The greatest, longest-running live music show in American history, Austin City Limits, also has one of the greatest music festivals out there, Austin City Limits Festival, which comes to Zilker Park for two long weekends, Friday-Sunday, October 6th-8th & 13th-15th:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6th/13th
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Honda Stage |
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The Lumineers, 8:10 PM Folk trio from Colorado (QRO photos at a festival), The Lumineers (QRO live review) are known for their songs riddled with cello, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and charming vocals. Their songs are jauntily and nonabrasive tunes with a sing-along vibe (QRO live review). They return to touring (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) last year (QRO ’22 live review) in support of 2019’s III (QRO review), and now (QRO ’22 live review) return to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival). |
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Maggie Rogers, 6:10 PM – 7:10 PM Maryland’s Maggie Rogers (QRO photos at a festival) broke out when her single “Alaska” was played to Pharrell Williams at an NYU master class. She’s since become a big name in her own right (QRO photos) with 2019’s full-length debut Heard It In a Past Life and last year’s Surrender. She’s been playing bigger & bigger stages (QRO photos at a festival the monthd prior), and now comes to Austin City Limits for a second time (QRO photos at a ’23 festival). |
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Portugal. The Man, 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM (Weekend One) Raye, 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM (Weekend Two) Austin City Limits draws from very farther up north with Alaska/Portland’s Portugal. The Man (QRO photos at a festival). The rambling grunge outfit garnered new fans with 2007 sophomore release Church Mouth (QRO review), and its unhinged alt-rock (QRO live review), though slipped somewhat since then, even while finally playing Europe (QRO photos at a European festival) and becoming a festival favorite (QRO photos at a festival). Their major label debut In the Mountain In the Cloud (QRO review) was more psych-lite, but they still bring it live (QRO live review), and even went Down Under (QRO photos at a festival) after 2013’s release of follow-up Evil Friends (QRO review), hitting both the festival circuit (QRO photos at a 2013 festival) and live gigs (QRO 2013 live review). They come to their fifth ACL (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’18), just after the release of Chris Black Changed My Life (QRO review), their follow-up to 2017’s hit Woodstock (QRO review), which had vaunted them in popularity (QRO photos at a 2018 festival) thanks to big, Grammy-winning hit, “Feel It Still”. |
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Thee Sacred Souls, 2:25 PM – 3:10 PM Check out the sweet Daptone soul of Thee Sacred Souls (QRO ’22 photos). |
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Asleep At the Wheel, 12:55 PM – 1:40 PM (Weekend One) Jimmie Vaughan & Tilt-a-Whirl Band, 12:55 PM – 1:40 PM (Weekend Two) West Virginia-born, Austin-living Asleep At the Wheel (QRO photos at an Austin festival) having been bringing western swing since 1970, racking up not only nine Grammy Awards, but have also appeared at every single Austin City Limits Festival! Get some down-home Texas blues from Jimmie Vaughan, older brother of late Austin legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. |
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Miller Lite Stage |
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The Mars Volta, 7:10 PM – 8:10 PM (Weekend One) Portugal. The Man, 7:10 PM – 8:10 PM (Weekend Two) One of this century/millennium’s most influential and important prog-rock bands, The Mars Volta formed after the break-up of At the Drive-In (QRO photos at a festival), and released important concept albums like 2009’s Octahedron (QRO review) and 2012’s Noctourniquet (QRO review). Now, The Mars Volta (QRO ’22 photos) bring their rock mix of experimental, hard, Latin & more back to Austin City Limits. Austin City Limits draws from very farther up north with Alaska/Portland’s Portugal. The Man (QRO photos at a festival). The rambling grunge outfit garnered new fans with 2007 sophomore release Church Mouth (QRO review), and its unhinged alt-rock (QRO live review), though slipped somewhat since then, even while finally playing Europe (QRO photos at a European festival) and becoming a festival favorite (QRO photos at a festival). Their major label debut In the Mountain In the Cloud (QRO review) was more psych-lite, but they still bring it live (QRO live review), and even went Down Under (QRO photos at a festival) after 2013’s release of follow-up Evil Friends (QRO review), hitting both the festival circuit (QRO photos at a 2013 festival) and live gigs (QRO 2013 live review). They come to their fifth ACL (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’18), just after the release of Chris Black Changed My Life (QRO review), their follow-up to 2017’s hit Woodstock (QRO review), which had vaunted them in popularity (QRO photos at a 2018 festival) thanks to big, Grammy-winning hit, “Feel It Still”. |
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The Teskey Brothers, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM Aussie blues comes to Austin City Limits in the form of The Teskey Brothers (QRO photos outdoors). |
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Breland, 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM Daniel Gerard Breland (QRO ’23 photos) brings his self-described “cross-country” music to Austin City Limits, because, “Country is for everyone!” |
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Also: The National Parks, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM (Weekend One) We Don’t Ride Llamas, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM (Weekend Two) |
