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ACL Fest - Day One

Coco of The Ettes After parking about a mile from the park I made my usual stop at Green Mesquite for some good Texas BBQ. From there it's one crazy mile of restaurants, food carts, bottled water pushers, street musicians and vendors selling everything else from tobacco to tie-dye. When I hit the park entrance I hesitate. Surely it's a trick. There's sunshine. It's 82 degrees. The grass is green. And dry! Time to forget the monsoons, the mud, and the desert-like temperatures of the past. Time for music. Someplace between Oasis at their loosest and The Ramones at their...  read more

ACL Fest 2010 - Unofficial Morning Pre-shows

ACL Fest: Preparing for the Day One more thing to love about Austin is the first-day, Friday morning coverage of ACL Fest on local radio stations KUT and KGSR. Each has early, live concerts with ACL performers on air. I started with KGSR's broadcast from Threadgills, listening to Australia's Angus & Julia Stone whose beautiful "American" harmonies and folk melodies fit perfectly with the Austin vibe. The station's morning guys, Bryan Beck and Andy Langer, also happen to be two of the more music-knowledgeable guys in radio. (Which is great because we're not hearing questions like "Who writes your originals?")...  read more

Live R.E.M. DVD in the Oven

Perfect timing for all those folks writhing in impatience over the release of R.E.M.’s new studio album … The live DVD R.E.M. Live From Austin, TX drops Oct. 26....  read more

Austin City Limits 2009 Schedule Announced

Bring on the heat, bring on the music, bring on the stage shuffling! Austin City Limits' annual festival will take place Oct. 2-4 this year, and the festival's website recently posted the weekend's schedule.The interactive site allows concert attendees to craft their own personal schedule, so as not to miss out on any of the over 100 artists slated to grace the eight ACL stages. ...  read more

Paste presents ACL 2008 kick-off party

All of you making the grand promenade down to the musical explosion that is the Austin City Limits Festival, be sure to RSVP to join Paste at our official ACL 2008 Kick-Off Party this Thursday, Sept. 25 at Emo's. ...  read more

Thomas Function tours into November, joins Paste at ACL

Thomas Function, the Alabama band that considers itself part of an ongoing "rock-n-roll renaissance," begins its fall tour next week. The band's debut, Celebration, came out earlier this year (it's quite good, if we do say so ourselves), and the guys are looking forward to the November release of a 7". Below are the dates, along with TF's new "Filthy Flowers" video—be Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} sure to check out the band's...  read more