As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, the 2013 ACL Festival (10 4 - 10/6; 10/11 - 10/13) was just announced, with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Vampire Weekend, The National, Phoenix, Wilco and many more among the acts playing this year. Weekend passes are on sale now and the full line-up is at BV.

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Vampire Weekend @ The Moody Theater - 3/17/2013

As we recently mentioned over on Brooklynvegan, Vampire Weekend have released the details of their upcoming new album, Modern Vampires Of The City. They head out on the road in April, and you can stream two of their new tracks now.

During their visit to Austin for SXSW, they stopped by The Moody Theater to help kick off Season 39 of Austin City Limits with VW's first-ever taping for the show.

Speaking of Austin City Limits, they have big things in store for Season 39 - rumored to include live streaming of performances. So far there are some great tapings to look forward to, including Grizzly Bear, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), Lumineers and Phoenix.

More pics of Vampire Weekend's ACL taping are below.

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Diana Ross @ The Moody Theater - 1/30/2013

In its relatively short tenure, The Moody Theater has hosted its share of legends (current and future), and Wednesday night was no exception with the amazing Diana Ross gracing the downtown stage.

Miss Ross opened from backstage fittingly with "I'm Coming Out," and as the curtains fell away the people rose to their feet and cheered their approval. By the time she began Spiral Starecase's "More Today than Yesterday", the entire audience was a sea of swaying bodies, waving arms, and of course many-a-cell-phone trying to capture a shot of one of the most successful female music artists in history.

Pictures of Diana Ross from the 1/30 show in Austin below.

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Gary Clark Jr. @ The Moody Theater - 11/30/2012

KLRU's Austin City Limits is now finished filming Season 38 of the longest-runnning live music show. Before they wrapped up for the year, Gary Clark Jr., who landed on Rolling Stones' Best Albums of the Year list, came and did his Austin proud for the second-to-last taping. From ACLTV's site:

"I've been wanting to do this for like 16 years," the young guitar slinger commented before he began. "So let's have some fun!" There's an irony to that statement being followed by the downhearted "When My Train Pulls In," but the heavy blues riffs defied the lyrics' melancholy cast. The show kicked into high gear immediately afterward with the driving fingerpicked boogie of "Don't Owe You a Thang," and the hometown crowd settled into the palm of his hand. "@garyclarkjr is slaying @acltv right now mayne!!!," claimed tonythecuate on Twitter.

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Esperanza Spalding @ The Moody Theater - 12/02/2012

It's a wrap: Austin City Limits filmed the last episode of Season 38 with Esperanza Spalding (and her Radio Music Society) at The Moody Theater. Coming just two days after Gary Clark Jr taped another episode, Esperanza and co helped KLRU finish the 2012 season strong. Pictures are in this post. More below...

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photos by Glen Brown

Austin City Limits - Day 3 - 10/14/2012

The Austin City Limits Festival wrapped up on Sunday (10/14), which marks the last single-weekend version of the event which goes to two next year. Day 3 pictures are in this post, and include a couple pictures of Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman who are in town through Fun Fun Fun Fest filming that movie with Ryan Gosling for Terrence Malick (who was all over Fun Fun Fun Fest last year).

We've covered a set of Jack White pictures and the Neil Young & Crazy Horse setlist and many Instagrams (as well as pictures from Day One and Day 2). More pictures from the final day of Austin City Limits continue below...

Continue reading "ACL Day 3 pictures: Iggy Pop, Crystal Castles, Gary Clark Jr., Lumineers, Die Antwoord, Moon Duo & more"

photos by Glen Brown

Metric's Emily Haines --- Austin City Limits Day 2 - 10/13/2012

You already saw one set of Jack White pictures and the Neil Young & Crazy Horse setlist and a whole bunch of Instagrams (and pictures from Day One). Here's some more pictures from Austin City Limits Saturday (rain included). They continue below...

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Very sad news... YNN says:

Authorities are trying to identify a body found in downtown Austin Saturday morning.
Police say the body was discovered floating in Shoal Creek near Third and Nueces streets. They say it appears to be a man in his early 20s. YNN received word from someone near Austin Music Hall that people saw the body in the creek.

A trail behind the Austin Music Hall was closed because of the investigation, which detoured some people headed for the Austin City Limits Festival.

Bassnectar played there Friday night (the body was found Saturday morning). Saturday night's show at Austin Music Hall was by the Weeknd who was supposed to play ACL today too, but cancelled. No shows are scheduled to happen there again until Justice on 10/30.

The Weeknd in Brooklyn In April (more by Bao Nguyen)

The Weeknd, who were supposed to play ACL Fest at 5:15 on the Barton Springs Stage today (11/14), have unfortunately had to cancel their performance due to the illness of frontman/main member Abel Tesfaye. DJ Mel will perform in their place. Bummer to hear, but feel better Abel!

The Weeknd did play an ACL "Late Night" aftershow last night (10/13) at Austin Music Hall though. If you were there, how was that?

