Atoms For Peace Amok XL Recordings Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 5) Album Stream: For those of you who aren’t aware, Atoms For Peace is a kind of supergroup side project spearheaded by Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke. For the past few years, the band, which also includes Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Red Hot Chili [...]
How did Radiohead go from that “Creep” band to the group often hailed as the saviors of rock and roll? If you’re looking for one key song, it just might be “Fake Plastic Trees,” a majestic, yearning ballad found on their second LP, 1995’s The Bends. The song, which was chosen for the first US [...]
American Songwriter At Bonnaroo: Reports From The Field
We’ll be blogging the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee all weekend. Keep checking back for coverage of your favorite bands. The Most Interesting Tweets From Bonnaroo (So Far) Wednesday In Pictures: Bonnaroo Begins The Alabama Shakes Shake Things Up At Bonnaroo Photos: Highlights From Bonnaroo, Day 1 More Day 1 Photos Bonnaroo Friday In [...]
Radiohead Give Cerebral, Challenging Performance at Bonnaroo
RADIOHEAD Every June, the tiny town of Manchester transforms into Tennessee’s seventh-largest city, thanks to a sudden influx of 80,000 Bonnaroo attendees. And every Friday night, most of those 80,000 people crowd their way into the crescent-shaped field that faces the festival’s biggest stage, turning that single field into a city all by itself. It’s [...]
Bonnaroo Reveals Webcast Schedule: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and More
If you can’t make it to Bonnaroo this year, you can still catch a good portion of it from the comfort of your couch. There’s less chance of heat exhaustion, and the sound is always crystal clear. Here’s the official Bonnaroo Webcast schedule on YouTube, which includes headliners Radiohead, Phish and Red Hot Chili Peppers [...]
The Top Ten Artists We’re Excited To See At Bonnaroo
Last week, Bonnaroo unveiled the preliminary lineup for the summer festival’s 2012 installment (and their 11th overall). The sprawling outdoor event, which encompasses a stretch of farm in Manchester, TN, will run from June 7 – 10. Out of the 120-plus artists on this year’s docket, here are the ten we’re most psyched to see. [...]
Bonnaroo is less than two weeks away, and the fans aren’t the only one’s gearing up for the event. American Songwriter Magazine sat in on a conference call Wednesday with Alice Cooper, Leslie Feist and Jack Antonoff of fun., where the artists talked about their plans for the festival. Cooper said that he is excited [...]
This year’s highly anticipated Bonnaroo schedule has been posted on the Manchester, Tennessee festival’s official Website. Radiohead will headline Friday, June 8, which will also see performances from St. Vincent, Feist, and Dawes. Saturday will be headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, and will see sets from Blind Pilot, Punch Brothers, The Roots, the still-mysterious [...]
Punch Brothers play the Billy Reid Shindig on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Swan Dive. Click here to RSVP. Read reviews and get a free download of tracks from each of our Shindig artists, including the Punch Brothers’ “Movement And Location,” by downloading our Sampler. We recently chatted with banjoist Noam Pikelny about the song, [...]