Posts Tagged ‘ACL Fest’
FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Austin City Limits Music Festival 2012
Preview by Mark Wheeler LMB's ACL 2012 Playlist on Rdio The older one gets, the more shows one attends in proper venues, it gets easy to snob on festivals - no disrespect to the kiddies in their neon war paint and NBA jerseys. Festivals seem to recycle the same reshuffled lineup (yes,... more
ACL Fest 2012 Lineup: RHCP, Neil Young, Black Keys, Jack White and more
The lineup for ACL Fest just dropped officially after a few days of leaking out a few of the artists all around Austin via scratch off clue cards. This year's fest will be headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Black Keys, Jack White,... more
ACL Fest 2011 Highlights (Animated GIF Edition)
When @LMBNOLA editor Wes got his new camera and started throwing together animated gifs from the shows he had been seeing, I was immediately hooked. Behold...here's a collection of photos from ACL Fest 2011 in animated GIF format. It's hard to portray how much fun a festival can really be,... more
@LMBNOLA: 2011 Austin City Limits Festival Wrap
Austin City Limits served as the ultimate break from the status quo, an ephemeral voyage to a utopia far removed from normative daily life, embedded in the heart of one America’s most interesting cities. Also, the extended weekend was a long overdue first trip to Austin, TX for me personally,... more
PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Fleet Foxes @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY THREE)
The final set that I shot at this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival was a band I was super excited to see having missed their last roll through the Bay Area...Fleet Foxes. My buddy saw the show down in Big Sur and was totally blown away, so I... more
PHOTOS: Death From Above 1979 @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY THREE)
After a pretty chillaxed Broken Social Scene set to start my day three at ACL Fest, I met up with my crew and caught a thrilling end to the Bomba Estero set. We all agreed that set was amazing and definitely got that world-music-dance vibe down, which got me... more
PHOTOS: Broken Social Scene @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY THREE)
We've got a few more photosets to get posted from this year's ACL Fest, but we were definitely a bit more mellow on our coverage of the third and final day of the festival. At least I was. A bit of that fatigue sets in and you start... more
PHOTOS / REVIEW: Stevie Wonder @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
To finish off our second day at ACL Fest 2011, I got the pleasure of shooting a few minutes of the Stevie Wonder set that was headlining the west side of the park while Cassidy Blackwell hung back and took in the whole set as a fan. Read on... more
PHOTOS: TV On the Radio @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
After the epic Cee Lo set on Saturday at ACL, I ran over to the other end of the field and caught the TV On the Radio set (well, most of it). The band was in prime attention in the photo pit and the band came out strong with... more
@LMBNOLA: PHOTOS/VIDEOS – The Head and the Heart @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY THREE)
The Head and the Heart was my first set of the day yesterday at Austin City Limits and we were lucky to be able to get up sidestage at Google+ to get a few pictures of the band’s excellent early afternoon performance. For those unable to make it to Austin,... more
PHOTOS: Cee Lo @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
Cee Lo Green easily won the prize for "hottest band" (not literally) at this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. Most artists did indeed bring an extra level of production to the stages at ACL Fest and the fest and audience only demands the highest of their artists, but... more
PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Skrillex @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
One of the most highly anticipated sets of the entire ACL Fest 2011 weekend (judging from the size of the swelling mid-day crowd) was young up-and-comer Skrillex, who's going to be gracing the cover of Spin's next issue. The set was insane and the crowd got so bad even... more
VIDEOS: Iron and Wine @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
After an absolutely blow-out Day One at ACL Fest and tons of amazing photo opportunities for yours truly, Saturday seemed to present a few new set of challenges at the festival that I wasn't fully prepared for. First and foremost, the rain was threatening and it was starting to... more
@LMBNOLA: ACL Sunday VIDEOS (Arcade Fire, Manu Chao, Bomba Estereo & the Lee Boys)
Much more to come from the final day of this year’s Austin City Limits festival. Continue on for videos and a few photos from yesterday.
