Posts Tagged ‘Austin City Limits’
Austin City Limits 2013: The Cure, Depeche Mode, KoL, Atoms for Peace, Muse and More
On Monday night, The Austin City Limits Music Festival announced its 2013 lineup and its definitely one of the strongest major festival lineups of the year marked by LMB favorites like Atoms for Peace, Wilco, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, Tame Impala, Phosphorescent, Portugal. The Man, Toro y... more
Live Music Blog’s Best of 2012: Concerts, Albums, Artists and More (Part Two)
Last week, we rolled out Part One of LMB's Best of 2012 feature, highlighting this year's noteworthy albums (Tame Impala's Lonerism, Jack White's Blunderbuss and Alt-J's An Awesome Wave), artists (Alabama Shakes & Father John Misty) live moments (Phish Dick's 8/31/12, MMJ's 3-night LA "no repeats run" & Sigur Ros... more
Austin City Limits To Live-Stream Gary Clark Jr.’s ACL Taping 11/30 at 8PM CST
Austin's own rising star, rock 'n' soul phenomenon Gary Clark Jr. makes his highly-anticipated return to Austin City Limits (ACL) this week, and ACL announces the taping will be live-streamed on Friday, November 30th at 8 pm Central Time. Fans can log-on to ACL's YouTube Channel and will have the... more
Live Music Blog’s Best of 2012: Concerts, Albums, Artists and More (PART ONE)
While there's still plenty of live music magic yet to be made, the end is near and 2012 will be in the rear view in five short weeks. Furthermore, December is generally a skinny month for studio releases (although Big Boi's Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors drops on 12/11) so... more
TOUR DATES: Dr. Dog to appear on ACL this Saturday
If you're gonna be out and about, set your DVRs on Saturday night! LMB favorites and veteran road warriors Dr. Dog will be bringing their vintage-flavored melodies and fun loving whimsy to the Austin City Limits stage this Saturday, October 27 for their first performance on the famous PBS TV... more
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
Austin City Limits’ New Season Kicks Off Tonight with Radiohead
The popular one-hour music program Austin City Limits released their schedule for their 38th season on PBS. Tonight the show premieres with a full hour of Radiohead from their King of Limbs tour. Next week on October 13th it's Bon Iver and in the coming weeks LMB favorites... more
ACL Festival 2013 Expands to Two Weekends
Taking a page from the Coachella 2012 two-weekend automatic sell-out success that went down earlier this year, our friends at C3 have booked next year's ACL Festival for two weekends as well. This is a obvious huge win for the city of Austin and bound to be an "instant"... more
INTERVIEW / RECAP / PHOTOS: Big Gigantic @ Governors Ball 2012
Big Gigantic played The Governors Ball on Saturday just after 2pm. They are out in full force on festival-tour this summer and are in support of their latest release Nocturnal. As they took stage, Dominic (production/sax) welcomed everyone..."Thank you all for coming! We are happy to be here and are... more
Heady Links: YouTube Festival Couch Tour, SXSW Finishes Up, Paul Simon and more…
Happy Monday, folks. Here are some links and news items and random other things to get you through the rest of your day... Late last week, Dell and YouTube sent out a press release announcing that they're partnering up to offer free, live webcasts from Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin... more
VIDEO: Wilco Live on Austin City Limits, Gear Porn with Nels Cline
Wilco's live performance on Austin City Limits is now available on the site for all of us to check out on our own time...so, let's do this: Watch Wilco on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits. These guys have been so consistent on this tour... more
VIDEO: Florence + the Machine / Lykke Li on Austin City Limits
The latest episode of Austin City Limits featuring Florence + the Machine and Lykke Li has been posted online. Don't miss it. Thanks, KLRU! Watch Florence + The Machine / Lykke Li on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.
VIDEO: Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom Live on Austin City Limits
Here's another great weekend video option from the fine folks over at Austin City Limits: Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom. Watch Fleet Foxes / Joanna Newsom on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits. Man, no matter how many more times I hear it, "Helplessness Blues"... more
VIDEO: Arcade Fire Full Performance on Austin City Limits
Well this is a nice way to spend your Holiday. Austin City Limits has published the full video of Arcade Fire's recent performance on the show. Check it out: Watch Arcade Fire on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits. Even on TV, they're still able... more
YEAR IN REVIEW: Artists Share 2011 Live Music Highlights
For whatever reason, in music, as is the case in just about any other line of work, some days don’t glue themselves to the long term memory bank like the others. However, on any given night, certain indescribable circumstances can converge, lightning-and-a-bottle can be captured, magic can happen, and an... more
Year In Review: LMB NOLA Staff and Friends Live Music Highlights
This little corner of the Internet would not be possible without the hard work and support of the people below. We’ve got an eclectic confederation of folks keeping the wheels turning at LMB NOLA and we hope you enjoy reading our memories from the year in music.
@LMBNOLA: The Head and the Heart @ One Eyed Jacks 9/20/11
After setting a nice tone on Sunday in Austin before a sizeable crowd, The Head and the Heart routed on through the Crescent City on Tuesday night for a stop at One Eyed Jacks in support of their excellent self-titled album out on the legendary imprint Sub Pop Records.... 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
@LMBNOLA: ACL @ Nite – Sunday Evening in Zilker Park From Above
One of the best parts of both C3 juggernaut festivals (Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits) is the fact that they both take place in beautiful city parks within striking distance of the Chicago and Austin downtown areas. This is great both (a) because it makes for easy access to all... 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