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Jack White @ ACL Festival - 10/13/2012

While Neil Young & Crazy Horse did their thing at the other end of Zilker Park, Jack White & The Peacocks (his all-female backing band) cast a blue glow on the crowd at the AMD stage. Here are some pictures and the setlist from Jack's performance which maybe you also caught via the livestream. If not, it repeats again tonight (10/14). Watch and you'll see Jack perform a mix of solo, White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather material.

Or maybe you're busy tonight because you were lucky enough to get a ticket to see Jack tape an episode for ACLTV. If you didn't, it will air on PBS probably next year, like the Bon Iver episode did this week.

A full ACL Day 2 set of pictures is coming, but first a taste of what people will be seeing at The Moody Theater tonight. Pictures of Jack White & The Peacocks and ACL setlist below...

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Austin City Limits 2012

"NY&CH just put a festival audience through 10 minutes of complete kaos and feedback on WLAG - freeking awesome. Nobody on earth would try that to a bunch of drunk 25 year olds at the end of a festival day. I think they are speechless - or just freaked out. If I didn't know it was coming, I would be pretty freaked out." - Anonymous

Continue reading "Neil Young & Crazy Horse headlined ACL Fest 2012 (setlist)"

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James Mercer of The Shins @ Stubb's - 10/12/2012

The Shins played a sold-out ACL Late Show at Stubb's last night with Bombay Bicycle Club. Both bands play today at the festival - live and in person and also streaming online (as of this post, Bombay Bicycle is done, Shins @ 6pm CST). Check out more pictures from the Stubb's show along with both setlists below.

Continue reading "The Shins played ACL Late Show @ Stubb's (pics, setlist) ------ catch them today at the fest or streaming online"

photos by Glen Brown

First Aid Kit @ ACL - 10/12/2012

"Let's roll out the welcome mat for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which kicks off its three-day music bash at Zilker Park, bringing some of the best talent in the music world to Austin and tens of thousands of visitors.
Yes, there will be traffic. Yes, downtown will be crazy. But there also will be great music and a huge boost to the Austin economy. In all, the festival will draw up to 75,000 attendees daily, with most - 59 percent - coming from outside Austin, said Steve Alberts, communications manager for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau. And all of those people buying ACL tickets, staying in hotels, eating at restaurants or food trailers, hailing cabs, going to nightclubs, flying into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, buying souvenirs and bottled water, renting bicycles or a Car2go or buying anything that weekend will inject $106 million over three days. That is the 2011 total, and this year's economic activity from the festival is expected to match or top that." [Statesman]

Continue reading "ACL 2012 Day 1 in pictures: The Black Keys, Florence & the Machine, Alabama Shakes & more"

Follow @bvaustin

Follow BVAustin on Instagram for a daily feed of Austin concert photos, and for photos from Austin City Limits 2012 all weekend long. Or just come to this page which will update as we do.

Be there without having to be there. YouTube will be streaming this weekend's Austin City Limits festival live from Zilker Park. Full schedule and the webcast teaser below...

Continue reading "not at Austin City Limits? Livestream it (schedule)"

Ditch the Fest 3 on 10/12 @ 10/13 & GayCL on 10/14/2012

There's rarely a shortage of things to do in Austin come festival time, and this weekend during ACL is no exception. For those who want something different from the Zilker Park fare, Ditch the Fest 3 is happening on Friday (10/12) and Saturday (10/13) at The 29th Street Ballroom and The Spiderhouse Cafe.

There's also GayCL over at Cheer up Charlies on 10/14, a Rock The Vote party (RSVP) over at The American Legion on 10/12, and both KGSR and KUT will have special events outside of that-other-thing going on.

Yet another option for Friday is visiting Holy Mountain, which is the new face of the former Beauty Bar on 7th Street. They'll be having an after-party there with Learning Secrets and Omar S (tickets are $10, but you can splurge and get a "VIP Booze Buffet Pass" for $25!).

This is hardly all that is going on this weekend (Transmission Free shows too), so if you're not rocking at ACL and can't find something to do - you're just not trying. :)

Check out more details from Ditch The Fest 3 and GayCL below.

Continue reading "Ditch The Fest 3, GayCL and other non-ACL things are happening this weekend"

Free Transmission Events' Shows During ACL

While Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites is still weeks away, Transmission Events is bringing some FREE show fun during ACL. As per a recent tweet, they are doing it out of love:

For some great shows to keep things going long into the night during ACL on the cheap (FREE!), check out the full listings below.

Continue reading "Free Transmission Shows during ACL (because they love you) - La Sera, Lower Dens, Mono, Diamond Rings & more"

Alabama Shakes in Chicago last month (more by Level4 & Mary Michael Mario)

As mentioned, Alabama Shakes play Stubb's tonight (10/11) with Lee Fields and the Expressions, a show which is one of the many official ACL late night shows, a day ahead of their slot at ACL Fest. They play at 5:30 on the Barton Springs stage at ACL and will also be at the Waterloo autograph tent at 7 PM.

