This will sound like a strange premise, but I can be strange, so stay with me for a second: Imagine that you’re blind, you fall asleep on a blanket at ACL, and you wake up[…]
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Tag: Austin City Limits
ACL Day 1 quick recap: Wet Leg becomes an artistic double threat; Phoenix est très bien; and my feet get a reprieve
Anybody who does all three days of ACL — really does it, as oppose to just camping in one convenient spot all day — knows what it does to your feet. Specifically, it murders them.[…]
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Shows: Vandoliers @ 3Ten ACL Live
Pretty much as soon as Vandoliers began playing Thursday night, I thought about when the last time was that I’d heard anything that could be described as “cowpunk,” or even heard the term. Even in[…]
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Shows: Snail Mail @ Moody Theater
“You guys wanna know something crazy? We’ve never played a bad show in Austin,” Lindsey Jordan — aka Snail Mail — told fans early in her show at the Moody Theater on May 2. “I[…]
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ACL Weekend One overview and day three recap
It’s no surprise that activism and anger took on a prominent role at Austin City Limits Weekend One — especially in light of a certain Texas law that recently went into effect and got an implicit,[…]
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Black Pumas vs. Megan Thee Stallion: Picking a winner in the heavyweight scheduling conflict of ACL Weekend 1
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Barring a cancellation, I’ll be at Weekend 1 of Austin City Limits, my fifth consecutive year at the festival (as you’ll recall, there was no 2020 edition) and my third straight as[…]
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