NASHVILLE, Tenn. – while major acts and headliners like Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beach Boys and Phish always draw the masses out to the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, it’s discovering new acts that’s the true joy of the four-day festival down on the farm in Manchester, Tenn. British singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka is one of Bonnaroo’s more buzzed-about down-list acts, but he isn’t the only rising performer worth fighting the crowds, heat and dust...

Adam Yauch, known as MCA as a co-founder of the groundbreaking rap group Beastie Boys, died earlier today after battling cancer. Born August 5, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, he was 47. Yauch had been diagnosed in 2009 with a tumor in his salivary gland, and was notably absent last month when the group became the third rap group to be admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The group began as a hardcore punk band...