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Bonnaroo 2011 – Saturday report

By Jon Stone I’ve been thinking about late-night sets all day. Bonnaroo is famous for them, but seriously, I don’t see how people manage. Like tonight, there’s some really cool stuff going on at, like, two and three in the morning. I’m convinced that only the very young, the completely wasted, and those who can [...]

Bonnaroo preview

By Jon Stone I’m driving out to Bonnaroo on Wednesday to participate again in the great outdoor music fesitval paradox. I mean, of course, the incredible experience of seeing band after band that you love paired with hour after hour of high temperatures, humidity, sun exposure and standing fatigue.  I’ve packed my sunscreen though, as [...]

Review: Summer Camp Festival – Chillicothe, IL

by Jon Stone | @jwstone I got a speeding ticket when I was about five miles from Three Sisters Park, the site just north of Peoria, IL where Summer Camp Music Festival has been held every year for the past ten. I was going nine over the posted 45-miles-per-hour speedlimit but there was a nice [...]

Review: Thile & Daves – Sleep with One Eye Open

By Jon Stone | @jwstone grass|roots ep. 9 When I first started writing the grass|roots column last year, it was with the admission of my limited knowledge in the “genre” and that part of my interest in writing about the genre is the way that one great discovery leads to the next. Though I have [...]

grass|roots :: four acoustic acts for your consideration

By Jon Stone | @jwstone grass|roots ep. 7 The year is fading quickly. Soon you will be bombarded with lists a plenty, including several here, declaring the top ArcadeKanyeNationalSufjan records of the year. Before that, however, I wanted to throw down a final four records from 2010 that fit somewhere within the wide net I’ve [...]