By Erica Anderson and Gil Kaufman

The “We Are One” Obama inaugural celebration — featuring Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Usher and many more — just wrapped up. We had reporters in the crowd for the whole thing — check out what they saw and heard!

Erica, 1:30 p.m.: The space around the reflecting pool is gradually filling up. Despite the chilling wind, spirits are high. People are doing the wave. The number of people gathered here seems to rival the iconic scenes of the Civil Rights March in August 1963.

The significance isn't lost on the young attendees.

Will, a 21-year-old from Massachusetts, called it a historic day.

"It's crazy to believe some of the people who took part in that march 45 years ago are here to witness this, [the inauguration of] our first black president."

"This is monumentous," Elliott, a college student in D.C., added.

There's about an hour to go before the performances kick off, and people just keep rolling in.

Erica, 2:25 p.m.: The entire crowd is doing the wave to pass the time. Everyone seems to be buzzing for Beyoncé. Read more...

Note: After this blog entry was originally posted, Bradford Cox contacted me to say he was upset with it. What followed was a day of e-mailing, curse words and even a few moments of genuine soul-searching — all of which you can read about in my column, Bigger Than the Sound.

If you think you had a rough weekend, consider the plight of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox.

While you were busy downing one too many Jäger bombs, he was accidentally posting a link to his MediaFire account on his blog, thereby giving fans unfettered access to his entire collection of demos, unfinished tunes and two albums scheduled to be released over the next 12 months. He then attempted to purge the Internet of any and all traces of said material via a series of posts that oscillated wildly between poor-mouthed pandering and "OMG HOW DARE YOU I HOPE YOU DIE" missives.

All you had to do was clean up a little neon-tinged puke; big deal.

(more on Cox's crisis after the jump!)
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