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BMI Stage |
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Bass Drum of Death, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend One) The Moss, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend Two) Brother Thunder, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend One) Oliver Hazard, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend Two) Delacey, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM (Weekend One) Emlyn, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM (Weekend One) |
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IHG Stage |
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The Revivalists, 7:10 PM – 8:10 PM New Orleans seven-piece Americana rock band The Revivalists (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) have been reviving N’Orleans rock in such hit singles as platinum “Wish I Knew You” and “All My Friends”. Look for their friends to shimmy back over to Austin to catch their return to ACL (QRO photos at a ’23 festival) behind this year’s Pour It Out Into the Night (QRO review) and their electric live show (QRO ’23 live review outdoors). |
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Brittney Spencer, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend One) d4vd, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend Two) At Austin City Limits, be “Here With Me” with the alt-hip-hop of d4vd (QRO ’23 photos). |
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Abraham Alexander, 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM (Weekend One) Ethel Cain, 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM (Weekend One) Ethel Cain (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) brings Southern Gothic trauma via ambient rock. Also: The Altons, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM |
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Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage |
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Silent Disco, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM If for some reason you don’t want to listen & watch live music with other people at Austin City Limits, there’s always the Silent Disco (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’19), which ends every night at Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage. |
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FKJ, 6:10 PM – 7:10 PM Vincent Fenton, a.k.a. French Kiwi Juice, a.k.a. FKJ (QRO photos), is one of the pioneers of the New French House genre. |
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Also: Blond:ish, 4:10 PM – 6:10 PM Bailen, 2:25 PM – 3:10 PM Julia Wolf, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend One) The Huston-Tillotson University Jazz Collective, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Austin Kiddie Limits presented by Lifeway Kefir |
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Q Brothers, 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM School of Rock, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM (Weekend One) Resonate, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM (Weekend Two) Sonia de los Santos, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend One) School of Rock, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend Two) |
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T-Mobile Stage |
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Above & Beyond, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Reaching above & beyond da club beats is Above & Beyond (QRO photos). |
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Little Simz, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend One) GloRilla, 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM (Weekend Two) The British-Nigerian rapper Little Simz (QRO photos) comes to Austin City Limits to say No Thank You. Just last year, Memphis’ GloRilla burst onto the scene with the Grammy-nominated “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” and hit with Cardi B, “Tomorrow 2”. Anyway, Life’s Great… |
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Also: Half.Alive, 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM (Weekend One) – Photo gallery from Weekend One Abraham Alexander, 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM (Weekend Two) Jamie Wyatt, 1:40 PM – 2:25 PM (Weekend Two) |
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American Express Stage |
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Kendrick Lamar, 8:40 PM Austin City Limits is headlined by the return of hip-hop hit Kendrick Lamar (QRO photos at a festival), who got notice with his 2010 mixtape, Overly Dedicated, and lived up to the hype (QRO photos at a festival) in 2012 with debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city – he’s got no “Fuckin’ Problems” (QRO video). He won a Grammy with 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly – and followed that up that year with the even more acclaimed Damn, that not only won him another Grammy, was on like every best-of end-of-the-year list (QRO’s Top Albums of 2017), but also got that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first non-jazz or classical work to earn the accolade. After a hiatus, last year saw him top the charts again with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, and now plays his third ACL (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’16). |
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Major Lazer, 6:10 PM – 7:00 PM The collaboration between DJ/producers Diplo (QRO photos at a festival) and Switch (QRO photos) made a serious breakthrough in 2009 as Major Lazer (QRO photos at a festival), with Guns Don’t Kill People. Lazers Do. They’ve since released more, like this year’s Music Is the Weapon (even produced Reincarnated, Snoop Dogg’s reggae album as ‘Snoop Lion’) – and know how to do it at festivals (QRO photos at a festival). |
