Care for just a little danger with your ACL? You don’t have to make a bunch of dangerous cuts on the football field. Just see Santigold, who did something I’ve never seen before. The veteran alt-rock[…]
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Tag: Austin City Limits Music Festival
Traffic Jam: ACL lineup is a bull’s-eye; single reviews for Spoon, Blakchyl
Let’s jam. It’s been a long, long time since I added to the ranks of this sporadically recurring feature, in which I columnize on several things at once. But “several things at once” has been where[…]
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Interview: Urban Heat’s Jonathan Horstmann spins neurodivergence into gold
Usually, when you interview local musicians at Austin City Limits Music Festival whom you know to be playing their first ACL — like longtime local Jonathan Horstmann — it’s an easy, early warmup question soon after[…]
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Quick reaction to ACL: Austin, we have a lineup
Assuming it’ll be safe in October, Austin City Limits Musical Festival will get an A for existence. No doubt Weekend 1 sold out the same day the lineup was released, in part, for this very[…]
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ACL Weekend 2, Day 1 quick reaction: The misery that wasn’t, and best song performances
The fear was that Day 1 would be miserable. Ultimately, it was more refreshing than anything. According to an unimpeachable source — a guy on the 803 bus, one of those randos that gives you the[…]
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