The first full-fledged ACL Fest since the start of the pandemic is a wrap. ‘Texas Monthly’ recalls Megan Thee Stallion’s twerk-team auditions and other highlights.
Despite the specter of COVID, Texans and out-of-staters flocked to Zilker Park for a sweaty weekend of debauchery.
The teenage Disney actress and singer-songwriter sensation performed her first full-length set in front of a live audience, at an ‘Austin City Limits’ TV taping.
Fringe, cowboy hats, boots—and more fringe—dominate the style choices of this year’s ACL Fest attendees.
These Gen Z guys just want everyone to chill, and enjoy their homage to the funky music from their parents’ record collections.
Two-step with Strait, twerk with Megan, and don’t miss these six other acts during the first two weekends in October.
Nelson’s rendition of ‘On the Road Again’ gets special treatment for this year’s all-virtual festival.
The owners of the Grand Ole Opry snapped up ACL Live At The Moody Theater earlier this week.
The artist found her musical roots in Texas. It took leaving for her to become a star.
Mezghebe fled East Africa, landed at Texas’s Casa Marianella, and performed with Maggie Rogers in Austin.
Music still sounds different coming from more intimate venues, where daytime festival acts can take center stage.
Fringe, rhinestones, and boots were in full display at the Austin music festival.
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the Grammy-winning musician considers her struggles and her legacy as she enters the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.
Texan stars dominated the annual Zilker Park festival.
The October music festival is still landing smackdab in the middle of a Texas summer. Here’s how to dress.
Clark and his band bring the heat on the PBS series.
As radio and television stop breaking new bands, the curator behind Austin City Limits Music Festival’s crowd-drawing lineups has become a major player in the popscape.
Talking with the Dallas native who scored big with 1994’s “Stay (I Missed You)” and won a Grammy earlier this year for an album of children’s music.
He proudly waved the South American country's flag toward the end of his headlining set Friday night.
At her Austin City Limits performance, Musgraves paid homage to female country icons.
The festival has delivered on its commitment to genre diversity, but women and artists of color are still underrepresented.
The policy is in effect now.
The reclusive Texas filmmaker’s long-simmering saga of love and betrayal in the Austin music world premieres on March 17.
The inaugural festival in McDade—and the successor to Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest—could suggest where music festivals are going.
The festival titan wants access to government-owned lands for its events.
King Kunta brings his A-game to a taping of the flagship PBS music show.
We chatted with C3 partner Charles Attal about how an iconic Austin music festival ended up in New Zealand.
How Shakey Graves made the leap from cult figure to major festival draw.
Standard-fare ACL acts like the Foo Fighters and the Strokes are joined by Drake, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, and more.
The new, but enduring, Texas music tradition experiences some growing pains in Year Thirteen as it attempts to reflect the interests of music in 2014.
The Belle and Sebastian frontman joined festival stalwarts the Barton Hills Elementary School Choir for four of his own songs
Terry Lickona, an "Austin City Limits" producer for all but three of the show's forty seasons, talks about growing the concert music show, and outlasting MTV.
Every wristband comes with a $30 credit for a service that can't legally be taken to the festival.
A lot has changed since the KLRU show first started.
If you love ice cream and/or outdoor music festivals, and you're not camera shy, they want to hear from you.
What will it take for Stevie Ray Vaughan to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Sixteen photographs of some of the cooler moments of Austin history, as taken by Scott Newton, the longtime official photographer of “Austin City Limits.”
Somehow I lived in Texas more than twenty years without seeing Willie Nelson. This had to end.
For the first time in its history, the Austin City Limits Music Festival stretched over two weeks, a format that worked out well for some—and not so well for others.
Only in Austin would a local kid's choir share the bill with Lionel Richie, Muse, The Cure, and Wilco.
Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor whose international reputation is mostly the result of a series of drug allegations, is in Austin right now.
According to the Rick Perry camp, sometime this month our governor will announce whether he plans to run for Texas's top office yet again.
Ten photos from the 11th Annual Austin City Limits Festival.
Why Willie Nelson's Heroes is shaping up to be his biggest record in some time.
On Friday, I began looking into how different food vendors and restaurants were gearing up for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. So far, I’ve spoken with Second Bar + Kitchen, Torchy’s Tacos, and The Salt Lick; today, I finish off my inquiry with Pâté Letelier and Tiff’s Treats. Read
Yesterday, I reached out to a few food vendors and restaurants to find out how they’ve been preparing for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which attracts thousands of avid music fans from all over the world. To start things off,
The Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) kicks off today, and it isn’t just the music scene that is attracting hoards of attendees to the festival grounds. The food lineup is just as alluring as the assortment of bands scheduled to
Terry Lickona, the television show's executive producer, talks about some of the acts that will step on the Austin City Limits stage for the first time, including Radiohead and Kat Edmonson.
The New York Times took note of the dozens of hotel, retail, office, and residential projects underway in downtown Austin.