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Lil Yachty, 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM Lil Yachty has risen from being a model in a Kanye West fashion line debut (at Madison Square Garden…) to his debut full-length, Teenage Emotions, with his self-described “bubblegum trap” style (QRO photos at a festival). He comes to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) behind this year’s Let’s Start Here. |
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Nessa Barrett, 2:25 PM – 3:10 PM Embrace the Puerto Rico-by-way-of-New Jersey alt-pop of Nessa Barrett (QRO ’23 photos). |
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Devon Gilfillan, 12:55 PM – 1:40 PM (Weekend One) Font, 12:55 PM – 1:40 PM (Weekend Two) Blues performer Devon Gilfillan returns to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) behind this year’s third full-length, Love You Anyway (QRO photos at a ’21 festival). |
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7th/14th
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Honda Stage |
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Shania Twain, 8:15 PM (Weekend One) The 1975, 8:15 PM (Weekend Two) One of the best-selling music artists of all time, Shania Twain (QRO ’23 live review) now graces Austin City Limits Music Festival. The “Queen of Country Pop” had more hits than you could count in the nineties and early aughts, before basically retiring due to illness. But nothing could keep Shania down, returning with everything from an autobiography to a Vegas residency. One of the greatest women to ever take up the microphone, she comes to ACL behind this year’s Queen of Me. Manchester’s The 1975 (QRO photos at a festival) turned heads with their Sex EP in 2012, even though it wasn’t very good (QRO review), they have kept that up (QRO photos at a festival) as the second coming of INXS with last year’s Being Funny In a Foreign Language. They come to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) after being in the news for other reasons (getting sued for frontman Matty Healy kissing a guy which closed down their Malaysian festival, not to mention him breaking up with Taylor Swift…). |
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Thirty Seconds to Mars, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM It would have been easy for pretty boy actor Jared Leto to go the pretty boy actor route (literally played “Angelface” in 1999’s Fight Club, but don’t talk about Fight Club…), but he has done different things, like his Oscar-winning portrayal of a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, to forming 30 Seconds to Mars (QRO live review) with guitarist Tomo Milićević and drummer/brother Shannon Leto. Of course, he only moved into the emo-heartthrob arena, hardly a huge jump, but of course has found huge success and huge crowds of fans (QRO photos). They play Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) for somehow the first time, just after It’s the End of the World but It’s a Beautiful Day. It’s Morbin’ Time! (QRO photos at a festival) |
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Rina Sawayama, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Anglo-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama (QRO photos) has crossed the globe to critical & commercial acclaim (QRO ’23 photos) – was even in John Wick Chapter 4! |
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Jessie Ware, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Jessie Ware (QRO photos at a festival) has been called, “The missing link between Adele, SBTRKT, and Sade,” so “Free Yourself”, because That! Feels Good! (QRO ’22 photos). Also: Mac Saturn, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend One) Sincere Engineer, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Bob Moses, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM A duo, not a man, Jimmy Vallance & Tom Howe (QRO ’22 photos) form electronic act Bob Moses as they return to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a ’22 festival). |
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Poolside, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM As the sun sets, enjoy the “daytime disco” of Poolside (QRO photos at an Austin festival). |
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Ben Kweller, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Singer/songwriter Ben Kweller (QRO photos) rose from major label false starts in the nineties to success on his own terms in this century/millennium. The Austin native plays his hometown festival for a fifth time – hopefully without any nosebleeds! |
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Yaya Bey, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend One) Eloise, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend Two) Brooklyn’s Yaya Bey brings his R&B to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a ’23 festival’), behind last year’s Remember Your North Star. |
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Also: Miya Folick, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend Two) |
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BMI Stage |
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SHAED, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Weekend One) New West, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Weekend Two) Husbands, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend One) Snõõper, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend Two) Serayah, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend One) Rattlesnake Milk, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend Two) Patrick Martin, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend One) Pony Bradshaw, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Barton Springs Stage |
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Tove Lo, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Out of Stockholm, Ebba Tove Lesa Nilsson – a.k.a. Tove Lo (QRO photos at a ’23 festival) – has written for numerous other artists like Icona Pop, Ellie Goulding, and Hilary Duff, but 2013 hit single “Habits” has made her a leading lady all of her own (QRO live review). She comes back to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) behind last year’s Dirt Femme and her latest big tour (QRO ’23 live review). |
