This week: The 12th Bonnaroo music festival, which wrapped up last Sunday in Manchester, Tenn. Bonnaroo has held steady since 2002 as one of America’s largest music festivals; it sells out most years at 80,000. It has not expanded into double weekends and boat cruises, like Coachella, or sprouted versions in other countries, like Lollapalooza. But the look of its lineup has changed since its early days as a jam-band summit, the festival at which you were assured of hearing music descending from the Grateful Dead. And it has changed not so much toward a package of sellable indie cool for college kids, which is the big-festival norm (i.e., favorites from the last few editions of South by...
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