Posts Tagged ‘Austin City Limits Music Festival’

The Austin City Limits Music Festival daily grid is up!  Create your personalized schedule here!  What day is your favorite?  Friday is looking pretty awesome to me… [Continue]

The Shepherd’s Dog – 2007 Sam Beam, the lyricist, voice, and driving force of Iron and Wine, basically came out of nowhere in 2002.   His unique sound and ability helped him quickly find a place in the indie scene; hushed yet warm vocals, barely above a whisper at times, sparse, hollow acoustic instrumentation, and [Continue]

Stop rubbing your eyes…it’s not the ’90s, it’s just the resurgence of the ’90s! With headliners like Pearl Jam, DMB, the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, the Toadies, and the B-52s, I feel just like I’m back in high school wearing flannel and a chain wallet. Luckily, some of those bands are still fantastic enough to [Continue]

Super Taranta – 2007 Like N.E.R.D., Gogol Bordello‘s show at last year’s ACL Music Festival was a total standout. I was already a huge fan of both Super Taranta and Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike and the anticipation for ACL was to see how they could possibly orchestrate the perfectly organized chaos from the albums [Continue]

Movement – 2008 After seeing Rootz Underground perform at a KEXP event in the Austin City Limits studio at KLRU during SXSW last year, a non-reggae devoted friend of ours was so taken by the band’s performance that he immediately downloaded Movement. Having sat through many a reggae album at our house, he kept telling [Continue]

Seeing Sounds – 2008 At last year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, N.E.R.D. put on an unforgettable, high energy show playing songs off the then just-released Seeing Sounds – actually quite a difficult task when you’re performing at the hottest time of the day, facing right into the sun, for a massive crowd of already [Continue]