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Coi Leray, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM Austin City Limits Festival welcomes rapper & Trendsetter Coi Leray. |
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Also: Amaarae, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Eddie Zuko, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Gus Clark, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend One) Nemegata, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage |
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Silent Disco, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM If for some reason you don’t want to listen & watch live music with other people at Austin City Limits, there’s always the Silent Disco (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’19), which ends every night at Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage. |
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Chromeo, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Weekend One) Tegan & Sara, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Weekend Two) There are combos and then there are combos: Montreal’s Chromeo (QRO live review) are the electro-funk duo of Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) and P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) has been best friends since childhood (QRO live review), billing themselves as, “The only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since the beginning of time” (but what is their stance on Québécois independence?…). And their electronica works outdoors (QRO photos outdoors), day or night (QRO live review), even at a festival (QRO photos at a festival). They come back to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’14) for a third time (QRO photos at a festival) with their great show (QRO live review), off of 2019’s Head Over Heels (QRO review) and 2020’s absolutely awesome Quarantine Casanova (QRO review), because they wanna be your “Clorox Wipe” (QRO review). Identical twin sisters Tegan and Sara (QRO interview) Quinn emerged out of Calgary at a young age over two decades ago (QRO spotlight on), and are coming down to ACL (QRO photos at a festival) behind their tenth record, Crybaby (QRO review). 2016’s Love You To Death (QRO review) and 2013’s Heartthrob (QRO review) launched the indie duo (QRO live review) into electro-pop stardom (helped by contributing to Lego Movie’s awesome, Oscar-nominated song, “Everything Is Awesome!!!”), after a hiatus following the end of their touring behind 2009’s Sainthood (QRO review). They then tapped their high school era writings for 2019’s Hey, I’m Just Like You (QRO review), and now combine it all & more (QRO ’22 live review) – including the recent TV series High School, based on their own memoir! The duo manages to combine both their mature style and today’s indie-rock (QRO live review) – along with some great between song banter (QRO live review). They’ve been everywhere in the world (QRO photos at a festival on the other side of the world) – from French-speaking Montreal (QRO photos) to Major League Baseball’s ‘Fan Cave’ (QRO photos), from Amnesty International’s ‘Bring Human Rights Home’ event (QRO photos) with Pussy Riot to Middle America (QRO photos) to Village Voice Pride Awards (QRO recap). They return to Austin City Limits (QRO photoshoot at Austin City Limits ’12) on their latest big tour (QRO ’23 live review). |
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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Weekend One) Sudan Archives, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Weekend Two) Get on the Mississippi Blues of Christon “Kingfish” Ingram (QRO ’23 photos outdoors). Brittney Denise Parks brings the violin out of the stuffy classical setting of old and into the modern, multicultural era as Sudan Archives (QRO ’23 photos). |
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Also: Calder Allen, 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM Angel White, 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM Shooks, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM (Weekend One) Valley James, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM (Weekend Two) Die Spitz, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend One) Blakchyl, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Austin Kiddie Limits presented by Lifeway Kefir |
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Smith & Yarn, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Weekend One) Ralph’s World, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Weekend Two) Tim Kubart, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM (Weekend One) Fyütch, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM (Weekend Two) Sonia de los Santos, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend One) Resonate, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend Two) The Barton Hills Choir, 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
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T-Mobile Stage |
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Noah Kahan, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Check out the folk-infused pop of Noah Kahan (QRO photos at a ’23 festival), coming to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) behind last year’s Sick Season (QRO photos from this summer). |
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Tanya Tucker, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Of course, Austin City Limits will have some country music royalty, such as the one-and-only Tanya Tucker. She’s had hits going back to 1972 (at the age of 13) with “Delta Dawn”. She’s been a consistent star for decades with other singles such as 1988’s “Strong Enough To Bend” and 1992’s “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane”, and in 2019 won the Grammy for Best Country Album with While I’m Livin’ and for Best Country Song with “Bring My Flowers Now”. She comes back to ACL for her second time in three years, after being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. |
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Gus Dapperton, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM New York State’s Gus Dapperton has gotten notice as much for his dapper fashion sense as his music, such as this year’s Henge. |
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Abby Sage, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend One) Devon Gilfillan, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (Weekend Two) Blues performer Devon Gilfillan returns to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) behind this year’s third full-length, Love You Anyway (QRO photos at a ’21 festival). Also: Arya, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend One) Goodnight Texas, 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (Weekend Two) |
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American Express Stage |
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Foo Fighters, 8:00 PM For some people, Dave Grohl will always be, first and foremost, the drummer of Nirvana, but he’s forged a massively successful career fronting his own Foo Fighters (QRO photos at a festival) for over twenty-five years now. Along with former Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Nate Mendel, Pat Smear (of iconic punk act The Germs), and Chris Shiflett (QRO photos at a festival), they’re up to record number eleven with this year’s But Here We Are (QRO review), 2021’s Medicine at Midnight (QRO review), 2017’s ambitious Concrete and Gold (QRO review), 2014’s Sonic Highways (QRO review), 2011’s Wasting Light (QRO review), and more. There has even been pseudo-Nirvana reunions, like Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and Nevermind producer Butch Vig on Wasting, plus Grohl’s documentary & album about their old recording studio, Sound City (QRO album review). Grohl even broke his leg on stage, finished the performance, and toured with his leg in a cast while sitting on a specially made throne. Last year, Foo drummer Taylor Hawkins tragically passed away, putting the band into forced hiatus. But they’ve returned this here with the cathartic But Here We Are, and now come back to headline ACL. |
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Alanis Morissette, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM “Isn’t it ironic?” With that line and 1995’s Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette became the musician that “You Oughta Know”, practically the poster girl for the wave of nineties indie-rock songstresses. No, nothing’s matched that since, but she’s kept busy in music & more, including appearing as God in Kevin Smith’s Dogma, starring in the Philip K. Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth, and voicing an imaginary version of herself on The Great North. She comes to ACL after not only celebrating the (delayed) 25th anniversary of Pill on tour, but also turning it into a Tony-nominated musical. |
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Mt. Joy, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Enjoy the indie-rock of Mt. Joy (QRO photos), who have emerged from the troubles of the COVID pandemic with 2020’s sophomore studio album, Rearrange Us, and now comes to Austin City Limits (QRO ’23 photos). |
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Declan McKenna, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM From winning Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition to his U.K. hit sophomore record Zeros, Declan McKenna (QRO photos in the U.K.) comes to Austin City Limits (QRO ’23 photos). |
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Also: Bigxthaplug, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend One) CVC, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend Two) |
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th/15th
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Honda Stage |
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ODESZA, 8:15 PM Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight managed to put out their debut as electronic duo ODESZA (QRO photos) while still in their senior year way back in ’12 with Summer’s Gone, and come back to play Austin City Limits again (QRO photos at a festival) off of last year’s The Last Goodbye, and big live show (QRO photos at a 2018 festival) – including lots of drums (QRO photos at a festival). |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (QRO photos at a festival) emerged out of the same wave of New York alt-acts at the beginning of this century/millennium as The Strokes and others, but YYYs have managed to just keep going (QRO photos in NYC). They broke through with 2004’s Fever To Tell and hit single “Maps”, and while they’ve been sparing with their releases (2007’s Show Your Bones, 2010’s It’s Blitz! – QRO review – and 2013’s Mosquito – QRO review), they’ve stayed hot, mixing in dance-punk and electronica, and come back to ACL (QRO photos at a ’22 festival) behind last year’s highly anticipated Cool It Down (QRO review). They’re also one of the most fashionable (QRO photos) acts around in singer/frontwoman Karen O (QRO photos at a ’23 festival). |
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Tash Sultana, 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM (Weekend One) M83, 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM (Weekend Two) Melbourne’s Tash Sultana (QRO photos at a festival) began her career busking on the streets (QRO photos outdoors), but has since vaunted into the top of Australia radio & more, thanks to only handful of singles and her Notion EP. They return to Austin City Limits Festival (QRO ’22 photos). How is it that France does such great atmospherics? M83 (QRO live review) actually exceeded countrymen Air with 2008’s Saturdays = Youth (QRO review) and 2011’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (QRO review), and come back to Austin City Limits Festival (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’16) for a four time (QRO photos), now behind this year’s Fantasy (QRO review), which has led the band to bigger shows (QRO live review) and bigger stages (QRO ’23 photos) at bigger festivals (QRO photos at a festival) & more (QRO photos at a festival). |
