Austin City Limits
Robert Plant - Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters perform at ACL Live in Austin at ACL Live - Austin, Texas, United States - Monday 21st March 2016
André 3000 - Outkast At ACL Fest at Austin City Limits Music Festival - Austin, Texas, United States - Saturday 11th October 2014
Eminem And Pearl Jam Among Headliners For Austin City Limits Music Festival
By Sophie Miskiw in Music / Festivals on 22 April 2014
Eminem and Pearl Jam are named as headliners for Austin City Limits Music Festival first weekend.
Eminem and Pearl Jam are just two of the big name acts chosen to headline the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival. Hosted in Austin, Texas, the three date event is scheduled to take place October 3rd-5th, with a second weekend from October 10th-12th. Lorde has been billed to headline the second weekend.
This will be the 13th year of the ACL Music Festival, with other headliners for the first weekend including Outkast, Skrillex, Beck, Lana Del Ray and Foster the People.
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Austin City Limits Music Festival Cut Short Due To Heavy Rain And Flash Floods
By Nick Hill in Music / Festivals on 14 October 2013
Due to heavy rain and flash flood the Austin City Limits Music Festival closes a day early.
Torrential rain showers and thunderstorms as well as some flash flooding has caused the Austin City Limits Music Festival to cancel the final day (Oct 14th). All 75,000 tickets were purchased by fans to attend the last day of the festival.
Lionel Richie was scheduled to perform at the festival
They will all receive a refund for one third of the cost of their tickets, according to the festivals website.
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Holly Williams Talks Festivals And 'The Highway' As She Gears Up For This Weekend's Austin City Limits
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2013
Holly Williams talks about her new album 'The Highway' and what it's like playing festivals compared to small shows.
Holly Williams is about to complete her 2013 US tour with just two more festivals to hit up this month starting with Austin City Limits Music Festival this weekend (October 4th-6th).
The country star, who happens to be the granddaughter of the legendary Hank Williams, has been hitting the road over the course of the summer, playing at the likes of Rhode Island's Rhythm & Roots Festival as well as supporting John Hiatt over his July dates. She has been promoting her stunning third album 'The Highway' which, she admitted in an interview, she thinks has done much better than her previous work because 'it feels much more authentically me and I feel like people respond to that better'.
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Austin City Limits 2013 Set To Return With A Stunningly Diverse New Line-Up
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 30 August 2013
What can we expect from another double weekend at Austin City Limits Festival?
Austin City Limits Music Festival is set to hit Texas for its twelfth year, bringing with it two weekends of fabulous live music and family fun.
The festival organisers first decided to spread the fun out over two weekends last year, in a bid to welcome yet more people into this unique world, and it appears that they haven't gone back on their word as they are set to return to Zilker Park on October 4th - 6th and 11th - 13th. This year sees some impressive headline acts including Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse and Kings Of Leon - and if that wasn't exciting enough, Atoms For Peace, Lionel Richie, Phoenix and Wilco are also high up on this year's bill! Some of the other acts scattered around are just as jaw-droppingly impressive, not to mention extremely diverse. We have Californian rockers Queens Of The Stone Age, country star Hank Williams Jr.'s daughter Holly Williams, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, LA sisters Haim, alt-folk group Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Nottingham singer Jake Bugg and legendary 'Gay Bar' hitmakers Electric Six.
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'Thao & The Get Down Stay Down' Hitting Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot And More
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 23 August 2013
Thao has a bad future ahead - catch her at the festivals this year.
The summer is beginining to edge away, and with Bonnaroo, Pitchfork and SXSW long-gone, music fans would be forgiven for packing up their tents and looking ahead for 2014.
But fear not, there's still plenty of festivals left for 2013, featuring some of the biggest and most diverse line-ups of the year. Austin City Limits probably represents the biggest of the lot, and although the line-up is one of the most high profile of the year - with Kendrick Lamar, Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon - there's also some up-and-coming acts and undiscovered gems ready to impress. They include Fidlar, Savages and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down is the stage moniker of Thao Nguyen, the singer-songwriter from Falls Church, VA, who first picked up a guitar at the age of 12 and is now considered to be one of the most exciting up-and-coming acts in the United States.
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Austin City Limits Announces Depeche Mode, The Cure, KOL, Lionel Richie
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 07 May 2013
The Austin City Limits line-up looks pretty impressive this year.
The two-weekend Austin City Limits festival in Texas has announced a varied line-up for this year's bash, with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Kings Of Leon, Muse, Atoms for Peace, Lionel Richie, Phoenix and Wilco on the bill. It will mark a return to the festival for KOL, though both Depeche Mode and The Cure make debuts.
Other notable acts on the bill for the six-day extravaganza - taking place on Oct 4-6 and 11-13 - include Vampire Weekend, D'Angelo, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, Grimes and Bon Iver's new project Shouting Matches. Tickets for the festival go on-sale today at 10am at alcfestival.com. For those less concerned with the marquee acts, the Austin City Limits festival appears to offer plenty of interesting options for festivalgoers this year. Portugal. The Man, Grouplove, Jimmy Eat World, The Black Angels, HAIM, Noah and the Whale, Silversun Pickups and The Joy Formidable are also confirmed to play sets.
Last year's festival saw performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Shins, Weezer, Black Keys, Florence + The Machine, Jack White, Iggy and the Stooges, The Roots and Two Door Cinema Club.
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