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Coldplay New Year's Eve: An Austin City Limits Special

Once again, the networks will be broadcasting their typical New Year’s Eve fare—movie marathons, cooking show marathons and, of course, Times Square marathons (including the we’re-still-so-cool-we-can-leave-off-the-G Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve). But, thanks to PBS, there’s now a welcome option. For the first time in its 36-year history, Austin City Limits hosts a New Year’s Eve concert, with Coldplay being the one and only performers during the 90-minute special. The band gives its usual soaring and convincingly earnest performance with Chris Martin singing his little angst-filled heart out on songs like “Yellow” and “The Scientist.” It’s just one of...  read more

Radiohead to Play Austin City Limits

Radiohead will appear on an episode of Austin City Limits, Consequence of Sound points out. A release on ACL’s website confirmed that Radiohead, along with The Shins and The Civil Wars would be among the acts in season 38 of the concert series. The concert will broadcast on PBS after taping.   read more

Terrence Malick and Christian Bale Seen Filming at ACL

Terrence Malick was seen filming Christian Bale at the Austin City Limits Festival this past weekend  read more

2011 Austin City Limits Day Three Recap

Another exhilarating and exhausting ACL Fest came to a close on Sunday.  read more

2011 Austin City Limits Day Two Recap

Vendor peddling shirts outside of the festival Saturday night: "You'll never have a volume problem with a Stevie Wonder T-shirt!"  read more

2011 Austin City Limits Day One Recap

Two Texas storms helped kick off ACL Fest on day one. First, the drought-stricken 'Live Music Capital of the World' was blessedly drenched in a brief, sunny rain.  read more

Austin City Limits Announces Season 37 Lineup

Austin City Limits has announced the line-up for their 37th season. This will be the first season that every show will be taped in the newly build Moody Theatre since the historic Studio 6A was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.  read more

The Nine Best Music Shows in the History of Television

You can't throw the remote these days without hitting a TV show that revolves around music.  read more

11 Eco-Friendly U.S. Music Festivals

The weather is heating up and so is festival season. This summer millions will flock to various parts of the country to see their favorite bands and undiscovered talents. In doing so, a lot of garbage will be created. Just think of all the water bottles, food containers and not to mention the carbon emissions from the travel to get there....  read more

Watch Monsters of Folk on Austin City Limits

Monsters of Folk—the indie-folk supergroup consisting of Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, M. Ward, and, more recently, Will Johnson of Centro-matic—performed on “Austin City Limits.” PBS.org has the entire show streaming now, and we suggest you take an hour to watch the guys effortlessly switch from bass to guitar to piano to drums to electric ukulele to…...  read more