... Here are some annual events you won't want to miss.
As you might expect, Miami's calendar of seasonal events makes the most of the Florida sunshine, but it also includes some top-notch cultural happenings.
Jazz has always been a popular form of music because its improvisatory nature is easily adapted by a community or nation to reflect its individual identity.
Love was in the windy city air and Lohan and Ronson spend the weekend at Lollapalooza and supporting DJ Mark Ronson
The rapper blames festival officials and Pearl Jam for his two-hour-late performance
At almost 8,500 feet in the Rockies, it can take a few breaths to walk up Central City's steep granite hills lined with Victorian homes, souvenir shops -- and an opera house that has served 19th-century gold miners as well as modern-day visitors.
We've all been there: the dull business conference. A half-empty room of half-asleep attendees answer their e-mail on laptops and BlackBerries, while some hapless speaker lumbers through a PowerPoint speech.
Counter-cultural rock festivals or family fun day? After traipsing around music festivals this summer, it seems to be the latter.
Festive spiritupdated: Thu Jun 28 2007 08:32:00
Summer is here and music festivals have become as much part of the season as picnics in the parks, long twilights, sticky weather and men who shouldn't -- but do -- wear shorts.
Leyla Safai is the owner of Heartschallenger (myspace.com/heartschallenger) in Los Angeles:
What do Hatebreed, Lamb of God and Lordi have in common? Apart from hair-raising names and a penchant for high-speed death metal, these three guitar-wielding bands are the only headliners so far to...
The Monterey Jazz Festival can't claim that it's the biggest or oldest jazz festival in the world, but it can claim the devotion of jazz royalty.
When Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana during the American summer last year, it left New Orleans in a shambles and musician Davell Crawford without a home.
Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs is often referred to as "Nobby's in the Lobby."
For every Lisa Simpson, tooting on her saxophone, there are dozens of Barts who prefer Game Boys and slingshots. But if the Simpsons' fictitious Springfield was revealed to be California's Monterey County, where jazz education thrives, even the spiky-haired prankster could be transformed into a cool jazz cat.
H. Johnson has pretty much heard it all.
Taking place on back-to-back summer weekends, the Bonnaroo and Telluride music festivals have one huge common thread in addition to many overlapping artists, says bluegrass guitarist Peter Rowan: music-loving audiences.
After striking a low note last year, the concert business is poised to sing.
The king of concerts in 2004 turned out to be a prince.
There's no escaping the rock 'n' roll circus that is the U.S. presidential election. Like rock stars, candidates perform in front of large audiences, conduct interviews, rake in large amounts of money, and, of course, tour for exposure.
Musicians tune up, cooks fire up and ticket holders line up as the Monterey Jazz Festival swings into its 47th year, and fans from around the world celebrate food, festivities and all that's jazz.
Marian McPartland, the legendary jazz pianist and host of National Public Radio's "Piano Jazz," returns this year to the Monterey Jazz Festival. She'll perform, and she'll also join panel discussions with musicians such as Clark Terry and Bill Charlap and jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood.
There is a world where Janet Jackson, Jessica Simpson and American Idol celebrity reject William Hung headline the same show. That place is the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, California, at the Wango Tango Music festival.
Woodstock was one of the defining cultural moments of the mass-media age, and the mere mention of it therefore brings to mind some very specific imagery. When you think of Woodstock, you think of p...
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