Last weekend I officially started warming up for ACL by attending a different massive music festival, this one in San Francisco and all bluegrass: Hardly Strictly.
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ACL 2010 lineup
The lineup for the Austin City Limits Music Festival has been announced. It looks good, but not 2009-good. Read more to see the whole lineup, or go see it in the ACL website for yourself.
- The Eagles
- Muse
- Phish
- The Strokes
- M.I.A.
- Flaming Lips
- LCD Soundsystem
- Spoon
- Vampire Weekend
- Norah Jones
Cerati – Miami
Live right now. And no, I’m not there. Looks like I’ll be kissing this tour alltogether. Sad.
Gilberto Gil
I’m not fully recovered from SXSW concert overload yet but singer, composer, guitar player and former Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil was in town so missing it wasn’t really a smart option. It was a beautiful all stings acoustic concert. No video, but you can at least hear this low quality recording. Enjoy!
Update March 29, 2010: The concert was at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium.
SXSW 2010 Music Day 4
Ok, last SXSW 2010 post.
Saturday was the final day of South By Southwest. Destination: Beauty Bar – or rather, a seemingly improvised venue called “Beauty Bar/Palm door” three blocks south of the real Beauty Bar. The place had three nasty problems:
- A serious drainage issue that made the whole place stink, even though the bathrooms were surprisingly neat.
- The bar had no way to charge credit cards, which is bad for today’s cash-less American society (and for my friends with cash who were nice enough to buy me beer).
- A horribly annoying wooden column right in front of the stage, as you can see in the photos I took.
In spite of this, it turned out to be an excellent night with one of the best shows I’ve seen in a SXSW.
Photos and videos of the shows if you read more…
SXSW 2010 Music Day 2 (More)
Hard to catch up with all the stuff I saw. Here are some more photos and videos from last Thursday at South By Southwest (Warning: Extreme close-ups). First, some photos of Ozomatli’s awesome dance circle finale, where they get off stage with the crowd. Then, if you read more, you can see to another video of Bajofondo and one of Ozomatli that didn’t make it into the last post.
SXSW 2010 Music Day 2
Thursday. Destination: Auditorium Shores.
Read more for photos, videos, reviews, and a coupon for 6 McNuggets (expires 3/18/2010).
SXSW 2010 Music Day 1
SXSW is upon us. Last night the Music Festival got started (the Interactive and Film parts start earlier). On the first night I went dowtown with Eli to see the shows at Antone’s. The line was really long and we barely made it in. We only got to see the last two shows of the night. I apologize for the crappier-than-usual photos: I brought my pocket digital camera but not its memory card. I guess the camera wasn’t the only thing in need for better memory. So it’s all crappy iPhone photos/video.
Read more for photos, videos, some words about the bands I saw, and to be automatically entered into a random drawing for $1,000.000USD sponsored by Microsoft and AOL once you have forward this link to all your friends!…
Café Tacvba 20:20
As part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, Mexican rock band Café Tacvba is touring 20 cities. Austin is one of them. I got last minute tickets to see them perform at La Zona Rosa. As usual, great concert. And even though I have seen them play live many times (Feria Monterrey, La Huasteca, ACL TV Show, ACL Festival, Stubbs twice, La Zona Rosa just to name a few) it’s always a great show, plus this time I had to bring a newbie.
YouTube clip may follow… I’m a little scared.
U2 360°
On Wednesday, a few friends and I went to see U2 at the Reliant Stadium in Houston. In order to be allowed to buy tickets early to what I thought would be a quick sellout, I became a member of the U2 Fan Club ($!). The concert didn’t sell out, but the General Admission tickets did, so the plan paid off.
More after the break…