Austin City Limits Festival lineup released
Aside from being tired of the over-played Foo Fighters, this lineup is pretty exciting. The depth of the lineup is incredible and the variety of genres covered is impressive.
We’ve got modern rock (Foo Fighters, Beck, The Raconteurs), oldies but goodies (John Fogerty, David Byrne), indie blog darlings (Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, The Black Keys), Austin finest (Okkervil River, White Denim, Black Joe Lewis, Nakia & His Southern Cousins) and even hip-hop and R&B (Erykah Badu, Gnarls Barkley, N.E.R.D., Bavu Blakes). Rest assured I’ll be bringing you more in depth looks at some of the lesser known artists once September draws a bit closer.
For now, I’ve listed some of my personal favorites below as well as other notable highlights. I’m an ACL diehard, this will be my fifth year in attendance. Needless to say the three day pass was purchased long ago.
You can see the full ACL lineup on the official website.
Foo Fighters
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Beck
John Fogerty (CCR!)
The Raconteurs
The Mars Volta
Gnarls Barkley
N.E.R.D.
Erykah Badu
Tegan & Sara
Iron & Wine
G. Love & Special Sauce
Band of Horses
Silversun Pickups
Gogol Bordello
Against Me!
Jakob Dylan & The Gold Mountain Rebels
Okkervil River
Slightly Stoopid
Flyleaf
Stars
Del the Funky Homosapien
MGMT
Jenny Lewis
M. Ward
Yeasayer
White Denim
Scott Biram
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves
Bavu Blakes & The Extra Plairs
Band of Heathens
2 Comments
Whoa, this is the best lineup I’ve seen in several years. And N.E.R.D. will be there! After listening to the clip, I understand why they caught your attention–very cool group.
No MIA! Sadface.
I’m excited about this, though. Never been all that thrilled with the past lineups.