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I have yet to watch these, and I probably never will. The only thing I hate more about the way I look on tv is the way I sound. But I am all about bringing awareness to my cause.
I don't know yet. Maybe probably for a couple of months. Maybe forever.
The curse of TIN lives on.
I must disagree.
First of all, we have internet in my country
Secondly and most importantly, you guys (at least few of you) are a part of my family now. I'm not gonna stop posting here or something just because I have to move to another country (and possibly only for a while).
I'm just sad that I have to leave NYC this soon. I knew this day was gonna come, but wasn't prepared for it.
Last Edit: Sept 22, 2017 15:19:47 GMT -5 by Fred - Back to Top
Secondly and most importantly, you guys (at least few of you) are a part of my family now. I'm not gonna stop posting here or something just because I have to move to another country (and possibly only for a while).
I'm just sad that I have to leave NYC this soon. I knew this day was gonna come, but wasn't prepared for it.
Don’t be sad. Think of all the new adventures.
NYC never goes anywhere. The only thing that changes is which MTA line is closed.
Secondly and most importantly, you guys (at least few of you) are a part of my family now. I'm not gonna stop posting here or something just because I have to move to another country (and possibly only for a while).
I'm just sad that I have to leave NYC this soon. I knew this day was gonna come, but wasn't prepared for it.
Don’t be sad. Think of all the new adventures.
NYC never goes anywhere. The only thing that changes is which MTA line is closed.
Thank you for the morale. One of those days I need it.
Hopefully something will work out very soon.
Having said that, I'll be going to a lot of concerts in October. A lot.
I think CBS execs thought long and hard, and found a way to alienate Star Trek fans and kill the franchise. The answer is requiring a subscription to a service no one wants, CBS All Access. Maybe they actually like losing money and want people to pirate their content?
Post by heyyitskait on Sept 22, 2017 17:14:53 GMT -5
Fred, if you aren't against moving about 3.5 hours upstate, pretty sure we got jobs for you here (mostly in semiconductors and drug delivery/production). I have some friends I could talk to. Just sayin'.
Fred, if you aren't against moving about 3.5 hours upstate, pretty sure we got jobs for you here (mostly...drug delivery/production). I have some friends I could talk to. Just sayin'.
Street level? ------------- Your baby mama in the club, you mad. She bendin over lettin people instagram that ass.
Fred, if you aren't against moving about 3.5 hours upstate, pretty sure we got jobs for you here (mostly...drug delivery/production). I have some friends I could talk to. Just sayin'.
Street level? ------------- Your baby mama in the club, you mad. She bendin over lettin people instagram that ass.
I mean, there is a heroin problem here but I wouldn’t recommend that entry level position.
Secondly and most importantly, you guys (at least few of you) are a part of my family now. I'm not gonna stop posting here or something just because I have to move to another country (and possibly only for a while).
I'm just sad that I have to leave NYC this soon. I knew this day was gonna come, but wasn't prepared for it.
Don’t be sad. Think of all the new adventures.
NYC never goes anywhere. The only thing that changes is which MTA line is closed.
hey unrelated but can anyone tell me what talking heads song this reminds me of?
I was bored so I decided to map out my development in musical interests.
The first band I loved was Hanson. I was in third grade, and was MMMBopping all the time and wearing the shit outta my cassettes. This was around the time the internet started to become a thing, and I would print out pictures of the Hanson Bros and keep them in a folder. I'm not sure why. Around this time I also became a fan of the Spice Girls. So basically I spent my ten-year-old days with a folder full of Hanson pictures in my backpack, zig-a-zag ahhing with the radio blasting whenever I had to clean my room. And yet my Mom claims to have been completely shocked when I told her that I was bi eight years later. Oh, silly mother.
After them, the next artist I really became a fan of was Eminem, which birthed a really deep love of hip-hop. This was quite a jump from Hanson and the Spice Girls, but I loved him for the same reason a lot of people did - he was edgy and irreverent. Even though I was a polite straight-A nerd, even at a young age I was very internally rebellious, and was fascinated by the profane and taboo. So naturally, the guy rapping about humping dead animals grabbed my attention.
[Fun story: when I was in fifth grade I had printed out the lyrics to "The Real Slim Shady" and, for some reason, decided it would be a good idea to bring them into my very Catholic school and share them with my friends. I gave them to Brandon to hold onto while I went to the bathroom, and by the time I got back they were in my teacher's hands. Dammit Brandon. So I get sent to the principal's office, where this pearl-clutching old Catholic leprechaun is trying to reconcile her notions of good little schoolboys with the lyrical smut now sitting on her desk. I remember being very embarrassed due to the fact that because of those lyrics, I now knew what a clitoris was, and my principal - who probably also knows what a clitoris is - is now reading over them knowing that I have eaten from the tree of knowledge. Even SHE has a clitoris, and now I knew that. I felt such shame when I looked into her eyes.]
