photos by Tim Griffin

"An estimated 200,000 people journeyed the grounds of Zilker Park this weekend for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The descent of the iconic guitar sign Monday signified the end of an incredibly successful ACL Music Festival, and with eight stages and 130 bands, clean up is expected to take the rest of the week.

"This year's ACL was one of the best. The weather was incredible," City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department spokesperson Victor Ovalle said.

The show's producer, C3 Presents, takes care of cleaning up Zilker Park, and the city sends crews into the surrounding neighborhoods to remove any trace of music fans who know how to have a good time.

After C3 Presents leaves the park later this week, fertilizing and watering the grass will city's number one priority." [News 8 Austin]

Friday pictures HERE. Lucero HERE. The xx HERE. Mayer Hawthorne HERE, the rest of the Saturday HERE, Flaming Lips HERE, and the rest of the pictures from Sunday (and the conclusion of our 2010 Austin City Limits coverage), below...

Continue reading "ACL 2010 Day 3 in pics (Foals, Eagles, Yeasayer, Norah Jones, Ted Leo, Devendra Banhart, Morning Benders & more)"

Free Sonic Youth tickets are being given away at noon.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for both of the NYC shows theMelvins and Big Business are playing.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for both of the NYC shows Tim Fite & The Watson Twins are playing.

Titus Andronicus added yet another NYC to their schedule. This one is at Mercury Lounge in July and tickets are on sale at noon.

Tickets are still available for the Love is All, Crystal Stilts, Versus (reunion) show at Bowery Ballroom on Monday. Tickets just went on sale (@ noon) for an August 15th +/- show at Mercury Lounge. Versus broke up in 2001. James and Patrick from Versus formed +/- the same year.

Goes Cube, Pax Cecilia and Naam are playing Europa tonight (June 12). First person to email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Goes Cube) goes for free. Include your first and last name. Last time Goes Cube played a NYC show, they called themselves Dagger God.

Other free shows are listed in the free show calender.

The still reunited-sorta Eagles announced some shows including four in the NYC area. Regular tickets don't go on sale for a week, but the presale for American Express card holders starts this morning. All dates below....

Continue reading "Eagles - 2008 Tour Dates (MSG), tickets & presale"