With Longhorn football setting upon us this weekend, greater Austin is officially at DEFCON 2 where it concerns Austin City Limits Festival. Sun gear is being picked out, schedules are being double checked and we’re all quietly hoping we don’t have to make another emergency poncho run and deal ...

Photo from MySpaceTHE BAND OF HEATHENS What’s the Deal: If you’re a music-loving Austinite and haven’t heard of these guys, then maybe you’re just not listening hard enough. It’s no surprise that this local supergroup of songwriters made it to the Austin City Limits lineup this year ...

It's been a busy ACL day on AME! Yesterday, Portland-based folk rockers Blind Pilot announced that they will be playing an ACL Day 3 (Sunday, October 10th) set. They will also play a handful of headlining dates before and after the festival. These will be the first dates for the band in 2010. B ...

While known primarily these days for it's beat-making (See: Flying Lotus, Baths) and lo-fi (See: No Age, Best Coast) scenes, Los Angeles is also home to many experimental and psychedelic groups. Perhaps the most exciting of these bands is Warpaint. The band has garnered significant praise from cr ...

Image from Matador Maybe you’ve never really listened to Sonic Youth. That’s perfectly understandable - they’ve yet to have a bona-fide hit (college radio notwithstanding) and their brush with major label success in the ‘90s yielded fine albums but not the celebrity that David Geffen wa ...

Image courtesy of T Bird and The Breaks In 2006, Ghostland Observatory was meticulously plying its trade on the club scene when one afternoon performance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival changed the duo’s career trajectory drastically. Fast forward to 2010. This time around, effervesce ...

The digital sampler includes tracks from 10 artists from this year’s lineup, including Midlake, David Bazan, Those Darlins, Phish and sweet-voiced Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit. Click here to get the redemption code.

The songs of San Francisco indie rockers Girls alternate between breezy beach romps like the track “Laura,” featured above and groggy, drug-addled, psychedelic dirges. We caught up with Christopher Owens, former cult member and frontman of the group back in January, to discuss his unlikely u ...

Western VinylIn this day and age, a band that can stop you in your tracks and inspire intense, close listening is rarer than rare, but Austin’s Balmorhea repeatedly stuns. And in a city rife with noisy dive bars, noisier bands, and heated arguments about decibel levels, Balmorhea are content to ...

Whoever said “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” ought to spend a couple hours combing through the scheduling tool on the ACL Fest Web site, to sort out what bands have got fans excited heading into the second weekend of October. Spend too much time on it and you come out c ...

Today, August 25th, the Official ACL Aftershow Schedule was released. Here are the lineups: October 6th: The Strokes at Stubb's Outdoors October 7th: Paul Oakenfold w/Die Antwoord at Austin Music Hall.  Spoon w/Elvis at the Mohawk. Pat Green at Stubb's Outdoors Neon Indian and Pre ...

While not too widely known outside her native Canada, Basia Bulat has gained a loyal and devoted fan base since her 2007 debut Oh, My Darling. Her unique voice and folksy tunes managed to catch the ears of the people in charge of the prestigious Polaris Prize, for which that album was nominated. ...