Anywho, Eminem is who really ignited my love of hip-hop. For the most part I only knew the singles that were released on the radio (my mom DID NOT approve), but my eyes were opened one night when I was at my dad's house and my stepbrother let me listen to The Eminem Show. And it was the uncensored version! And that music moved me, man. This was back in the time of Napster, and I would download whatever songs I could (search: jay z explicit version mp3), burn them onto CDs that I had intentionally mislabeled (Crackers and Cheese Vol 1), and jam the fuck out.
In 8th grade I started dabbling in writing rhymes. My first rap was written with my friend Darris, to the tune of Country Grammar. I even remember how the verse started: "You can find me/in Vatican City with the Pope/smoking on dope". Obviously, I was Speaking my Truth through my rhymes. At this point, rap was literally all I listened to. This didn't really change until high school.
The summer between 8th grade and 9th, I started to enjoy my first non-rap music artist since high school: Good Charlotte. I loved The Young and the Hopeless, and I still do now that I think about it. For a long time GC would be the only breath of air for me as I swam in the sea of hip-hop for the next few years, but it was a sign that new doors would open for me.
But first: Kanye. MAN when College Dropout came out I listened to it every single day for weeks. One of my basketball teammates Jeff was our class's resident music hustler, and it was one of the many CDs I bought from him that year. Kanye resonated with me because not only is he a dope as fuck producer, but he rapped about things other than the usual tropes found in popular rap: money, guns, drug, girls, etc. He rapped about being broke, about determination, about faith, about family. I really, really dug that.
Around this time I also started to get more serious about writing my own music, and I started to record it as well. I still wasn't very good at all in terms of delivery or emotion, but I was starting to write half-decent lyrics. I joined a message board called RapDogs, which was devoted to online rap battles. I learned a lot about how punchlines work, and how to form multisyllabic rhyme schemes that utilize various types of wordplay. I grew a lot creatively at this time, though I didn't practice actually rapping as much because my mom hated it - this forced my recording time to the hour between when I got home from school and when she got home from work. I still have all the stuff I've recorded, so every once in a while I'll revisit them. They're totally weaksauce but I still fucks with it.
Fast forward a few years, and things are starting to change. During the summer between high school and college, I remember being in the car in Orlando on a family vacation to Disney World. Or Land. I forget which is which. And I don't remember what inspired me to do this, but before leaving I decided on a whim to download the Legend album by Bob Marley. I remember listening to it and being like "Holy shit, this is good." And I wasn't even smoking pot yet! So I started to branch out, and listened to Marley, and the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. Wow! This was such a radical departure from most of what I had listened to before, but I enjoyed it! Now, I'm not saying my parents never played rock music - they did - but it was mostly 80's hair bands and whatever was on contemporary rock stations. Nothing too interesting, but it was what I grew up on.
It was in college that my tastes expanded the most (thank you, LSD!). I went from being a total hip-hop head to actually enjoying acoustic guitars (which I had now started to play). During this time I listened to a lot of Incubus, Circa Survive, and Iron & Wine, in addition to a bunch of the classic stoner rock stuff. I was still writing all the time though, and one summer I dove into it with such an intensity that an album came out. Brandon - yes, that Brandon - had a mic setup in his room, and we would spend hours trading bars and listening to beats. Between this and the times I was able to record on my own, I was able to create a work that I was truly proud of - and I still consider that creative endeavor to be one of the best things I've ever done. Not necessarily in terms of quality, but in terms of being able to create something from scratch and say "I did this". That feels good.
Even though at this point music was still one of the biggest presences in my life, my tastes still weren't incredibly diverse. It was rap, folk, and classic rock. Maybe some modern rock thrown in. There was a lot of Mumford and Jason Mraz. But nothing electronic, no country or anything remotely experimental or heavy.
Then came Joey. Joey was the first person I ever truly loved as an adult, but I wasn't a fan of his music choices. It was a lot of soulless electronic shit - Kaskadey type stuff. But then he told me to listen to Discovery by Daft Punk. Oh man. This was a eye-opener. Daft Punk was this decade's Good Charlotte. (There's a sentence you've never read before and will never read again). I didn't dive right into the genre - still disliked most of it, really - but I started to like Boys Noize and a little Skrillex. Things were changing.
Then came Inforoo. Oh man, I thought I loved music, but these guys were a whole different level. I had two Roos under my belt by the time I actually became active on here, but I still didn't know much new music. Pretty much I would just research whatever was on the Roo lineup, and that was how I found new music. Which worked - found new favorites in Bjork and Alt-J - but was not very comprehensive, partially because I was still close-minded in some ways. But slowly but surely, I started to listen to new stuff that I previously disliked.
