Jack White, Florence and the Machine, Weezer and Gotye also will perform October 12-14 in Zilker Park.
By Kara Warner
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Photo: MTV News
It's time once again for the annual lineup announcement for the Austin City Limits music festival, the increasingly popular fall gathering in Texas that last year delivered new music from Coldplay and a stirring performance by Kanye West.
Last year, festival organizers went outside the box with their preannouncement teasers and unveiled a few noteworthy players via a series of lo-fi scratch-off cards and their "Acl Lineup Lottery." The scratch-off cards proved to be such a big hit last year that the fest's organizers once again teased their lineup with the lottery, which the crafty folks at Brooklyn Vegan used to reveal that Steve Earle, Delta Spirit, Punch Brothers, Quiet Company and LP would be a part of the 130-band lineup. Scratch-and-win tickets...
By Kara Warner
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Photo: MTV News
It's time once again for the annual lineup announcement for the Austin City Limits music festival, the increasingly popular fall gathering in Texas that last year delivered new music from Coldplay and a stirring performance by Kanye West.
Last year, festival organizers went outside the box with their preannouncement teasers and unveiled a few noteworthy players via a series of lo-fi scratch-off cards and their "Acl Lineup Lottery." The scratch-off cards proved to be such a big hit last year that the fest's organizers once again teased their lineup with the lottery, which the crafty folks at Brooklyn Vegan used to reveal that Steve Earle, Delta Spirit, Punch Brothers, Quiet Company and LP would be a part of the 130-band lineup. Scratch-and-win tickets...
- 5/22/2012
- MTV Music News
Kanye West, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket and Cee-Lo will headline the 10th Austin City Limits Music Festival. The event, which features more than 130 acts, takes place Sept. 16-18 in Austin’s Zilker Park. Other acts at the festival, which takes its name from the long-running PBS series, “Austin City Limits,” include Fleet Foxes, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nas & Damian Marley, Randy Newman, Bright Eyes, Social Distortion, TV on the Radio and Big Boi. A handful of acts who appeared at the inaugural 2002 festival—Asleep at the Wheel, Patrice Pike, Gary Clark Jr., and Jack Ingram—will...
- 5/17/2011
- Hitfix
Director: Nathan Christ Cinematographer: Robert L. Garza Stars: Black Joe Lewis, Bill Baird, Ghostland Observatory, Cari Palazzolo Studio/Running Time: Reversal Films, 90 mins. Austin, Texas, shamelessly labels itself as the “Live Music Capital of the World”, a moniker validated by annual events like SXSW and the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the seemingly limitless number of live music venues about town. But unbeknownst to most outsiders, Austin continuously wages wars within those city limits, with music as its battleground. Echotone beautifully examines those battles by neither condemning nor sensationalizing but by letting the city speak through its inhabitants....
- 5/16/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
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