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Category: ACL Fest 2014
The best Austin City Limits 2014 headliner: An Austin 360 staff poll
Covering “Baba O’Riley” and going quietly into the night with a meaty, playful but resonant “Star-Spangled Banner” from guitarist Mike McCready, Pearl Jam valiantly closed the 2014 Austin City Limits festival just on the mischievous, neighbor-bugging side of 10:00 p.m. Sunday. Eddie Vedder politely shouted out his co-headliners during his band’s brilliantly sharp set, “St. Vincent, OutKast, Eminem–they’re all very kind people.”
That may be true, but now that we have two …
ACL Fest announces 2015 dates, early bird sale Oct. 21
While the rest of us were busy knocking the mud off our boots, posting those last Instagram pics we couldn’t get across in the field and gushing about how we can’t believe a 17-yr-old could be capable of dropping the stunning performance that Lorde delivered, ACL Fest organizers went and got all 2015 on us, announcing next year’s dates and the early bird ticket sale via their mobile app.
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Lorde, for one night, the most popular woman in Austin
As soon as the opening note to “Glory and Gore” sounded Sunday, arms holding smartphones shot up en masse. Lorde, already iconic, emerged in an all-black ensemble. And that’s exactly what half the festival was there to see.
Scene report: Turnpike Troubadours at Austin Ventures stage
While the masses of ACL Fest gravitated to the RetailMeNot stage’s mud plains for Sunday’s weekend-two-only highlight Lorde, and EDM fans flocked to the Miller Lite stage for a spectacle of electronic music and lights …
Replacements replaced by Replacements at ACL Fest
Those who caught the Replacements at ACL Fest last Sunday were treated to a blitzkrieg of the band at their best. Cramming 19 great songs into an hourlong set on the Samsung Galaxy stage, …
The flags, faces and frogs above ACL crowds
The flags, balloons and signs that are such a common sight at ACL Fest weren’t out in large numbers yesterday — maybe for fear they might act as lightning rods — but elevated landmarks of all sorts were back in abundance on the final day of ACL 2014’s second weekend as the sun broke through the clouds late in the afternoon. The most popular streamers were the flags of various …
Phantogram finds its ‘Voices’
You could call Phantogram as an easy breakout back in March during South By Southwest when it overloaded The Mohawk for a Friday afternoon day party. Unlike swaths of synth-oriented present-day pop acts, the two-piece …
Johnnyswim don’t sink during stomping folk sing-along
Tennessee-based husband-and-wife duo Johnnyswim and their band were all dressed in black on the BMI Stage this afternoon. Though they were on the little stage at the big festival, their stomping folk rock was energetic …
Kongos brightens up ACL with accordion alt-rock
Kongos brought their positive, accordion-spiced alt-rock to a sprawling, enthusiastic crowd under gray skies at the Samsung Galaxy Stage.
The South African band of brothers’ most unique surface-level feature is the use of the aforementioned accordion, …
