![]() ![]() You’ve got some rock legends, indie electro standouts, indie folk starlets and trending hip hop heroes. Sunday, 3:45 – 4:30, Austin Ventures Stage Dan's GuideĪCL’s national act lineup this year is a smorgasbord of exemplary genre stars. Into this band, so don’t miss their performance. Venture obviously allowed them all to push their creative boundaries. Of these groups in Bad Books’ music, but there are some clear “oldies” tones this They are definitely worth checking out, especially because ACL will be one the band’s last shows in America before touring around the world for a while.īad Books is the pairing of Kevin Devine (along with his “Goddamn Band”) andĪndy Hull (with part of Manchester Orchestra). Stars is a Canadian band that features a male and female vocal duo with hauntingly beautiful music at times and uniquely upbeat music at others. Shows are consistently amazing and full of raw energy no matter what size the Florence Welch is a true performer – her live With Florence + the Machine as one of the headliners this year, a lot of people Or during this performance, making this an easy decision. There are no “must see” artists playing right before Play catchy indie rock songs, while easily filling the space between with surprisingly Tegan and Sara put on extremely entertaining live shows. If you want me, those are the stages you can find me. Doesn’t it always go that there are long stretches of musicians I can care nothing about, only to have two of my festival favorites play on opposite ends of the grounds right next to each other? Or how I have to miss Die Antwoord and part of the Old 97’s in order to catch The Weeknd whereas I could stand to lose anything after 7pm that same day. Whatever.)īut if I had to pick three bands that I am most excited to see, they would be Weezer (Fri at 6:15), M83 (Fri at 7:30) and The Weeknd (Sun at 5:15). It irks me that these bands don’t get better spots, or that there aren’t more of them. Saturday from 11:15-1:40 sees Quiet Company, Wild Child and the Wheeler Brothers in that order, while Sunday gives us the Eastern Sea at 11:20 and Gary Clark Jr at 2:15. I have to plug the local bands – this is a great opportunity to show your out-of-town friends the great talent we have here, and there won’t be anything competing with them since they all play at ungodly early hours. Here is the OVRLD staff’s recommendations about what to catch while you’re at the Festival: Carter's Guide That said, if you find yourself burdened with a ticket to this year’s festival, you’ll somehow be able to squeeze some fun out of it. It lacks both the combined star-power and overall coherence of Fun Fun Fun Fest, and if ACL is going to two weekends next year (as is apparently the case), they’ve got to step it up. There are so few difficult decisions to be made because there are so few artists for any one person to be interested in. In and amongst that is scattered funk, jazz, gospel and numerous other hard-to-categorize acts. Ward), indie (M83, Crystal Castles, Metric, The Shins, Polica), and good old-fashioned rock and roll (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White, Neil Young, Weezer, Iggy Pop). There’s hip-hop (The Roots, Childish Gambino, Die Antwoord, Big K.R.I.T.), electronic (AVICII, A-Trak, Bassnectar), country (Randy Rogers, Steve Earle, Old 97s, Patterson Hood), folk (Avett Brothers, Trampled by Turtles, Punch Brothers, M. Frankly, the problem seems to be that ACL wants to be everything to everyone, and in doing so becomes only some of the things to everyone. The Fun Fun Fun Fest lineup puts this one to shame. We are certainly blessed to live in a town where ACL is only the second-biggest festival of the year, but this year it looks a lot more like the third-biggest festival. The 2012 ACL Festival is almost here, and the general atmosphere among the OVRLD staff appears to be apathy. ![]() Austin City Limits Festival Show Previews Shows 0 Comments 285 views ![]()
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