Photo Credit: Brian Hensley
The Scene
Over the last decade, no other US music festival has captured the spirit of large greenfield gatherings like the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Bonnaroo burst onto the scene grabbing headlines along with our hearts as we watched it grow from scrappy newcomer to a full fledged anchor of the summer. It may not be the oldest or the largest, but Bonnaroo is the spirit of the quintessential American music festival. Long live The Roo.
Festival Poster
2012 Artist Lineup
Bon Iver
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Skrillex
- Radiohead
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Phish
- The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks)
- Bon Iver
- The Avett Brothers
- The Shins
- Foster The People
- Skrillex
- Aziz Ansari
- Dispatch
- Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A
- Feist
- The Roots
- Alice Cooper
- Superjam
- Kenny Rogers
- Black Star
- DANZIG LEGACY — featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits
- Steven Wright
- The Word (John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars)
- Ludacris
- Ben Folds Five
- Flogging Molly
- Marc Maron
- Puscifer
- Mac Miller
- Brian Posehn
- Santigold
- Childish Gambino
- Reggie Watts
- The Temper Trap
- Major Lazer
- World Champion Judah Friedlander
- Tune-Yards
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- AfroCubism
- Flying Lotus
- Umphrey’s McGee
- Little Dragon
- Blind Pilot
- Rhys Darby
- St. Vincent
- City and Colour
- The Civil Wars
- Young The Giant
- Pedrito Martinez Group
- Two Door Cinema Club
- fun.
- GZA performing “Liquid Swords” backed by Grupo Fantasma
- Punch Brothers
- Spectrum Road (Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid)
- Needtobreathe
- Fitz & The Tantrums
- Colin Hay
- Bad Brains
- YelaWolf
- Dawes
- Battles
- Danny Brown
- The Black Lips
- SBTRKT
- Phantogram
- Big Gigantic
- Garfunkel & Oates
- Kendrick Lamar
- Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
- The Infamous Stringdusters
- The Kooks
- The Joy Formidable
- The Antlers
- Sam Bush Band
- Kathleen Edwards
- MiMosa
- KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
- Alabama Shakes
- Soja
- Das Racist
- The Dirty Guv’nahs
- Delta Spirit
- Red Baraat
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Pelican
- La-33
- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
- Laura Marling
- Trampled by Turtles
- Mogwai
- The War on Drugs
- Ben Howard
- GROUPLOVE
- Amy Schumer
- ALO
- The Devil Makes Three
- White Denim
- EMA
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Here We Go Magic
- The Chris Gethard Show
- Fruit Bats
- Khaira Arby & Her Band
- Pete Holmes
- The Cave Singers
- Rory Scovel
- K-Flay
- The Lonely Forest
- MARIACHI EL BRONX
- Debo Band
- Mike O’Connell
- Big Freedia
- DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR.
- The Soul Rebels
- Unchained “The Mighty Van Halen Tribute”
- Ali Wong
- Steven Bernstein’s MTO Plays SLY
- Sarah Jarosz
- Orgone
- Darondo
- Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang
- Moon Taxi
- Black Box Revelation
- Kyle Kinane
- Body Language (DJ Set)
- Brenton Duvall
- DJ Equal
- DJ XSV
- Jared Dietch
- Penguin Prison (DJ Set)
- Quickie Mart (DJ Set)
- Wyllys
- Art vs. Science
- Bethesda
- Bhi Bhiman
- By Lightning!
- Caitlin Rose
- Chappo
- Chuck Mead
- Clare and The Reasons
- Cherub
- Cosmic Suckerpunch
- The Deep Dark Woods
- Fort Atlantic
- Fly Golden Eagle
- Glossary
- Hey Rosetta!
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- huDost
- James Wallace & the Naked Light
- Jukebox the Ghost
- Katie Herzig
- LP
- Machines Are People Too
- Matt Sucich
- Marina Orchestra
- MonstrO
- Oberhofer
- Paladino
- Pujol
- Robert Ellis
- Robert Francis
- Rollin’ in the Hay
- Rubblebucket
- Sara Watkins
- Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds
- Shahidah Omar
- Tauk
- The Casey Driessen Singularity
- The Main Squeeze
- The Staves
- The Silent Comedy
- Trixie Whitley
- Valient Thorr
- Water Knot
- WE ARE AUGUSTINES
- Wild Cub
- Yuna