And you thought Lollapalooza and Coachella brought the heavy hitters. The Austin City Limits Festival announced its full lineup this morning, and the dancecard is jammed up with every band imaginable floating on the meniscus of the blog-love bubble. That means Bob Dylan, Björk, the White Stripes (missing from Coachella and Lolla), Wilco (missing from Lolla), Arcade Fire (everywhere all the time), Muse, My Morning Jacket, Queens Of The Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Spoon, the National, movie stars CYHSY, M.I.A., and hey even Bloc Party and the Killers. You’ll even get to hear Crowded House, and we’ll assume there will be less water bottles involved since Rage won’t be making the trip. Of course Lolla tops ACL with YYYs (for those left fuming in BK), TVOTR, Interpol, the Hold Steady, Modest Mouse … but hey this is ACL’s day. Full lineup lovingly transcribed by these fingers after the jump.
Bob Dylan & His Band
Björk
The White Stripes
The Killers
Wilco
Arcade Fire
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Queens Of The Stone Age
Bloc Party
Arctic Monkeys
Gotan Project
Joss Stone
Damien Rice
Robert Earl Keen
Lucinday Williams
Spoon
Blue October
Indigo Girls
The Decemberists
Paolo Nutini
Regina Spektor
Amy Winehouse
Crowded House
Steve Earle
Ziggy Marley
Stephen Marley
Kaiser Chiefs
LCD Soundsystem
DeVotchKa
Augustana
Amos Lee
M.I.A.
Ben Kweller
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Andrew Bird
Bela Fleck & The Flecktons
Ghostland Observatory
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Revered Horton Heat
St59 (Sound Tribe Sector Nine)
Yo La Tengo
Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Zap Mama
Blonde Redhead
Eli Young Band
Aterciopelados
Heartless Bastards
Raul Malo
James Hunter
Mighty Clouds Of Joy
Del McCoury Band
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective
Asleep At The Wheel
Ryan Shaw
Will Hoge
The National
Beau Soleil
Midlake
Grace Potter And The Nocturnals
Railroad Earth
Dax Riggs
Sound Team
The Legendary Soul Stirrers
Charlie Musselwhite
JJ Grey & Mofro
Young Love
The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker
Ian Ball
The Little Ones
Manchester Orchestra
Patterson Hood
Billy Joe Shaver
Fionn Regan
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
John Ralston
The Broken West
Rose Hill Drive
Grandon Rhyder
Ocote Soul Sounds
Sara Hickman
Willy Mason
Jon Dee Graham
The Paul Green School Of Rock All-Stars
Kevin Devine
Nicole Atkins & The Sea
The Ike Reilly Assassination
Greyhounds
Guy Forsyth
Adam Hood
Cary Ann Hearst & The Gun Street Girls
The Jones Family Singers
The Gospel Silvertones
The Shields Of Faith
Sylvia St. James
Jeffrey Steele
Amy Cook
Trent Summar & The New Row Mob
Back Door Slam
Mario Matteoli
Kara Grainger
One Mississippi
Kevin McKinney
Jennifery Nicely
Sahara Smith
The New Soul Invaders
The Wonderful Harmonizers
Loretta Williams Gurnell
Amy Loftus
Amy Lavere
The Steps
We Go To 11
The Sippy Cups
Daddy A Go Go
Farmer Jason
O Brothers Jambo Kidz
The Bummkinn Band
The Jellydots
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no okkervil…bummer
I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS. whooooo.
I can’t find anything to complain about (for once). If a body can see the Indigo Girls and M.I.A. in one place, then that place is the place to be.
um. longest festival list ever?
think so.
Surprised Ryan Adams isn’t playing, with his new record coming out.
Maybe he will be added later.
Disgusting lineup.
Does the LCD in your top paragraph refer to LCD soundsystem? Because they are on the list.
Where is m83 these days? They put on a great ACL performance 2 years ago at like 11am on that wonderful 110 degree day..
anyone sick of festivals yet?
> Does the LCD in your top paragraph refer
> to LCD soundsystem? Because they are on the list.
Wow, it does, and you’d think I’d have noticed while typing it up. Alas this was before my coffee and oatmeal. Thanks, fixed!
No Octopus Project? Weird.
is this better than the other festivals combined?
finally an ACL fest worth going to. yay for me.
