The Raconteurs performed Sunday night at ACL. (Dawn Jones-Garcia) Look for plenty more ACL coverage trickling in here this morning, as we continue posting photos and show recaps from the big finish at Zilker Park. More of the Raconteurs after the jump, and shots from other shows coming soon…
If nothing else, corny dog challenger Warren Street was able to keep his lunch down. (Patrick Michels) One of the great disputed records in sports was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at the State Fair of Texas, as last year’s corn dog-eating co-champions faced off against a dozen challengers in…
It’s one thing to get a band tattoo. It’s quite another to appropriate as your own makeshift family crest. Read more here…
The Black Keys performed Saturday night at ACL. (Mark C. Austin) Fogerty, Roky Erickson, Beck and more… Catch the rest of the photos here…
The Octopus Project (Dawn Jones-Garcia) Austin-based electronic rockers The Octopus Project took the stage Sunday at ACL. More scenes from their show after the jump…
As this guy can tell you, by the third day, it’s all about staying cool. (Dawn Jones-Garcia) As the final hours of ACL tick away, we salute all those still standing. It’s been a hot mess of a festival, and those in it for the long haul had to get…
Neko Case Granada Theater September 27, 2008 Better Than: Just about anything else you could be doing on a Saturday night. The evening began with Giant Sand led by Howe Gelb, a frequent collaborator with Neko Case. Gelb moseyed on stage with a button-down denim shirt and cap, looking like…
The Black Keys followed their night at the Granada with a set in the park (Dawn Jones-Garcia) Our slideshow of ACL performances — the cream of our photo crop — is up here, and will be on our front page for a good long while. First, though, a run back…
The Black Keys Granada Theater September 26, 2008 Better than: Standing next to a drunken lawyer all night, listening to him extol the virtues of The Black Keys, telling you how they could’ve toured with Cream. The night could not have been more of a yin and yang evening. The…
M. Ward performs Friday (Mark C. Austin) Be on the lookout in the coming hour or two for a slideshow compiling the best of our ACL photo team’s work from the first couple days. For now, enjoy more work from festival photographer extraordinaire Mark C. Austin. Read more here…..
Rhett Miller’s pants take the band’s “train wreck” motif to a whole new level (Dawn Jones-Garcia) It just wouldn’t be a Texas music festival without these guys. Check out more shots from our photographer on the scene after the jump, then, in case you missed it, read Jesse Hughey’s take…
(Dawn Jones-Garcia) A few more looks around the crowd at ACL, with this fall’s hottest fashion trend after the jump…
Manu Chao (L.A. Reno) A treacherous wifi failure in Austin’s Zilker Park (somewhere near bad Red Rope licorice in the pantheon of festival disasters) kept the posting slow yesterday, but here’s hoping for clear signals ahead on day 2. As Saturday morning rises over the hill country, we give you…
The crowd may be where it’s at, when it comes to giant novelty cowboy hats, hula hoop circles and Lone Star tall boys. But ACL kicked off Friday with a respectable start to its all-star lineup. Gogol Bordello (Dawn Jones-Garcia) More from Observer photographer Dawn Jones-Garcia after the jump…
As the first night of ACL rolls on, a few more sightings from the festival crowds: He was from Scotland. Oddly enough. I was totally waiting to toss off some “Duh-Duh, what a loser” caption thing, but his being Scottish humbled me. Those guys are like Texans with brass balls…
Of course, a humongous outdoor festival like ACL is as much about the parade of sweat-soaked, under-dressed humanity as it is about the bands. With that in mind, here’s just a brief look around Austin’s Zilker Park this afternoon. This guy wanted me to chug my Lone Star tall boy…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Austin. (Mark C. Austin) ACL has just kicked off (let me hear it, Dan Dyer fans!), and we wanted to drop yet another hint that DC9 is the place to keep your browser parked, and refreshed, all weekend. With a team of DC9…
Celtic punk mainstays Flogging Molly played the House of Blues last night, and DC9 was in the front row to snap these shots of lead man Dave King, tin whistle and fiddler Bridget Regan, and the rest. –Patrick Michels…
This was the weekend to talk about talking like a pirate, swill giant brews in Addison and kiss your summer goodbye. Course, that also means it’s nearly time for chicken-fried bacon at the fair — three days and counting, as Big Tex is put in his place this morning. Photos…