My Morning Jacket: New Dates (SF, LA, NYC), Videos from ACL Fest
Good news for My Morning Jacket fans just dropped in my inbox. While the band is coming off a triumphant headlining set on Saturday night at ACL Fest, they're looking ahead to a December full of awesomeness with the announcement that they'll be playing dates with Sharon Jones &... more
VIDEOS: Official ACL Fest 2011 Recaps
Happy Monday, everyone. It's been a busy weekend for us here at LMB HQ (as you can see with the ton of posts over the weekend). Me and Wes have been partying it up at Austin City Limits Music Festival down here in Austin, TX and covering some... more
PHOTOS: Roundup from ACL Fest 2011 (DAY TWO)
For my second day of Austin City Limits Music Festival, I was psyched to be greeted with some rain and an amazing set from Iron and Wine, more rain and some serious whomp-ass dubstep from Skrillex, a sexy set (with amazingly sexy backing band) from Cee Lo, beautiful noise from... more
@LMBNOLA: ACL Saturday (MMJ, Phosphorescent, Wanda Jackson & more)
As far as the weather goes, the second day at Austin City Limits was a godsend. Most of the day was committed to Americana, folk, roots and country music (with a brief stop at Skrillex out of pure curiosity) and My Morning Jacket rounded out another excellent day in Zilker... more
PHOTOS / WORDS: Kanye West @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
To finish off our first day at Austin City Limits Music Festival, we raged hard at the Kanye West set through all three acts and every bit of over-production that you'd want and expect from Kanye. The words that follow were written up by Cassidy Blackwell of Natural Selection,... more
PHOTOS: Coldplay @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
Coldplay was an unbelievable cool band to get to shoot. Seeing the band play "Yellow" and really kick up their stage theatrics was exactly what I had hoped to see and it came out in the second slot of the set. The crowd really ate it up and... more
PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Pretty Lights @ ACL Fest 2011
As my first day of Austin City Limits Music Fest rolled on, I left Santigold early to go shoot Pretty Lights, but upon arriving to the pit promptly as "I Know The Truth" began, the security informed me that I needed a special armband proving my photo pit status for... more
PHOTOS: Santigold @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
Yesterday was the first time I've ever seen Santigold live; her set at Austin City Limits Music Festival was mid-evening and a perfect time to get people into some of the bigger names coming up following her show... I was totally blown away. I liked her style, voice and beats... more
PHOTOS: Foster The People @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
Foster The People are a band that I've heard quite a bit about but I had no chance of seeing them live or really diving into their catalog before this year's ACL Fest. Their set on the Google+ stage was nothing but triumphantly, eclectic indie rock and everyone in... more
@LMBNOLA: ACL FRI – Kanye, FUTUREBIRDS, Big Boi, Reptar, Santigold & More…
Top 5 Shows of the Day – Friday 1. Santigold 2. Reptar 3. Big Boi 4. Kanye West 5. FUTUREBIRDS
PHOTOS: Big Boi @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
Yesterday at ACL Fest, Big Boi did exactly what he did not do at this year's Outside Lands Music Festival -- he showed up. With a backing band and a greatest hits catalog that any artist at yesterday's first day of ACL would have been envious of, Big Boi by delivering... more
PHOTOS / WORDS: James Blake @ ACL Fest 2011 (DAY ONE)
Yesterday was an amazing first day out at Zilker Park in Austin, TX for this year's 10th running of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I caught a few sets to warm up the day, with my first exposure to both Delta Spirit and Fool's Gold leaving me nicely... more
ACL Fest: It Begins!
The Austin City Limits Music Festival just began! I'm freshly lathered in sunblock and I've got a cheap poncho on the way to make sure I can shoot the festival with no exception, and our buddy Wes is already on the scene and caught a (likely) raucous set by... more
ACL THURS: FUTUREBIRDS, J. Roddy Walston & The Business and Delta Spirit @ Emo’s Outside – 9/15/11
Last night at Emo’s Outside I re-realized why I’m such a big Delta Spirit fan and have been since the the release of their rookie record Ode To Sunshine. In short, these guys know how write good songs and deliver them on the live stage every time. Like the great... more
@LMBNOLA: 10 Must-See Artists at 2011 Austin City Limits Festival
Alas, Austin City Limits weekend is upon us. As is generally the case with these monster fests, the amount of talent we’ll be seeing in Zilker Park is hard to fathom and my currently aggressive plan of attack will undoubtedly vary greatly from what actually occurs over the next four... more
ACL Festival 2011 Webcast Schedule Announced
http://youtu.be/Er4vugx4n4o The ACL Festival kicks off this weekend, and we'll have some official coverage here on LMB as well as LMB NOLA (you can check out our preview coverage here and over on LMB NOLA). But if you're not lucky enough to be heading down to Zilker Park in Austin this... more
@LMBNOLA: 510 Miles & 2 Days 2 ACL: 3 Must-See Artists @ ACL 2011 on Day 3
It’s almost time to pack it up — ACL is now a mere two days away. With Gary Clark Jr.’s amazing show last night at House of Blues and tomorrow night’s FUTUREBIRDS/J. Roddy Walston and the Business bill at One Eyed Jack’s, the mini-ACL that goes on here in New... more
