Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival , which took place from Thursday, June 14 through Sunday, June 17 in Manchester, Tennessee, was four full-on days of camping, concerting, carousing, and various chemicals. The first night began with the National playing a set culled from their Best New Music-earning LP, , and at midnight, Rodrigo y Gabriela s dueling guitars closed out the first day. Friday s lineup was bulkier, with daytime sets by Hot Chip and the Brazilian Girls, an evening of Lily Allen and the Black Keys, and the annual Superjam-- this year composed of the Roots ?
uestlove, John Paul Jones, and Ben Harper pounding out Zeppelin covers. Photos of all of these bands-- plus the Black Angels and the Little Ones-- lie ahead. Stay tuned for part two, which recaps Saturday and Sunday.
[Photo by Mitch Manzella] [Photo by Matt Jordan] [Photos by Matt Jordan] Posted by Pitchfork Staff in festival, photos on Mon: 06-18-07: 04:41 PM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink -- having already announced his intentions to leave the band-- has been hospitalized for nearly a month now with pneumonia.
As of a June 1 on Lloyd s website, the man had been in an intensive care unit at an unspecified hospital for eight days. This has responded to treatment and he has shown some improvement and is now free of the breathing apparatus, the post said. Lloyd had revealed prior (in the third person) that his June 16 performance with Television at would be his last with the band.
Another Lloyd-signed post read, After the possible SummerStage show, Richard Lloyd will, after 34 years, be amicably severing all ties with the band Television, in order that he may concentrate his magnetic force and supernatural energies upon his own career in support of his forthcoming record, due out in the fall. Lloyd did not, however, appear this past weekend with Television. According to several reports, Television frontman disclosed during the band s set that Lloyd is still in fact in the hospital.
It remains to be seen whether Lloyd-- provided he receives a clean bill of health anytime soon-- will wish to reschedule his last hurrah with Television, or simply move on and focus on his own band, the Sufi Monkeys. As Lloyd would have it, however, Television would be kaput after this weekend. To the fans of Television, wrote Lloyd in his valedictory message, from the very first show at the townhouse Theatre on March 4, 1974 till the hopeful last show here in New York at the SummerStage.
..thank you for your support over these many years.
I hope to see you follow both my own and the other members of the band in their own solo efforts for many more years to come. Thanks to reader for the tip. : Marquee Moon (Live at Central Park Summerstage) Posted by Matthew Solarski in injury, gossip on Mon: 06-18-07: 04:03 PM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.
icio.us | Permalink has been shedding personnel left and right this year, with the latest round hitting on Friday. Unfortunately, one of the casualties of Friday s layoffs was Slim Moon, who worked in A R for the Warner label (home to Wilco, the Black Keys, the Magnetic Fields, and more).
, Moon had taken the Nonesuch job last fall, after leaving his position as head of , the label he founded and ran from 1991 through 2006. Moon had only been at Nonesuch for a few months before his job was eliminated. Right now, Moon says he is weighing his options and figuring out what his next step will be.
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