[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! --... more ›

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... more ›

With ACL just a little over a week away, we've found ourselves spending quite a bit of time at work thinking about all the bands we can't wait to see during the day, and deciding which after-parties to attend.Second to the hot weather, the task of figuring out which acts to see - and, sometimes, which acts to avoid at all cost - is our biggest concern. Certainly, we've had our hearts set on... more ›