Like Radiohead. *collective gasp* I used to have no love for Radiohead whatsoever. Completely skipped their 2012 show (which I now immensely regret). I had tried getting into them before by listening to OK Computer, but it just sounded cold and had too much wailing. I tried multiple times but couldn't get into it, so I had written them off...until Kid A. I remember exactly where I was the first time I listened to it. It was the summer of 2015, and I was in the Philadelphia airport waiting to board a plane to Nashville, where I would spend the weekend at a kickass pool party. I had my nice ATH-M50s on me for the plane ride, and when I first heard the opening synths drop into "Everything In Its Right Place", I felt warm fuzzies coat my brain. THIS. This was it. I listened to the album straight through, and loved every second of it. I had no clue what he was wailing on about, but I'd figure that out later. I was hooked - which is good, because it turns out their other albums are pretty good too! I'm still not a fan of OKC though. Idk it just does nothing for me.
Since then I've slowly opened up to music that's more electronic or abrasive - I've come to be a huge Nicolas Jaar fan and I've very recently discovered that I enjoy Nine Inch Nails as well. Things continue to change, as they always do. I still can't really stand much country or straight-up metal, but if I've learned anything, it's that it's good to stay open to new things, even things that you might have looked down upon. Same holds true for most things in life, really.
I'm not really sure why I typed all this. I was originally planning on just doing something like Hanson > Spice Girls > Eminem etc with no commentary. But it feels good to share, so I did.
Thanks, Inforoo.
Last Edit: Sept 24, 2017 1:53:22 GMT -5 by Jaz - Back to Top
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I was bored so I decided to map out my development in musical interests.
The first band I loved was Hanson. I was in third grade, and was MMMBopping all the time and wearing the shit outta my cassettes. This was around the time the internet started to become a thing, and I would print out pictures of the Hanson Bros and keep them in a folder. I'm not sure why. Around this time I also became a fan of the Spice Girls. So basically I spent my ten-year-old days with a folder full of Hanson pictures in my backpack, zig-a-zag ahhing with the radio blasting whenever I had to clean my room. And yet my Mom claims to have been completely shocked when I told her that I was bi eight years later. Oh, silly mother.
After them, the next artist I really became a fan of was Eminem, which birthed a really deep love of hip-hop. This was quite a jump from Hanson and the Spice Girls, but I loved him for the same reason a lot of people did - he was edgy and irreverent. Even though I was a polite straight-A nerd, even at a young age I was very internally rebellious, and was fascinated by the profane and taboo. So naturally, the guy rapping about humping dead animals grabbed my attention.
[Fun story: when I was in fifth grade I had printed out the lyrics to "The Real Slim Shady" and, for some reason, decided it would be a good idea to bring them into my very Catholic school and share them with my friends. I gave them to Brandon to hold onto while I went to the bathroom, and by the time I got back they were in my teacher's hands. Dammit Brandon. So I get sent to the principal's office, where this pearl-clutching old Catholic leprechaun is trying to reconcile her notions of good little schoolboys with the lyrical smut now sitting on her desk. I remember being very embarrassed due to the fact that because of those lyrics, I now knew what a clitoris was, and my principal - who probably also knows what a clitoris is - is now reading over them knowing that I have eaten from the tree of knowledge. Even SHE has a clitoris, and now I knew that. I felt such shame when I looked into her eyes.]
Anywho, Eminem is who really ignited my love of hip-hop. For the most part I only knew the singles that were released on the radio (my mom DID NOT approve), but my eyes were opened one night when I was at my dad's house and my stepbrother let me listen to The Eminem Show. And it was the uncensored version! And that music moved me, man. This was back in the time of Napster, and I would download whatever songs I could (search: jay z explicit version mp3), burn them onto CDs that I had intentionally mislabeled (Crackers and Cheese Vol 1), and jam the fuck out.
In 8th grade I started dabbling in writing rhymes. My first rap was written with my friend Darris, to the tune of Country Grammar. I even remember how the verse started: "You can find me/in Vatican City with the Pope/smoking on dope". Obviously, I was Speaking my Truth through my rhymes. At this point, rap was literally all I listened to. This didn't really change until high school.
The summer between 8th grade and 9th, I started to enjoy my first non-rap music artist since high school: Good Charlotte. I loved The Young and the Hopeless, and I still do now that I think about it. For a long time GC would be the only breath of air for me as I swam in the sea of hip-hop for the next few years, but it was a sign that new doors would open for me.
But first: Kanye. MAN when College Dropout came out I listened to it every single day for weeks. One of my basketball teammates Jeff was our class's resident music hustler, and it was one of the many CDs I bought from him that year. Kanye resonated with me because not only is he a dope as fuck producer, but he rapped about things other than the usual tropes found in popular rap: money, guns, drug, girls, etc. He rapped about being broke, about determination, about faith, about family. I really, really dug that.
