Music Notes: ACL Updates, Austin Music Hall, Los Lonely Boys
Festivals: ACL 3-day passes are all gone. Oh, snap! Don't despair, though - day passes go on sale tomorrow for $50 plus $8 in service charges through Frontgate Tickets. For those with tickets already in hand, note that the official ACL Fest schedule grid will also be released any minute now. Get out your highlighters.
Venues: After a couple of years of limited bookings, the Austin Music Hall is getting a facelift this fall. Direct Events announced a plan to the Statesman to increase the venue's capacity to 4,000, add a restauarant, and improve acoustics. There's also a new, rather GSD&M-looking facade coming to the building. Direct Events seems to imply that the refurb is intended to increase winter and spring bookings of medium-sized tours (think artists like David Gray and The Strokes) and capitalize on the new 'downtown lifestyle' everyone is selling these days. Completion is scheduled for early summer 2007.
Bands: If you are a fan of Saxon Pubbers made good Los Lonely Boys, purchase a copy of their new disc at Waterloo Records pronto. If you do, you'll receive a wristband good for an free afternoon 'soundcheck' show at Stubb's later this month.
Bands redux: If you are an 80's music whore, here's a surprising concert announcement: Pet Shop Boys are heading to The Backyard in October. Tickets go on sale this weekend. Buy some, then pick up that hot girl at Rock The Casbah by offering up a date with an East End Boy. Yeah.
Image via Matt Wright.
