Epic jams, delicious indie rock, performance art and thousands of sunburned revelers marked the second day of the inaugural Rothbury festival, in the teensy western Michigan town of Rothbury.
Timbaland ascended to the top of the rap industry in the late '90s, impressively balancing his in-demand hitmaking abilities with his outlandish production style.
And so Rothbury got its groove on. A whole bunch of grooves, to be exact, as the festival kicked into full-bore music mode Friday, second of four days for the high-profile new Michigan event.
He's sitting backstage for an interview after his band, N.E.R.D., performed a rousing set in a sold-out Madison Square Garden as part of Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour.