Austin City Limits

Austin City Limit's 2013 Lineup

Austin City Limits' lineup for 2013 was just announced: Headliners include Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon and noted teenage-girl-advice-givers Atoms for Peace. Tickets go on sale May 7 -- early bird passes are sold out but VIP is available if you just can't wait. See also: -50 Don't ... More >>

50 Don'ts For Your ACL Festival Weekend

We know you know what to do at the Austin City Limits Festival, but we're not positive you know what not to do. So, here's a list of 50 don'ts for your ACL weekend: 1. Don't try to look like you're from Austin. Austin knows you're a poseur. 2. Don't bring a cooler with you. Bring an entire refrige ... More >>

Austin City Limits Will Be Two Weekends in 2013

See also: The 20 Most Memorable Fans of Austin City Limits Good news, everyone! Earlier today, The Statesman broke down Austin City Limits Music Fest's new, extra special bonus deal with C3 Presents (the ACL producers): starting in fall 2013, the festival will have an extra special additional weeke ... More >>

Sarah Jarosz at the Kessler Theater

Friday, July 20, at the Kessler Theater

Austin City Limits Goes Mainstream

Night Three of Austin City Limits '11: If You're Gonna Go Out, You Better Go Out With a Bang.

Pete FreedmanArcade Fire played a familiar set to end Austin City Limits 2011. But it was still thrilling.​ The hot sun from the morning of Day Three at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival persisted well into the afternoon and evening at Zilker Park. But with the festival end looming and pl ... More >>

Spoon, Black Lips, Cannibal Corpse and Others Join Still-Growing Fun Fun Fun Fest Bill

​Further proof that Fun Fun Fun Fest is making a serious run at Austin City Limits as the go-to Austin-based music festival this fall: Today, rather unexpectedly, the three-day, Transmission Entertainment-promoted event has added a few more names to its bill, including Austin heroes and ACL vets S ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest Starts Leaking Lineup, Announces Odd Future, X, M83 Performances

We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>

Summer In The City: Three More Local Festivals Announce July Lineups, Cheap Tickets.

​With Coachella and Bonnaroo now past us, it's safe to say that we're officially smack dab in the middle of summer music festival season. Unfortunately, this being Texas and all, and that meaning that it can get pretty warm around these parts, the well is rather dry as outdoor festivals on the hor ... More >>

Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire and Coldplay Highlight 2011 Austin City Limits Bill

​We had some fun yesterday trying to guess the bill for the 2011 Austin City Limits Musical Festival -- and, hey, we were right about Kanye West, if nothing else. Early this morning, the folks behind the festival announced for full lineup for their end-of-summer offering. And, as expected, the 10t ... More >>

The Toadies Return To Headline Annual Observer-Hosted St. Patrick's Day Concert

​After a three-year hiatus, the Toadies will return to headline the annual Observer-hosted St. Patrick's Day Concert on Greenville Avenue, which this year will take place on Saturday, March 12. As in previous years, with last year's festivities serving as a rare exception, this year's concert will ... More >>

Photo: Best Austin City Limits Fan Ever?

Caity Colvard​ At Austin City Limits this year, dad rock was at its finest on Sunday night with the Eagles serving as the festival's closers. We may have been exhausted (thanks a lot, allergies), but we definitely remember cheers from the opening riff to that "Hotel California" song. According t ... More >>

Menudo, Menudon't at the Hill Country's Las Comadres

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourMenudo! Donde esta Ricky Martin? Il n'est pas ici. Nein.​Like many of my fellow Dallasites, I spent this weekend in Central Texas. But I never gave a single Flo-Max laden Eagles fan directions to the Port-A-Potties. Nor did I cut any rugs to LCD Soundsyst ... More >>

ACL 2010 So-Far Superlatives: The Best Performers, Songs and Movements of Days One and Two.

Here we are, final morning of Austin City Limits, and we're getting all wistful and whatnot. It's a busy day ahead filled with North Texas connections like whoa: 15-year-old Dallas-born fiddle wunderkind Ruby Jane kicks the entire day off with her 11:15 a.m. set; Midlake will somehow have to physica ... More >>

Picture Show: The 20 Most Memorable Fans of Austin City Limits, Day One and Two

Patrick MichelsCheck out more photos from Day Two of ACL. ​Day three and it's starting to feel like Texas again. That is--the cool weather has vanished and it's hot as hell balls again. Shirts are coming off in the crowd. No shirts is a good solution to the swelter, but some fans have been choosin ... More >>

Picture Show: And So Austin City Limits Begins...

All photos by Nick RalloThe fans are already shirtless, dancing for GIVERS.​So it begins. Austin City Limits 2010 kicked off its heels this morning with Asleep at the Wheel, GIVERS and Charlie Mars. Thanks to the crisp, clear weather, we can show you some beginning pics. Of course, they'll be ... More >>

Good Friday: Fall Indie Fest, Matt & Kim, Fang Island, School Of Seven Bells, The xx, Morning Benders, Twin Sister, Cults, The National, Sarah Harmer, Two Door Cinema Club, Gaslight Anthem, Devendra Banhart & More!

​You may remember when I mentioned Grand Prairie's upcoming Fall Indie Fest in a story about suburban rock a few weeks ago. Well, Fall Indie Fest is finally here. While it doesn't have quite the same fanfare of the little festival in Austin this weekend, there is still reason aplenty to head out w ... More >>

Is the ACL Spillover Effect Just a Big Myth?

Q&A: Two Door Cinema Club's Kevin Baird Talks His Band's Fast Rise, Its Favorite Festival Moments and Its Problem With Light Beer.

In just four years, Two Door Cinema Club have gone from a group of high school buddies to rocking thousands at festivals all over the world. That much isn't necessarily surprising: The band's sharp, dance-infused indie rock has drawn comparisons to Passion Pit and Hot Hot Heat. And, while they may n ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Phantogram and Josiah Wolf Tomorrow Night at The Loft

The Barsuk recording artists in Phantogram are a pretty cool big beat electro-rock band that hail from New York. Think of a more upbeat Beach House, for a sense of their sound. Or just watch the above video.The band is currently touring in support of their new full-length record, Eyelid Movies, and ... More >>

Just Trust Us On This And Go Stream School of Seven Bells' Upcoming Disconnect From Desire In Its Entirety. Like Right Now.

We've made our adoration of School of Seven Bells abundantly clear in the past--many times, in fact. So, yeah, no surprise here: We're pretty stoked for the band's upcoming disc, Disconnect From Desire, which will earn its release on July 13. Have been ever since DFW native Ben Curtis gave us the sk ... More >>

School Of Seven Bells Announces Fall Tour, Includes Stop at Hailey's Club in Denton

In hometown-boy-done-good news, we just received a press release announcing School Of Seven Bells Fall headlining tour in support of their forthcoming album, Disconnect From Desire, which drops on July 13. Ben Curtis (formerly of local bands Captain Audio and Secret Machines) and identical twins All ... More >>

School of Seven Bells Announces Release Date For Sophomore Full-Length

School of Seven Bells​When we caught up with former Secret Machines- and UFOFU-er Benjamin Curtis at Austin City Limits this past fall, the current School of Seven Bells member gave us some insight into the sophomore release his band was working on at the time:"It's a bigger sound," he said. "It's ... More >>

So Good to Be Out of the Loop

Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 1: Crystal Antlers, Shonen Knife, Russian Circles, Death, Neon Indian, Jesus Lizard

All photos by Patrick MichelsDeath singer Bobby Hackney​Choosing Fun Fun Fun over the Austin City Limits festival this year was a no-brainer decision, and I have not regretted the decision to pass on Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam and Ben Harper for a nanosecond. Sitting on the soft grass and turning aw ... More >>

Miss Last Night's Austin City Limits Episode With St. Vincent and Andrew Bird? PBS Has Your Back.

​If, somehow, you managed to miss last night's KERA premier of St. Vincent and Andrew Bird's episode of Austin City Limits, the folks at PBS have done you a solid, friend: The whole thing--all 56 minutes and 46 seconds of it--is up and streaming at PBS.org, or, well, right here.And, in hopes of cu ... More >>

Halloween Observatory

Listomania: A Sountrack for Your Swine Flu Sickness

So, lately, pretty much the only thing on the minds of, well, everyone seems to be ways of refraining from getting any small strain of any sort of sickness--especially the infamous H1N1. Those who haven't been infected, pat yourself on the back and keep soaking up the Purell. Those who weren't so lu ... More >>

School Of Seven Bells' Alpinisms Set To Get Deluxe Reissue Next Week

​Speaking of reissues: School of Seven Bells, one of our favorite bands from the past year or so (local tie or no), is set to receive the deluxe reissue treatment next week for its phenomenal debut release, Alpinisms. Out October 13 on Vagrant Records, the reissue of Alpinisms will feature nine ex ... More >>

Picture Show: The Dead Weather at the House of Blues

Hal Samples​ Fresh off a killer performance at Austin City Limits, The Dead Weather crawled north for a House of Blues show last night--which you may have read about in Cory's review here on DC9.For another look at the show, Jack White, Allison Mosshart, a giraffe's head and all, check out this st ... More >>

ACL '09: Heartless Barstards' Erika Wennerstrom Soothes Our Souls

Photos by Patrick Michels​It wasn't the heat so much as it was the humidity--just like they say, really. But this humidity... on this day... in this mud... it was all pretty overwhelming at first. While their feet dragged through the mud, the rest of the attendees' bodies were forced to swim throu ... More >>

Dallas Observer Music Awards

The Kills, The Horrors

Saturday, April 25, at the Granada Theater

ACL Dudefest: M. Ward, David Byrne, Bobby Bare Jr. and Ryan Bingham

Red Monroe, Baboon, Pikahsso and Tahiti with Glen Reynolds

Saturday, September 6, at Club Dada

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup

Wheatfield

Friday, January 25, at Uncle Calvin's Coffee House

Andrew Bird, Arctic Monkeys Impress at ACL Day 2

ACL Day One: Top 5 Awesome Moments

ACL Day One: In Photos

Fire at Austin City Limits festival

Sure Hope You Like Norah Jones

Pop Quiz

Failure isn't an option

Really, Nobody Wants Free Flaming Lips Tickets? Shame.

Home with the Armadillo

ACL history visits the Gaylord

Austin Rumor Limits

Hot Hot Heat

The Texas sun outshone the stars at the Austin City Limits Music Festival

Well, it rhymes with City

The artist sometimes known as Chris Gaines comes to Austin

Tom Waits for no one

Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest