Artist: Austin City Limits Festival
Live Reviews from web archive October 1, 2008
Austin City Limits Music Festival
There were times during the seventh annual Austin City Limits Music Festival when I wondered, really wondered, what the hell I was doing there. Most of the bands I could conceivably want to see were bands I had seen before, in multiple settings, and I didn’t have to breathe acres of dust, stand for hours [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
“What kind of surprise you gonna hit me with?” Lucinda Williams asked mid-afternoon on day three of ACL 2007. The festival had already given its answer: the unwelcome kind. A week beforehand, the White Stripes canceled (illness the stated reason, Meg White’s anxiety and stage fright the speculation), to be followed by po-mo-Mexican guitar duo [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
In its fifth year, The Austin City Limits Festival continues to pose many questions, but one is straightforward enough for this review: “What is rock ‘n’ roll?” Rock ‘n’ roll, to begin, is in the blood. Day One: Ted Leo jumped off a 6-foot stage to rap out “Ballad Of The Sin Father” to the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
Hurricane Rita huffed and puffed but did not blow down the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Because predictions said nearby Houston would suffer a direct hit, it was assumed ancillary storms would force cancellations of a portion or all of the festivities in Austin. Turned out Houston was largely spared and, besides the influx of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
If last year’s inaugural Austin City Limits Music Festival was The Godfather, then this year’s edition was Godfather II — bigger, sleeker, glossier, and arguably better. Expanded from two days to three, boasting a correspondingly bigger array of acts, and as glitch-free as human ingenuity could ensure, the sophomore edition of the ACL Fest demonstrated [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
Shawn Colvin stood alone, dwarfed by the big stage, and surveyed a sight she has viewed hundreds of times before: an outdoor festival crowd of sun-baked bodies spilling across a grassy plain. “This is a familiar scene,” she said to the rapt crowd. “But it’s never been Austin before. It just makes sense, doesn’t it?” [...]