MMJ! Maybe some new jams will surface.
three days for $145! Who can beat that? Not Coachella.
the only bad thing is that the temp’s are the same in coachella and acl, but it’s worst down in austin due to the overwhelming amount of humidity….it’s like being in a sauna for 8 hours a day….and the sun beating down on your face….good times, seriously, i love austin!
At the 2004 ACL Fest it was something like 100 degrees all 3 days. And Zilker Park has next to no shade whatsoever. Ugly.
But odds are I’ll be going anyway.
julio, are you serious? austin in september? try houston in july or southern florida in august. austin in september is a cakewalk.
thank you, sdb. try louisiana in the summer. austin is NOT humid
this lineup is definitely better than last year’s. and hopefully i’ll be local this round.
there.
> anyone sick of festivals yet?
YES! God I couldn’t be more sick of reading about all these god damn festivals. There must be a new one announced every week. What ever happened to getting to see your favorite bands at a real venue not sponsored by heineken, cingular, or sbc?
Zilker no shade? There is TONS of shade, just not in the spot where the bands play. All you have to do is cross the road and hit the Barton Springs Pool which is 68-70 year round.
it’s pretty extreme to me because i’m coming from denver that has 0 % humidity and shit is dry as a bone round deez parts….but i can imagine fla in the summer or even houston, ewww…my back’s sweating just thinking about it…
Humid heat or freak cold front, I don’t care. I’ll be happily hopping from stage to stage. Hooray DeVotchKa! So much good stuff!
Humid heat or freak cold front, I don’t care. I’ll be happily hopping from stage to stage. Hooray DeVotchKa! So much good stuff!
eq – you’re sick of festivals? That’s one of the most basic means of touring for musical acts! If Pete Townshend has his way you’ll be complaining about the good old days when musicians used to go out on tour instead of broadcasting the concert over the internet. So, I wouldn’t knock it until you find a better way of doing things.
ju ju bean – i was making a small comment on the recent spurt of festivals. name your area and chances are, if there’s not a festival there within a 500 mile radius already, an organizer will coin up one in the coming weeks. with most lineups being more or less the same, i’m no longer feeling the individuality of festivals like i used to. that is all.
eq…did you actually read the lineup? beyond the headliners? doesn’t look even remotely similar to any other festivals i’ve seen…
cool line-up, wish i could go.
boycott this corporate acl festival taking hush money from AMD ( one corporatesponsors of the festival stages )until they stop the new office complex on has Polluted the Barton Springs watershed in Zilker Park with huge amounts of sediment that washed off their sites with modest rains on March 26Th(1.49 inches at Camp Mabry and 1.2 inches at the airport). It was enough to wash untold amounts of construction pollution off two large building sites in the fragile Barton Springs watershed. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) polluted the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer with dirty runoff leaving their construction sites. Fortunately, we were there to take pictures and video of the pollution.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is building an 860,000 square foot office complex in the Barton Springs watershed. Rains on March 26Th washed construction sediment over, around, and literally through AMD’s erosion and sedimentation “controls.” The result is muddy, silt-laden water leaving the site and flowing into a tributary of the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer.
Save Our Springs Alliance and many other groups and thousands of citizens urged AMD not to move to the Barton Springs watershed, in part because of concerns that they would pollute the aquifer and springs during construction. AMD insisted that they would their project would be “green.The City of Austin has reportedly given AMD a notice of violation of city rules, but the City did not issue a stop-work order or fine AMD.
please tell all the bands this there will be a protest this year will presidential hopefuls coming to Austin where the fuck you going to coll off if it gets into the 100,s like most years Visit the SOS Alliance Website
221 E. 9Th Street, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78701
personally, not a fan of festivals. aside from the corporate sponsorship, there are a lot of environmental and socioeconomical concerns that are ignored when entire armies of (mostly) spoilt youths invade and (sometimes) leave a trail of destruction behind (anyone remember the lollapalooza rapes and fires??? that’s an extreme example of course; the kind lahipster s talking about)
also, the argument of how festivals “support” touring bands is kind of OFF considering how most of the unsigned, truly indie bands never get selected for a decent slot at major festivals b/c there are too many big/crossover acts involved that get 99% of the attention
festivals is just good business. its not about the music so much imho. Cramming 3 zillion bands into 3 days sounds more like quantity vs. quality to me…
oh wait i was referring to the Re-Woodstock… with Korn and Limp Biznit and all that ish