This Is How My Positivus Was!
In the week after the Positivus Festival, nearly all my friends and acquaintances in Riga asked me, “How was your Positivus?” It’s sort of like asking someone how their Christmas or their summer vacation...
Category: Austin City Limits Music Festival
Portugal. The Man is Taping An Austin City Limits Television Show Tonight. It’s Also Streaming!
The last time I saw the band Portugal. The Man, they were playing a free in-store show at Waterloo Records. Tonight they are taping an Austin City Limits television show, which is also being streamed.
Noah and the Whale are Visiting Landlocked Austin
If you are going to that big ole music festival down at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, you might be seeing the British band Noah and the Whale. This past summer I chatted with...
“The Black Angels” Austin City Limits taping.
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to go to the Austin City Limits TV taping of The Black Angels. This is the second time this year that I’ve seen the band, as I was lucky enough to see them at Austin Psych Fest.
At the taping I ran into two older friends of mine, who are grown-up enough to have hippie friends from hippie times.
Why I Spend So Much Time Going to Shows, Listening to Music
Thousands of people from all over the world gather in Austin, Texas each March for the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival. They come back for Austin Psych Fest in the late spring,...
The Time Wayne Coyne and I Called Latvia, Woke Up My Friend, and Gave the Latvian Tabloids Some Copy!
When I heard the Flaming Lips were playing a SXSW show at Auditorium Shores, I couldn’t help think about the last time that the Flaming Lips played a large show in Austin.
Back in 2010, I was working on a column about people with disabilities at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I ran across Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips in the festival’s media area. He was waiting for an interview with MTV, I was trying to stay in the shade so I didn’t melt.
Old Enough to Play the Austin City Limits Music Festival…But Not Always Old Enough To Vote
Of all the artists playing the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival, Abby Torres, 16 and Carla Pantoja 16, may be the only performers who managed to squeeze in a marching band competition that October weekend.
Torres and Pantoja are members of the Lanier High School band who also study music via Anthropos Arts, an Austin-based non-profit providing music lessons to dedicated young performers from at risk backgrounds. The project’s supporters include musician Esperanza Spalding, who popped by the Anthropos booth at ACL to pose for pictures after her Friday afternoon show.
Being There with Wilco
Once upon a time (in the early 1990’s) a dude I was smitten with took me to see a band called Uncle Tupelo at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas. My date was always broke...
For those able to find work at festival, music was just bonus
On the Friday afternoon of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, I met Marina, 19, a sophomore political science student at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. The day before, she had taken an...
ACL: I’m Excited About Seeing Twin Shadow Again!
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
