The question of what Jack White would sound liked backed by an entire band and not just the no-frills beats of his supposed sibling/actual ex-wife Meg White was answered when Mr. White, solo artist Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler formed The Raconteurs in 2005 and released their hooky debut Broken Boy Soldiers in 2006. Since then, the band has toured everywhere, released their sophomore album Consoler of the Lonely at the tail end of March, and are on the docket to play the Austin City Limits Festival again this September. ...

Photo courtesy My Guerrilla on Flickr[another wristband for the collection] Austin’s C3 Presents now has three major festivals to go along with their trio of Charlies. The producers of Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits Festival will put on the Vineland Music Festival in rural New Jersey Aug. 8 to 10, 2008. Vineland is a joint venture with Melvin Benn’s Festival Republic. The U.K. event producer’s portfolio includes the Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury festivals. Set......

unattributed press photo Regina Spektor at Stubb’sTuesday, November 6thStubbs [map]$22.50 SOLD OUT, doors at 7[venue info][Regina Spektor Website][MySpace]Tonight, Russian import and all-around cutie Regina Spektor will deliver her charming sense of humor and attitudinous tunes to Stubb’s. And if it feels like she was just here, it’s because she pretty much was, with an evening position at the Austin City Limits Festival followed up by an intimate performance for her ACL show taping—both of these......

Dallas native Ben Kweller is an interesting tangle of contradictions. He's 26, but his first major label album was released a decade ago. Kweller is an indie rock star, but lives in a Brooklyn brownstone with his longtime wife and young son. And his music is accessible and catchy, yet it hasn't quite found the large audience it deserves. Kweller returns to the Austin City Limits Festival for two shows this weekend to bounce......

Every fall, Austin looks forward to ACL Fest, and each year, there's always a point where two of your favorite bands are playing on different sides of the park at the exact same time. ACL Band Clash is a weekly series in which Austinist scribes Paige Maguire and Tom Thornton examine the worst ACL scheduling clashes, and try to provide good advice on finding a resolution. Well, good advice might be a stretch, but......

Every fall, Austin looks forward to ACL Fest, and each year, there's always a point where two of your favorite bands are playing on different sides of the park at the exact same time. ACL Band Clash is a weekly series in which Austinist scribes Paige Maguire and Tom Thornton examine the worst ACL scheduling clashes, and try to provide good advice on finding a resolution. Well, good advice might be a stretch, but......

The Austin City Limits Festival gang are smart enough to know that a) all the people lining up with their plastic cups full of merlot waiting patiently to see Los Lonely Boys and proudly displaying their It's Been a Crazy Weekend henna tattoos aren't just tying their kids up to trees when they leave, and b) there is an ever-growing market for music aimed at kids and families. Combining these two concepts (we assume)......

If you've seen You're Gonna Miss Me, Kevin MacAlester's unflinchingly intimate documentary about the bewildering life and times of Austin's own psychedelic-rock icon Roky Erikson, you were probably left wondering, with good reason, what direction Roky's life took when the cameras stopped rolling. Years of untreated schizophrenia, shock therapy and acid trips had taken such a toll on the erstwhile rock star that he seemed unable--or unwilling--to contemplate life beyond a spacey Grey Gardens-like......

This morning marks the release of the ACL 2007 schedule grid. This is probably the most stressful day of the year for the avid ACL festivalgoer, as hopes of seeing every act one likes are dashed when seeing how many of your favorite bands are playing at the exact same time. It's impossible to program such a big festival without a couple of conflicts, but three stand out to us this year as particularly......

The Austin City Limits Festival lineup is official, making this year's three day event a legitimate item of lust. In addition to the names you see there, the fest will include performances by Peter, Bjorn & John, Midlake, The National, Yo La Tengo, Sound Team, Pete Yorn, Ghostland Observatory, Joseph Arthur and many more. Right now, tickets are $145, and VIP passes are $1,700. VIP access, in case you're wondering if its worth the......

It might still be half a year away, but Austin City Limits Festival will be here before you know it: this week, they're offering their usual pre-sale special to a few dedicated music fans. Unlike the past first-come-first-serve approach, this year's $50 bargain passes (good for all three days) will be sold to a random selection of those in the ACL subscriber database. Anyone's eligible to enter, as long as they fill out this......

For those of you who thought that the weather at the Stones was purrfect, and how nice it would be to have ACL during the fall, or have just not figured out that Festivals happen at the end of summer…skip to the next post. Austin City Limits Festival, Pollstar’s Festival of the Year in 2005, has announced dates for the 2007 Fest. The festival will take place at Zilker Park from September 14-17. Start scheduling......

Only a week earlier, we had watched from afar (very far) as José González performed his subdued acoustic set on a massive Austin City Limits Festival stage. Though large crowds and larger stages aren't out of the ordinary for the Scandanavian superstar, José seemed much more at place at The Parish a few weeks later, where we sat down for a chat before the show. Are large stage shows and massive outdoor audiences difficult......

Well, I can't quite believe I'm finished. Last night I posted the few remaining previews, which means that for the second year in a row, I have previewed each and every act performing at the Austin City Limits Festival. I couldn't have done it without help though, so once again, I would like to thank John, JD, Jeff, Chris and Becky, who each contributed guest previews to help me finish my project. I would......

Maybe you’ve heard, but there is a festival going on this weekend. Well, what would an Austin City Limits Festival be without some excellent Austin City Limits television show tapings? The scheduled tapings are as follows: Calexico- Wednesday at 8 p.m. Van Morrison – Thursday at 8 p.m. Sufjan Stevens followed by the Raconteurs - Sunday at 8 p.m. Cat Power – Monday the 18th at 8 p.m. Damian Marley – Tuesday the19th at 9......

