The Austin City Limits Festival, scheduled for Oct. 2-4 at Zilker Park in Austin, has announced the headliners for this year's fest. ACL always has a diverse lineup, and this year will be no different with Pearl Jam (!), Dave...
Organizers of Austin City Limits Music Festival are finally acknowledging that heatstroke is something best avoided: After moving the fest from mid September to late September this year, they're moving it again for 2009, to Oct. 2-4....
1). At no recent ACL has the balance of the day's 60,000 festival-goers been as skewed to one side of Zilker Park as on Sunday. And Saturday, for that matter, but wait a second for that. On Sunday, 80 percent...
1). Gnarls Barkley. For the last performance of a four-month tour, Cee-Lo, Danger Mouse and their tux-with-silver-bowtie-sporting backing band left way too much in the dressing room. The duo's live shows are notoriously unpredictable, both in terms of quality and...
Sunday was the Austin City Limits Music Festival's rockin' day; many of the acts scheduled to perform fell into the realm of modern rock, blues rock and jam rock. As such, it also ended up being the festival's lightest attendance...
1). Bizarre sight of the day: seeing a member of the grounds crew using a wet-dry vacuum to suck up standing water on the grass behind Rock Island. See: you can vacuum a lawn! 2). The Rock and Recycle volunteer...
1). Erykah Badu. Sorry to say it, but Dallas' queen of neo-soul talked too much. After "Love of My Life," she threw down this bizarre scat solo using two curse words as anchors, then she spent three or four minutes...
Saturday at the Austin City Limits Music Festival was about the groove. Well, about half the time, anyway: it seemed like half the acts were soul- and R&B-derived, and the other half were either quiet indie songwriters or country-fried rockers....
1) This year's Official Program. It's 128 pages, color-coded and exceedingly informative. The master stroke? It's pocket sized for 2008, measuring roughly 4 by 5 inches. And it's free. 2). Labor Day may have passed by a few weeks ago,...
1) Paula Nelson. She's a thirtysomething Austinite who's trying to make a name for herself as a blues-rock singer. Only she never will make a name for herself because her dad, one Willie Nelson, has already done it for her....
A'ight. Since it's been established that my smartphone now officially belongs in a museum, here's the plan: I'll post three blogs a night after each day at Austin City Limits: The good, the bad, and the lovely -- 'lovely' as...
You nailed it, Christy. My smartphone's simply not working past 3 p.m. or so at ACL, and I suspect this is why (beware: I'm about to get a little technical, music lovers) I have an older smartphone that uses GPRS...
Austin City Limits is this Friday through Sunday, and Big Mike will be down there covering it. In addition to some cool features and live-blogging, he's trying something new. Throughout the day, each day, he'll be Twittering his observations, information...
After ho-hum reviews for her big screen acting debut in My Blueberry Nights, Norah Jones returns to the small screen this week with Live From Austin. The concert DVD is a 76-minute version of the Austin City Limits taping...
It's a virtual explosion of photos on Playlist today, apparently ... check out these shots from rock fest Lollapalooza over the weekend in Chicago's Grant Park. Thor was there and wrote a review, along with a story comparing it with...
Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona will receive the Americana Music Association's Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive at the organization's seventh annual Honors and Awards ceremony Sept. 18 at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. He's produced more than...
Beck, whose album has gotten more publicity for its anonymity than it has for its music, finally has admitted to a name for the new CD: Modern Guilt. (Is this the modern "Modern Love"? Argh. And this is what...
Last night, Dallas Morning News reporter Jake Batsell saw the Austin City Limits taping of Carolyn Wonderland, who also performs Saturday at the Amphitheater at Oak Point Park in Plano. Here's his report: Austin blues rocker Carolyn Wonderland seemed sincerely...
For those who enjoy heat exhaustion, the Austin City Limits Festival has announced its full lineup, including time slots. Will you fight the crowds at Jakob Dylan, or Vampire Weekend? David Byrne or N.E.R.D.? The Foo Fighters, or the...
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