Around this time I also started to get more serious about writing my own music, and I started to record it as well. I still wasn't very good at all in terms of delivery or emotion, but I was starting to write half-decent lyrics. I joined a message board called RapDogs, which was devoted to online rap battles. I learned a lot about how punchlines work, and how to form multisyllabic rhyme schemes that utilize various types of wordplay. I grew a lot creatively at this time, though I didn't practice actually rapping as much because my mom hated it - this forced my recording time to the hour between when I got home from school and when she got home from work. I still have all the stuff I've recorded, so every once in a while I'll revisit them. They're totally weaksauce but I still fucks with it.
Fast forward a few years, and things are starting to change. During the summer between high school and college, I remember being in the car in Orlando on a family vacation to Disney World. Or Land. I forget which is which. And I don't remember what inspired me to do this, but before leaving I decided on a whim to download the Legend album by Bob Marley. I remember listening to it and being like "Holy shit, this is good." And I wasn't even smoking pot yet! So I started to branch out, and listened to Marley, and the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. Wow! This was such a radical departure from most of what I had listened to before, but I enjoyed it! Now, I'm not saying my parents never played rock music - they did - but it was mostly 80's hair bands and whatever was on contemporary rock stations. Nothing too interesting, but it was what I grew up on.
It was in college that my tastes expanded the most (thank you, LSD!). I went from being a total hip-hop head to actually enjoying acoustic guitars (which I had now started to play). During this time I listened to a lot of Incubus, Circa Survive, and Iron & Wine, in addition to a bunch of the classic stoner rock stuff. I was still writing all the time though, and one summer I dove into it with such an intensity that an album came out. Brandon - yes, that Brandon - had a mic setup in his room, and we would spend hours trading bars and listening to beats. Between this and the times I was able to record on my own, I was able to create a work that I was truly proud of - and I still consider that creative endeavor to be one of the best things I've ever done. Not necessarily in terms of quality, but in terms of being able to create something from scratch and say "I did this". That feels good.
Even though at this point music was still one of the biggest presences in my life, my tastes still weren't incredibly diverse. It was rap, folk, and classic rock. Maybe some modern rock thrown in. There was a lot of Mumford and Jason Mraz. But nothing electronic, no country or anything remotely experimental or heavy.
Then came Joey. Joey was the first person I ever truly loved as an adult, but I wasn't a fan of his music choices. It was a lot of soulless electronic shit - Kaskadey type stuff. But then he told me to listen to Discovery by Daft Punk. Oh man. This was a eye-opener. Daft Punk was this decade's Good Charlotte. (There's a sentence you've never read before and will never read again). I didn't dive right into the genre - still disliked most of it, really - but I started to like Boys Noize and a little Skrillex. Things were changing.
Then came Inforoo. Oh man, I thought I loved music, but these guys were a whole different level. I had two Roos under my belt by the time I actually became active on here, but I still didn't know much new music. Pretty much I would just research whatever was on the Roo lineup, and that was how I found new music. Which worked - found new favorites in Bjork and Alt-J - but was not very comprehensive, partially because I was still close-minded in some ways. But slowly but surely, I started to listen to new stuff that I previously disliked.
Like Radiohead. *collective gasp* I used to have no love for Radiohead whatsoever. Completely skipped their 2012 show (which I now immensely regret). I had tried getting into them before by listening to OK Computer, but it just sounded cold and had too much wailing. I tried multiple times but couldn't get into it, so I had written them off...until Kid A. I remember exactly where I was the first time I listened to it. It was the summer of 2015, and I was in the Philadelphia airport waiting to board a plane to Nashville, where I would spend the weekend at a kickass pool party. I had my nice ATH-M50s on me for the plane ride, and when I first heard the opening synths drop into "Everything In Its Right Place", I felt warm fuzzies coat my brain. THIS. This was it. I listened to the album straight through, and loved every second of it. I had no clue what he was wailing on about, but I'd figure that out later. I was hooked - which is good, because it turns out their other albums are pretty good too! I'm still not a fan of OKC though. Idk it just does nothing for me.
Since then I've slowly opened up to music that's more electronic or abrasive - I've come to be a huge Nicolas Jaar fan and I've very recently discovered that I enjoy Nine Inch Nails as well. Things continue to change, as they always do. I still can't really stand much country or straight-up metal, but if I've learned anything, it's that it's good to stay open to new things, even things that you might have looked down upon. Same holds true for most things in life, really.
I'm not really sure why I typed all this. I was originally planning on just doing something like Hanson > Spice Girls > Eminem etc with no commentary. But it feels good to share, so I did.
Thanks, Inforoo.
Just woke up and for some reason came straight here and read this. What a fun way to start a Sunday! Quality inforooing you've done here.