The huge Stubb's show is way sold out, the band are sure to attract a huge crowd at the festival, and they just played the giant Terminal 5 in NYC, but last month they played a super intimate and FREE "Dream Show" at Subterranean in Chicago, courtesy of American Family Insurance who also had the gig professionally filmed. Watch the videos, interview footage included, below....

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Questlove plays Beauty Ballroom on 10/13/2012

On Saturday night during ACL (10/13) ?Uestlove will be in Austin DJing at The Beauty Ballroom on a KnuckleRumbler bill that includes DJ Chorizo Funk and Riders Against The Storm. There's a rumor of a special guest, but why Leak Lamp Girls early?

Tickets are on sale, and we have a pair for you to win to go see the show. Details and a video of Questlove smashing pots and pans with chef Mario Batali, below.

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Dan Deacon & a few friends @ FFF 2011 (more on BVAustin Facebook)

As we mentioned back in July, Dan Deacon is touring the world to support his latest LP, America, and will be playing Houston at Fitzgerald's on Wednesday (10/10) and coming to Austin one day later for a Thursday night show at The Beauty Ballroom (10/11). ACL kicks off Friday, but Dan wont be around as he will already be headed to Dallas. This will be the last chance to see him locally in 2012.

Dan is also featured in Philip Glass' REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed on NPR's First Listen now.

Tickets to the Austin show are still available, and we have a pair you can win for the show too.

Check out the details to enter and win tickets below, along with a lit of 2012 dates.

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Season 38 of of Austin City Limits premiered last night on PBS with the Radiohead episode. If you missed it live in March, on TV, and in Republic Square Park, now here's your chance to finally catch it, via the video below...

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Radiohead in Austin (more by Tim Griffin)

To quote Austinist:

If you didn't make it to the Austin City Limits Radiohead taping earlier this year, and the video above makes you drool, be sure you're near Republic Square park by 8:30pm on Thursday (September 6). The first installation of ACL in the Park occurs then with a showing of the full one-hour Radiohead episode, as well as clips from the rest of the upcoming season.

Celebrating its 38th year, the television show broadcasts begin October 6 with the Radiohead performance. Other taped artists include Bon Iver, Bonnie Raitt with Mavis Staples, the Shins, Dr. Dog, the Civil Wars, and Punch Brothers, with seven more episodes/artists to be announced.

Continue reading "Radiohead ACL preview tonight in Republic Square Park"

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Quiet Company, The TonTons, and Bobby Jealousy @ Stubb's - 8/30/2012

On Thursday (8/30) Austin's own Quiet Company kicked off their fall tour at the Stubb's inside stage. They packed the house and pretty much went insane on stage (which was matched by the home-town audience's fervor) for their entire set with a quieter moment thrown in here and there, one being their cover of The Smiths' "Ask."

The TonTons (whose song 'Golden' was recently declared "Buzzworthy" by MTV) and Bobby Jealousy helped with the send-off. Bobby Jealousy are really killing it with their live shows; definitely worth checking out when they play Lambert's on 9/27.

Quiet Company will be on the road until their return for the ACL Festival. Pictures of all three, and QC's tour link below.

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Austin City Limits (more by Tim Griffin)

The 2012 official ACL Music Festival Late Night Shows have been announced. As many know, C3, who recently got approval to hold the fest two weeks in a row, sweetens the ACL weekend by scheduling many of the artists playing the sold out festival, in clubs around the city at night.

Highlights this year include Alabama Shakes & Lee Fields at Stubb's, The Shins at Stubbs, Metric, Polica & Half Moon Run at Emo's East, Crystal Castles & HEALTH at Emo's East, The Black Lips at Antone's, The Afghan Whigs at Antone's, Delta Spirit at the Belmont, and The Weeknd at Austin Music Hall. The full list is below.

In C3's own words:

The time has come! Now announcing the Official 2012 ACL Festival Late Night Shows! Even if you didn't get a ticket to the Festival, you can keep the party going in Downtown Austin's legendary live music venues and learn firsthand why Austin is called the Live Music Capital of the World!

Pre-Sale happens at 10AM CDT on Wednesday, August 22nd and you must be on the C3 Concerts e-mail list by 9:59 pm CDT on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 to get your passcodes! If you sign up before 9:59 pm on August 21 OR if you're already on the list, you'll receive your passcodes a few hours before the on-sale happening Wednesday, August 22ng @ 10AM CDT. Pre-Sale Tickets are limited and subscribing to the e-list does not guarantee you access. The Public On-Sale happens at 10AM CDT on Thursday, August 23rd.

Continue reading "ACL 2012 'Late Night' aftershows announced (Afghan Whigs, Metric, Alabama Shakes, Weeknd, Delta Spirit & more)"

ACL 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)

As mentioned on BV, C3 Presents just got approval to make Austin City Limits Festival two weekends starting in 2013. Meanwhile, this year's ACL fast approaches (Oct. 12 - 14), the schedule has already been announced, and is sold out.