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Austin Sound Check

August 26th, 2008

Austin City Limits Festival | Don’t Listen to the Naysayers

 
Exactly one month from today, the Austin City Limits festival will kickoff at Zilker Park here in Austin. This year’s lineup has gotten mixed reviews across the blogosphere, however I still maintain that this is an excellent lineup. You just have to get past some of the headliners.
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant. Really? I couldn’t […]

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August 11th, 2008

This Week in Austin | Smoking Popes, Outlaw Nation, Lots of Local Love

 
This week, Austin is a veritable cornucopia of good local music. It’s too hot to do anything during the day, so hit the clubs after dark when it’s nice and cool out.
Band of Heathens, She Craves and The Boxing Lesson are all playing this week. All three happen to be featured on Feedback Vol. 1, […]

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August 1st, 2008

ME TV receives Three Telly Awards

 

ME TV, Austin’s 24 hour music entertainment channel, has received three bronze Telly awards for ME Live! from Austin. The Telly Awards are in the live event category for in-studio performances featuring Alpha Rev, Band of Heathens and Hanson’s The Walk Tour.
The Telly Awards have been honoring the best in local, regional and cable TV […]

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May 19th, 2008

This Week in Austin | Bun B, Full Service & More

This week’s big highlight is Bun B (of UGK) coming to town. There will be an in-store appearance at Music Mania at 5pm on Wednesday, followed by the show at Emo’s later that night. I’ll have a feature on Bun B, Pimp C and UGK later this week.
In the meantime, don’t forget about the Shearwater […]

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April 15th, 2008

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 […]

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