Right now someone in Manchester, Tennessee is desperately searching for their car keys.  Or their friends.  Or their favorite pair of sunglasses.  Or their minds.  It’s amazing the things one can lose over a four-day period on a 700-acre farm jam packed with close to 80,000 people and over 100 bands scheduled to perform.  That was the scene at Bonnaroo 2008 as tens of thousands of music fans descended on central Tennessee for what has become America’s biggest music festival as well as one of the biggest money-making music festivals in the world.

Now I don’t know how many C’ville folks made it down to Bonnaroo ‘08, but if you did go, braving the crowds, the weather, and the late nights, we’ll be asking you for your first hand accounts in just a few moments.  As you may have guessed I did not attend.  I won’t say that I’ve personally given up on the mega-music festival (I attended San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival last October which drew an estimated 500,000 festival goers) but in recent years I’ve been drawn to the smaller, lesser known, and more intimate music gatherings.  Ultimately I have yet to attend Bonnaroo and unless the Fates set me up with backstage passes and a paid assignment to cover the precedings, I can’t really imagine ever seeing the festival first hand.

In preparation for writing this post, I’ve scanned the inter-web for reports from the blogosphere and media outlets and I’ve gathered some of the highlights after the jump.  But before all that… »Read More

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Well between my slow moving Monday (resulting from one too many games of wiffleball) and yesterday’s sick day (thankfully I’m feeling much better), we’ve got a little catching up to do on music-related happenings. 

So in an effort to get everyone up to speed, I thought I’d take this opportunity to put together a few of the noted items you may be interested in, including an interview with Ann McDaniel, director of the Dave Matthews Band fan association, from our friends over at The Butter Room, as well as a brief In Memorium for rock legend Bo Diddley, who passed away earlier this week. 

But we begin with one of the summer’s biggest music festivals, Bonnaroo, and we let you know how you can win a free pair of tickets from one local Charlottesville radio station. »Read More

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