Austin City Limits: recycling this year's festival headliners so you don't have to The lineup for the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival has been announced and it is teeming with top-notch talent. The Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam and Dave Matthews Band round out the top slots of Outside Lands Lollapalooza this year's edition of the ACL, adding Kings of Leon, Theivery Corporation and Ben Harper to the big name mix. While I commend ACL for sticking to younger acts, at least by Coachella's standards
H.O.V.A.Do ya'll want more of the jigga man? Well if y'all want more of the Jigga man, then I need ya'll to help me, bring him back to stage. Say Hova, c'mon say it! HO-VA! HO-VA! Are y'all out there?Yes, J-A-Y is comign back to Phoenix, playing the cozy confines of Dodge Theatre in August. What else is cooking in last week's concert announcements? Read on for full listings, including a radio show with all of 2007's year's biggest hip-hop newcomers and local "indie" teens Sound The City.
Stateside Presents has really been on a hot streak, poster-wise, of late. Their Deer Tick flier has caught my eye a few times, as has this one for last Monday's Men show at Rhythm Room. This flier for We Shot The Moon was good enough to make me look up who the band's MySpace. Turns out they used to be called The Honor Roll and are from San Diego. Cool. I don't love them like I do this flier, but they may be worth checking out.SWAY YOUR HEAD - We Shot The M...
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We already told you a lot about Deer Tick in this week's paper, and we'll tell you a little more tomorrow, after tonight's show at Modified Arts but in the meantime we just wanted to give you a little reminder: DEER TICK IS TONIGHT.In case you're too lazy to click the above link:The group cranks out a rough-hewn hodgepodge of high lonesome twang, indie-rock tension, and crunchy, overdriven grunge dynamics, casting Ritchie Valens and Townes Van Zandt as the principal songwriters in Built to Spill
Despite sweltering heat and scarce air conditioning, about 160 folks crammed into Phoenix's Modified Arts last night to watch the much-hyped Deer Tick as they rolled into town in their converted school bus to support their new record, Born on Flag Day. The boys, lead by singer/songwriter John McCauley, plowed through over an hours worth of tunes, mostly shirtless and with bluesy, bar-band gusto.Say what you want about Phoenix crowds, but they're made of sturdy stuff. The sweltering h