Maybe you’ve heard, but there is a festival going on this weekend. Well, what would an Austin City Limits Festival be without some excellent Austin City Limits television show tapings? The scheduled tapings are as follows: Calexico- Wednesday at 8 p.m. Van Morrison – Thursday at 8 p.m. Sufjan Stevens followed by the Raconteurs - Sunday at 8 p.m. Cat Power – Monday the 18th at 8 p.m. Damian Marley – Tuesday the19th at 9......

Maybe you’ve heard, but there is a festival going on this weekend. Well, what would an Austin City Limits Festival be without some excellent Austin City Limits television show tapings? The scheduled tapings are as follows: Calexico- Wednesday at 8 p.m. Van Morrison – Thursday at 8 p.m. Sufjan Stevens followed by the Raconteurs - Sunday at 8 p.m. Cat Power – Monday the 18th at 8 p.m. Damian Marley – Tuesday the19th at 9......

Only one more week and I'll be waking up in Austin, ready to put on an entire bottle of sunscreen and head out to Zilker Park for my favorite music festival in the world. I know you guys may have thought I forgot about you - but I've been hard at work on my Austin City Limits Festival Preview Page, trying to wrap up the project before the festival actually starts. From today through......

Another week, another batch of ACL bands from my Austin City Limits Festival Artist Previews Page. Here's the latest: Son Volt - After seven years and four solo albums, Jay Farrar returned to the studio with Son Volt and emerged last year with Okemah and the Melody of Riot, and proof that his group is still one of the best country-influenced rock bands out there. (full preview) The Long Winters - After about four......

Time for another look at some of the artists playing the Austin City Limits Festival in September. There are only 49 days left and I have oh... just about a ton of artists left to preview on my ACL Artist Previews Page. But rainy weekends are made for writing, so if the lousy weather in Nashville holds up, I'll have a more than a few for you next Friday. Here's what I've covered since......

We let it slide when ticket prices increase every year. We thoughtlessly shell out $3 for water or $4 for beer every year. And we even said "we'd go next year" when the dust from Zilker’s fields gave us dry mouths and black boogers for a few days. But the folks at The Austin City Limits Festival have outdone themselves this year (as well as overused the words deluxe, supreme and luxury) with their......

[Several weeks ago, we told you about a community radio DJ from Nashville who'd set out, for the second year in a row, to profile all of the bands playing this September's Austin City Limits Festival. We've invited Janet Timmons of Out the Other to join our staff as a guest writer -- she'll be providing weekly summaries of the latest bands she's covered on her fantastic ACL Artist Previews Page. Welcome, Janet! --......

One of our more credible sources just informed us that Sufjan will indeed not be playing Austin City Limits Festival this September, though he'll be headlining back-to-back shows at the Paramount on the 15th and 16th and taping a segment for KLRU's Austin City Limits TV show. Tickets to the Paramount dates, as well as many others on Sufjan's fall tour, will be available tomorrow at 10am at GetTix. These will likely sell out rather......

Although the Austin City Limits Festival lineup page does not reflect it, a search on Gettix.net reveals that Sufjan Stevens is scheduled to perform on September 15 at 9 pm. Now before you tie a bandana around your neck and buy your girlfriend a ticket, keep in mind this hasn't been made official anywhere. However, it sounds about right to us that he'd be added this late, and without much fanfare. Remember the scavenger......

Last summer, a community radio DJ from Nashville set out to accomplish the unthinkable: she was going to profile every single band scheduled to play at Austin City Limits on her mp3 blog. We followed her progress ever since she contacted us about the Herculean endeavor; mostly, we just wanted to see at what point she'd finally throw in the towel and say, by god, enough. She did, of course, finish the entire roster. This......

Like most attendees, our biggest frustration with last year's Austin City Limits Festival was the wretched dust cloud blanketing Zilker Park after the first day. With tens of thousands of people milling about and the daytime highs between 98-107 degrees, everything was worsened by the fact that the park was already suffering from drought-like conditions. But not anymore, if Capital Sports and Entertainment (CSE) and its massive coffers have anything to say about it. Perhaps......

Billboard online has reported that Tom Petty will be one of the headliners at this year's Austin City Limits Festival. The first leg of his summer tour will feature opening act Trey Anastasio and will be followed by a run of six shows that includes Pearl Jam as part of a double-bill. The second leg of the tour will feature the Allman Brothers band and the Dereck Trucks Band. The opening act for the......

It’s rare to find a musician that has performed for thousands at the Austin City Limits Festival, is a classically trained cellist, and still gets on stage at open mic night with his best friends for a touching rendition of “Man Beers,” the holiday classic they composed moments early during a MGD shortage. Austin Hartley-Leonard, front man for local rockers St. James, is one such artist. It should be obvious that their upcoming Momo’s......

So we're not sure if you heard, but there was this little festival going on this past weekend. They call it the “Austin City Limits Festival”. We call it “Hell Fire Dust Fest”, or the “holy shit I ran out of sweat again and there is mud in my ears” field of bands. There was a hurricane wrecking shit in the gulf, and we couldn’t catch even a nip of cloud cover**. Now that’s......

One of the great things about the Austin City Limits Festival is that since so many folks are in town for the weekend, bands decide to book extra night shows. Therefore, you spend all day at the Festival then trudge out into the night and listen to music until 2AM. Then you wake up and do it all over again. (Always remembering to stay hydrated, of course. In the words of one of our......