The last big American music festival of the year has it’s lineup, and the Austin City Limits festival will be headlined by…The Eagles? Yep, it appears ACL will be headlined October 8-10 by the chillest band of the 1970s, along with Muse and Phish, with The Strokes, M.I.A. and the Flaming Lips taking the second string headliner bill. The rest of the lineup is filled in with big guns including LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Norah Jones, Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk, The National, and the Mountain Goats and lesser but good guns including The Black Keys, Broken Bells, Yeasayer, Beach House, Matt and Kim, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Girls, Local Natives, Devendra Barnhart, The Morning Benders, and White Rabbits. You can check out the whole lineup here.
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Lollapalooza Lineup Officially Revealed
After teasing us with Wheel of Fortune-esque puzzles, Lollapalooza’s lineup has been officially announced. No real surprises at the top, but the festival will be headlined by The Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Lady Gaga, Green Day, Soundgarden, and Phoenix. It’s still unclear who is the main headliner, that is, the one that closes the festival. Also appearing are MGMT, Spoon, the National, Hot Chip, Erykah Badu, the Black Keys, Devo, the xx, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, Metric, Matt and Kim, Drive-By Truckers, Jamie Lidell, Frightened Rabbit, Fuck Buttons, the Walkmen, HEALTH, Wild Beasts, Wavves, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, Social Distortion, Jimmy Cliff, Deer Tick, Cypress Hill, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Mavis Staples, the Cribs, Raphael Saadiq, Minus the Bear, Rogue Wave, the Big Pink, the Dodos, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Morning Benders, Javelin, 2ManyDJs, Peanut Butter Wolf, BBU, Empire of the Sun, B.o.B., the Antlers, Warpaint, the Soft Pack, and Harlem.
Looks like Lolla has a pretty solid lineup this year. So if you’re in the Midwest and need a giant music festival fix this summer, Lollapalooza is your best bet. The festival is August 6-8 in Grant Park, Chicago.
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Broken Bells to Tour With the Morning Benders
Though we didn’t love the Broken Bells album, the live stuff I’ve heard as been pretty decent. That’s a good thing, because the duo of Danger Mouse and James Mercer will be hitting the road this spring with The Morning Benders, whose new album Big Echo has been in heavy rotation of late. Check out the dates below:
Broken Bells w/ The Morning Benders
05-18 San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay
05-19 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre
05-21 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
05-24 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
05-25 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
05-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
05-29 Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre
05-31 Chicago, IL – Vic Theater
06-01 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
06-02 Toronto, Ontario – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
06-04 Boston, MA – Royale NightClub
06-05 New York, NY – The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
06-06 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
06-07 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
06-10 Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
06-11 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
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