Courtney Barnett live at Manchester Ritz (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
The National, Courtney Barnett and Parquet Courts are on the list for the 2019 Bonnaroo Festival which will be topped by Phish, Post Malone, Childish Gambino, Solange and Cardi B.
They’ll all be in Manchester, Tennessee between June 13th-16th along with others such as Jim James, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, Kacey Musgraves, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Marin Morris.
Courtney Barnett rounded off 2018 by releasing the brand new song Small Talk, which had been recorded during the sessions for her second solo LP Tell Me How You Really Feel – one of Live4ever’s top picks of last year:
“As well as being lyrically more visceral, the music is also noticeably abrasive – the fumbled early sludge of opener Hopefullessness barely getting out of its slacker trance before dissolving into a scree of feedback.”
“The sunshine and past relatable neuroses of suburbia it ain’t. There are occasional reminders that the singer has lost neither her keen eye for observation nor the knack of turning it into gold, as with Nameless/Faceless’, ‘I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup/And spit out better words than you’, but this is a song about how femininity and feminism are becoming more distinct in a world where so many men can deal with neither.”