Blog posts, slideshows, and more from Bonnaroo 2009  
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  June 19, 2009
 
  
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- Photos: Friday at Bonnaroo 2009
 Photos from Friday, June 12, 2009 at Bonnaroo 2009  
- Photos: Lollapalooza 2008
  Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Gnarls Barkley, Girl Talk, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Grizzly Bear, and more   
- Photos: Newport Jazz Festival
  Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian Scott, and more   
- A song to sing, O!
  Seiji Ozawa returns to the BSO, Boston Early Music Festival's 17th-century chamber operas, the Bostonians' Yeomen of the Guard   
- Contertizing
 Boston Lyric Opera follows up Dvorák’s moonstruck Rusalka, with Christopher Schaldebrand in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the BSO and much more.  
- Rogue wave
  These days, younger, wiser bands simply don't bat their eyelashes at the majors like they used to.   
- Things fall apart
  As hipster, electronic, indie-rock, and rap cultures converge, MCs are taking cues from their other-genre contemporaries who rely on everything from stage props and antics to self-mutilation in the quest to entertain.   
- Photos: Bonnaroo 2009
  Bruce Springsteen, Wilco, Elvis Costello, and more at Bonnaroo 2009 in Manchester, Tennessee   
- Photos: Sunday at Bonnaroo 2009
  Phish, Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, and more at Bonnaroo 2009   
- Trail of tunes
  The best summer music festivals take something from the season: the smell of the surf, the sight of the mountains, fireworks, lawn seating — or, at least, fried dough.   
- String vacation
   With the Portland Symphony's elimination of its popular, but debt-inducing, Independence Pops concert series, Portlanders will have to travel a little farther to satisfy their classical-music appetites this summer. But it will be well worth the mileage.    
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