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Big stage at Stubb’s packs big meaning for Austin-based Tritonal
By Chad Swiatecki, special to the American-Statesman When Chad Cisneros takes the stage on Friday at Stubb’s with his DJ and music production partner Dave Reed, it won’t mark the duo’s biggest show in...
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ACL Fest announces changes for 2016
Fest producers decided to update some regular features for the 15th anniversary of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. See what’s new above. Read more about programming at Austin Kiddie Limits....
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Austin360 On The Record: Willie Nelson, Folk Uke, Jesse Dayton and lots more
OUT THIS WEEK Willie Nelson, “For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price” (Legacy). Following February’s album of George and Ira Gershwin songs with this collection of Ray Price classics might suggest...
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No lines for this year’s ACL Fest student ticket sale
In 2013, Ally Trevino was first in line for the Austin City Limits Music Festival student ticket sale at The Belo Center for New Media’s KUT Public Media Studios on the UT campus. Rodolfo...
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Watch: A Monday Night Flash Mob for Chris Gage at Donn’s
Singer Christine Albert called it a “pseudo Austin style Flash Mob” as she rallied the troops to gather at Donn’s Depot for a surprise party to celebrate her husband Chris Gage’s 21-year anniversary...
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Weekend picks: Alabama Shakes, Rhiannon Giddens, James Blake and more
Friday: Alabama Shakes at Austin360 Amphitheater. Brittany Howard is one of the most fascinating lead singers in rock music today, largely because of her stunning range. One moment she’s belting out...
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Kinky Friedman likes Trump: `Jesus rode into town on a jackass.’
Kinky Friedman performed at Strange Brew in Austin Thursday night, and, after the show, said he preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton for president. Friedman, who was an independent candidate for...
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Get to ACL Fest on time for Jazz Cartier’s early Saturday set
Jazz Cartier is playing a noon set Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Photo by Jess Baumung By Chad Swiatecki, special to the American-Statesman At Emo’s recently a sort of...
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Best of Austin Music, September 2016: HAAM Day, All ATX, Tameca Jones and more
AN AUSTINTATIOUS MONTH If this weekend’s arrival of the Austin City Limits Music Festival primarily spotlights touring bands, the rest of September offered plenty of opportunities for locals to shine....
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New EDM Festival, Middlelands, Coming to Texas Spring 2017
Like dance music and camping? A new festival co-promoted by Austin City Limits Festival producer C3 Presents and Insomniac, the company behind the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas announced plans...
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ACL Fest 2016: Tory Lanez obliterates crowdsurfing standards
Toronto’s Tory Lanez made it through one song before ditching the brown jacket. He’s an attack-minded bully breed rapper who uses his entire frame to elicit jumping. But he’s also a song-and-dance...
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Radiohead delivers instant classic in long-dreamed-of ACL Fest set
Thom Yorke and Radiohead perform on the Samsung Stage during the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on September 30, 2016. (Tamir Kalifa for American-Statesman) By Ramon Ramirez,...
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ACL Eats food court vendors, customers faced serious issues with cashless...
The ACL Eats food court at the 2015 festival. Frustrated vendors and festival goers faced technological difficulties at the ACL Eats food court at Zilker Park yesterday, as the electronic wristbands...
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ACL Fest 2016 review: Top 5 ways Andra Day called us to rise up
Andra Day emerged to taped strains of The Flamingos’ classic “I Only Have Eyes For You,” and thus the tone was set for a performance that was nothing less than captivating. Taking a page from her best...
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ACL 2016 review: Melanie Martinez channels inner toddler, highlights...
The stage was set for the world’s largest, wildest toddler: two giant birthday cakes and a dead-eyed teddy bear flanked rainbow-colored toy blocks spelling out CRY BABY. Two men in jumpers and fuzzy...
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ACL Fest 2016: Domo Genesis shows us his spirit fingers
Rocking a faded, grey T-shirt and a black “Don’t Tread On Me” cap, Domo Genesis offered effortless charm and wit-heavy rap as Sunday’s Miller Lite stage programming plugged into speakers. Domo Genesis...
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Members of Survive are doing more than ‘Stranger Things’
By Chad Swiatecki, special to the American-Statesman Bathed in deep red light while the pulsing throbs generated by the synthesizers in front of him cascaded on a transfixed audience on a recent...
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ACL Fest 2016 in review: Some of Austin360’s favorite performances
Willie Nelson performs to an adoring crowd at The Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 9, 2016. (Tamir Kalifa for American-Statesman) Six days, hundreds of sets and thousands of colorful of...
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This week’s music picks: Forecast calls for Celtic Thunder, followed by six...
Monday: Celtic Thunder at ACL Live. The players change with some regularity, but the mission of this Irish collective always remains the same — presenting the traditional music and culture of its home...
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Did Usher and the Roots turn it up at F1? Yeah!
Usher and The Roots perform during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Erika Rich for American-Statesman By Kayleigh Hughes,...
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