Help+Us+Book+ACL+Festival+2010 Take one and a half minutes right now to vote for five bands that should be booked for the Austin City Limits next year. I'll even help you, the first two bands should be Quiet Company and the Rocketboys. The third one should be Lucas for Sheriff. Then you can pick any other two bands you'd like. I picked Midlake and Eisley because I wanted ...

... have been a fan of the Pixies for a long time and I even saw them when they reunited at the ACL festival in Austin, TX, but this show just popped up on me. I guess I have been so busy lately I just didn’t realize the show was coming up.  Boy ... in the mind.  I think the 3 shows at The Palladium in November 2009 demonstrate that without question. Photo by Scott Kampmeyer for the ...

... bikes at Austin City Limits music festival - so many, there were even some hanging from trees. We biked in the first day, but didn't bother on days two and three. It reminded us of Amsterdam. During ACL we also discovered another use for our wedding boots - protecting our feet ... search on YouTube for Mud Boy at ACL Festival 2009. But don't worry - thanks to the boots, we came out fairly ...

... gone to Austin for a music festival, following South By Southwest in March and the ACL Festival last month. The other two occasions were primarily work-related; this one, I went to for fun fun fun ( ... what I’m talking about. And don’t say, “We do have that! It’s in Richardson at Wildflower Festival.” Unless you’re trying to make me laugh, in which case, thank you.)

Phoenix turned out one of the most favored sets at this year’s ACL Festival and has quickly been taking the indie-rock world by storm. The band has an Austin date scheduled @ La Zona Rosa on Dec 17th along with Hockey, and local breakouts White Denim. This will sell-out fast!! Tickets on sale Sat @ 10 a.m.

Alberta Cross was a pleasant surprise for me at ACL Festival, now they are on Daytrotter.   The last few days have seen some really sweet gems pop up on a  couple of my favorite sites…let’s get to it.   Daytrotter has welcomed a host of excellent artists recently. Here are a few of my favorites - Bobby Bare Jr. -Lucero - ...

Pearl Jam closed out last month’s Austin City Limits Festival with a mindblowing performance, and beforehand they did a taping for the long-running ACL television show for 320 lucky fans, ... be, but I never dreamed I’d see the day that Pearl Jam would appear on the ACL stage, especially considering they seldom do TV,” said Austin City Limits producer Terry ...

... month, a big music event opened in Austin last weekend to fine weather and revelers decked out in their festival finest. Then, as with October's ACL Fest, the skies opened up over last weekend' ... working in the rain, the bands kept on rolling. Jesse already offered his rundown of the festival's Saturday and Sunday performances. After the jump, we've got ...

... Jets would like you to believe that it’s not over. Thank you, duly noted. The Jets Training Facility was a finalist for a World Architecture Festival Award. There was a chat about the new stadium earlier this week on the Jets site. After tearing his ACL, Bills WR James Hardy is back with the team.

... and despite such a growth, I'm more than comfortable still calling it a locals' festival. I don't know why - maybe the fact that placing it in Waterloo Park makes it seem like we covertly hijacked ... by that point the rain had been slowly coming down for a good hour at least. If there's anything ACL taught us about rain and our music festivals though, it's that we really can't ...