As festival-lineup announcement season (yes, it's its own season now) continues, the most entertaining game to play with respect to headliners is "What year is this, 1991?" I thought Lolla had it wrapped with their zeitgeist grabbing spread of Tool,... CONTINUE READING 2009 AUSTIN CITY LIMITS LINE-UP OFFERS PEARL JAM, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, BEASTIE BOYS IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM THE FIRST TIME»
Posted on April 28, 2009 (49 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits
This was the first year in three that I didn't make the trek down to Austin for the party in Zilker Park, because of the unexpected arrival of ATP NY but also because there are only so many times ("so... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE FEELS HIS STUFF, ARM HAIR @ AUSTIN CITY LIMITS»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | David Byrne
With all the new summer music events vying for your attention, we understand if you've got festival announcement burnout. Consider adding ACL to your wish list, though, as they've just announced a ton of great bands who'll be visiting Zilker... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 2008 GETS FOOS, FOGERTY»
Posted on April 15, 2008 (30 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Beck | David Byrne | Foo Fighters | John Fogerty | Manu Chao | Robert Plant | The Mars Volta | The Raconteurs
At some point we called this year's Austin City Limits festival "Friday and Sunday heavy," but that shit ain't right; this year's ACL dance-card was tilted entirely toward the tail end. In fact, pretty sure we saw more bands... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS, "BEST OF" LIST»
Posted on September 18, 2007 in (24 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Ben Kweller | Bloc Party | Common | Dr. Dog | Ghostland Observatory | Nicole Atkins | Regina Spektor | The Decemberists | The National | Yo La Tengo
MMJ know how to make a fest memorable, don't they. Bonnaroo '06 they set themselves apart from the pack with a three hour marathon, Lolla '06 they inspired us to call 'em ... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: MY MORNING JACKET ARE THE BEST (DRESSED) BAND IN AMERICA»
Posted on September 18, 2007 in (23 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Austin City Limits | My Morning Jacket
After navigating the throngs of Fest folks looking for transportation from Zilker Park (pedicabs were the order of the weekend, though we had good cab karma), downtown afterparty options were plentiful. But few were free, and fewer still exclusively... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: HOT FREAKS! AFTERPARTIES (GRIZZLY BEAR, ART BRUT, THE ROSEBUDS, SPARROW HOUSE, ST. VINCENT)»
Posted on September 17, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Art Brut | Austin City Limits | Grizzly Bear | Sparrow House | St. Vincent | The Rosebuds | Voxtrot
Our Saturday in Austin was relatively tame -- no man-made clouds, no crazy Austin City Limits tapings (although friends hit Wilco at 4PM), and, sadly, no White Stripes. The loss of Jack 'n' Meg just exacerbated the fact that... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: ARCTIC MONKEYS, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, MUSE»
Posted on September 16, 2007 in (17 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Austin City Limits | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Muse
When you walk into the KLRU studios, home of the always awesome Austin City Limits public broadcast live music show, you get hit with a couple of ground rules: no pictures (hence the juicy program shot), no excessive moving... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE @ THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING, AUSTIN 9/14/07»
Posted on September 15, 2007 in (22 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Austin City Limits
Welcome to Austin City Limits 2007, where the weather's hot, the tacos are tasty, and the toilets are very, very flammable. Folks all over town are still buzzing about the lineup's loss of the exceedingly anxious White Stripes, but... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 15, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Blonde Redhead | Crowded House | Heartless Bastards | LCD Soundsystem | M.I.A. | Pete Yorn | Peter Bjorn And John | Queens Of The Stone Age
Before things really could get cooking at the Austin City Limits festival yesterday, they went up in flames. The horizon line behind the AT&T mainstage became an eerie sight around 2:30PM, when massive plumes of black smoke billowed and... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS '07: TOILET FIRE»
Posted on September 15, 2007 in (12 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits
Even though we've managed to catch the Stripes twice this year already, we'd be lying if we didn't say their set at this weekend's Austin City Limits festival was a big reason for our heading down to Austin on Friday.... CONTINUE READING WHITE STRIPES BAIL ON ACL, CITE "NERVOUS BREAKDOWN"»
Posted on September 11, 2007 (43 comments)
Tags: Arturo O'Farrill | Austin City Limits | Ra Ra Riot | The White Stripes
And you thought Lollapalooza and Coachella brought the heavy hitters. The Austin City Limits Festival announced its full lineup this morning, and the dancecard is jammed up with every band imaginable floating on the meniscus of the blog-love bubble. That... CONTINUE READING ACL FESTIVAL 2007 FULL LINEUP»
Posted on May 10, 2007 (31 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits
This morning the Austin Chronicle teased September's Austin City Limits festival lineup, offering up a few of the names signed on for duty via crossword puzzle. In the even that you suck at crosswords (or the more likely case that... CONTINUE READING ACL LINEUP GETS A PARTIAL REVEAL»
Posted on May 3, 2007 (8 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits
While we're almost done with thinking about the year that was, we can't let it go by without recapping the year in our favorite concerts. Most of the shows we saw were in the LES ('cause it's closer than say... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF THE YEAR»
Posted on December 27, 2006 in (77 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | ¡Forward Russia! | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Editors | Grizzly Bear | Hot Chip | Kevin Federline | Lollapalooza | Love Is All | Ryan Adams | Spank Rock | Sufjan Stevens | Sunset Rubdown | The Cardigans | The Hold Steady | The Strokes
Gotta make this short 'cause we're waiting to board our flight. (Congratulations! We have 36 channels of DirecTV programming!) Got off to a slow start on Sunday. "There's a red eye the size of Laredo heading right at us," some... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS: DAY THREE»
Posted on September 18, 2006 in , (21 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Ben Kweller | Sufjan Stevens | The White Stripes
"Does anyone have a tampon?" asked bloody Ben Kweller yesterday afternoon. The Brooklyn rocker had just taken the AT&T stage, and despite the Tampax now hanging off his face, the nosebleed was too dangerous to ignore. Poor Ben went to... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS: DAY TWO»
Posted on September 17, 2006 in , (16 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Ben Kweller | TV On The Radio | Willie Nelson
The charges leveled by indie nation against John Mayer are substantial: a few albums of adult-alternative drivel, a Dave Matthews-in-a-dorm-room aesthetic, and every grating second of his breakthrough single "No Such Thing." Not to mention the overblown public affair that... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM HEARTS JOHN MAYER»
Posted on September 17, 2006 in , (104 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | John Mayer
Yesterday was a scorcher, but we managed to wipe the sweat from Amrit's camera lens long enough to snap shots of our favorite bands rockin' Austin. Stereogum's done a bunch of these 3-day rock fests this year, and learned some... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS: DAY ONE»
Posted on September 16, 2006 in , (16 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Ben Kweller | Cat Power | Gnarls Barkley | John Mayer | Sparklehorse | Wolf Parade
The Internet is a buzz, as always, with predictions on which bands are playing which festival. Austin City Limits' Music Festival, as Austinist reports, has a sneaky ploy to drive hype for their event.From April 13th through this Friday, they're... CONTINUE READING ACL'S SCAVENGER HUNT & SUMMER FESTIVALS»
Posted on April 18, 2006 (36 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits
