Gillian Welch must have read our earlier post about Friday’s redheads, Patty Griffin and Jenny Lewis. She and partner David Rawlings took the theme and ran with it in their cowboy boots. First there was “Red Clay Halo,” from their touchstone album Time (The Revelator), and later there was “Knuckleball…
Maybe you saw Jesse Hughey’s story on Spencer Krug (pictured above) and Sunset Rubdown in this week’s paper and said to yourself, “Wow, that guy’s in a lot of bands I really like–like Wolf Parade and Swan Lake, and Sunset Rubdown! If it weren’t for this damn economy, I’d be…
Sharon Jones, with a little help from a new friend (Dawn Jones-Garcia) The best fan-participation moment came during Sharon Jones’ set, when not one but two different random slobs got onstage to dance with the funky soul siren’s set. The first guy was a bearded, burly dude who came out…
(Dawn Jones-Garcia) I want to like the Foo Fighters, I really do. Since Nirvana, Dave Grohl has always come off as a really likeable guy for a rock megastar with a gift for catchy hooks and big rock choruses. But about a half hour was all I needed before the…
The Foo Fighters performed Sunday night at ACL. (Dawn Jones-Garcia) Don’t miss our slideshow of select shots from our entire photo team — but to delve a little deeper in to ACL’s last day, check out more work by the classically trained Dawn Jones-Garcia after the jump…
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…
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 closest the MySpace generation will get to its own Bruce Springsteen is Tom Gabel, lead singer/guitarist of Gainesville’s Against Me! And if by any chance you aren’t swayed by the comparisons to the Boss, then he and his band could also be the Clash, circa Give Em Enough Rope…
Erykah Badu (Dawn Jones-Garcia) With all apologies to Beck and Sharon Jones, nobody I’ve seen has completely owned the crowd from beginning to end the way Erykah Badu did yesterday afternoon, from the raucous applause that greeted her as she slowly and confidently strode on stage during the funky soul…
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…
I got a pleasant surprise for this ACL weekend when I checked in at the press office Friday. Included among our wristbands was a set of VIP passes for all three days of the festival. I had hoped to get a glimpse of the VIP Grove to see what could…
Running on fumes, I’m pretty sure I’ve started hallucinating. I keep looking for tomorrow’s schedule and can’t seem to find it anywhere. Surely it has nothing to do with the Butthole Surfers scorched-earth reunion show at Stubb’s – they closed with “The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey’s Grave”; next month’s…
Remember when we had a beach in Galveston? That was awesome. Read more…
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…
Drive-By Truckers: Early voting suggests this is the set to beat. The afternoon’s first layer of grime was damn near inviting on opener “That Man I Shot,” from their most recent, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark. But we weren’t sure about Patterson Hood’s preacher-man monologue on “18 Wheels of Love.” Someone…
Beck (L.A. Reno) Beck opened up his closing set on Saturday night with 1994 watershed hit “Loser,” the song that was his would-be one-hit wonder. That took some cojones, but when you have a catalog as maniacally diverse and innovative as his, it’s a moot point. As the oppressive sun…
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 last time I saw Spiritualized, five or six years ago at the Gypsy Tea Room, the light show was incredible. The choreographed strobes and beams of light cutting through the smoke were such an integral part of the experience that I wondered how a daytime set would be. Well,…
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…
(Dawn Jones-Garcia) I got there just as a sample of R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” intro’d the Plairs’ funked up song of the same name. “Where’s Mayor Wynn?” Blakes asked, trying to get him on stage. It didn’t happen, but they gave a soulful…
