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
Heather HochJohn Vanderslice played some songs and gave some hugs at Modified.By Heather Hoch
About two years ago, John Vanderslice made a promise to a Phoenix audience that he would return to Modified Arts again. Though you couldn't blame anyone who wanted to avoid Phoenix this time of you, Vanderslice delivered, while supporting his newest release Romanian Names, making his Sunday show at Modified one of his tour's final stops. Vanderslice said again on stage how much he loves the v
Bishop Allen are a prim pop confectionary who
churned out their third proper full-length last March titled "Grrr..." The
candy-coated tracks are worth the impending toothaches, placing Bishop Allen,
named for the street where the founding members lived, in cahoots with fellow
saccharine rockers Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors and, Phoenix's own,
Miniature Tigers. Stateside will present Bishop Allen at Modified Arts on
Wednesday, Nov. 11, along with support from Darwin Deez and Futurekind.