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Dope Lemon, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM One half of Australian sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone (QRO photos), Angus has since made his own pseudonym as Dope Lemon (QRO ’22 photos). |
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Also: Michigander, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM |
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Miller Lite Stage |
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Cigarettes After Sex, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM El Paso ambient pop Cigarettes After Sex (QRO ’23 photos) come to over to Austin after 2019’s sophomore full-length, Cry. |
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Ivan Cornejo, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM Regional Mexican music has recently been booming north of the border, so take this chance to check out the seventeen-year-old phenom Ivan Cornejo. |
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Suki Waterhouse, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Model/actress/fashion entrepreneur Suki Waterhouse (QRO ’23 photos) also makes music, and now comes to Austin City Limits. Photo gallery from Weekend One Also: Mimi Webb, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Katy Kirby, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM |
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BMI Stage |
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Tanner Usrey, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM (Weekend One) Corey Kent, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM (Weekend Two) Sunrose, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Weekend One) Caramelo Haze, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Weekend Two) Grace Sorensen, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM (Weekend One) Corook, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM (Weekend Two) Major., 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend One) Myron Elkins, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Barton Springs Stage |
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Death Grips, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM Alt-hip-hop has grown into experimental hip-hop, the next big thing in outfits like Sacramento’s Death Grips (QRO photos at a festival) and their wild stage show. It used to be that the big question is whether they’ll even show, as they were notorious for canceling shows (sometimes without notice), but since breaking up and reuniting (QRO photos at a festival), they’ve actually been playing shows, and come to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival last month). |
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The Breeders, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM Back in the early nineties alt-boom, Kim Deal left Boston’s acclaimed Pixies to form her own band with her sister Kelley, The Breeders, and they had one of the biggest hits of the era with the classic Last Splash (QRO live review performing Last Splash). However, after that the band sputtered to a delayed disappointment record Title TK a decade later. But this is the twenty-first century, and everything is coming back. First Deal and Pixies frontman Black Francis buried the hatchet and reunited the old band, while Kim & Kelley reteamed up (QRO live review) to make Mountain Battles (QRO review) – which unfortunately was no Last Splash. So, Kim left the Pixies (again), recruited the entire old Splash crew and played the record on tour (QRO photos of them performing Last Splash at a festival). 2018 (QRO photos in 2018) saw the old band release the new All Nerve (QRO review) – and it was yet another disappointment. But hey, Last Splash still sounds great live (QRO photos of them performing it at another festival), and you’ll hear it (QRO live review on 30th anniversary tour of Last Splash) back at ACL (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’18). |
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Morgan Wade, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Just after the release of her third record, check out the country Psychopath Morgan Wade at Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival). Also: Randall King, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Ellis Bullard, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend One) Kathryn Legendre, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage |
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Silent Disco, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM If for some reason you don’t want to listen & watch live music with other people at Austin City Limits, there’s always the Silent Disco (QRO photos at Austin City Limits ’19), which ends every night at Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage. |
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Also: Sidepiece, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM Yves Tumor, 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend One) Celisse, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM (Weekend Two) Ali Sethi, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM (Weekend One) Quin NFN, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM (Weekend Two) Jane Leo, 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM (Weekend One) Sisi, 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM (Weekend Two) Wesley Bray & The Disciples of Joy, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend One) The Moriah Sisters, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend Two) |
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Austin Kiddie Limits presented by Lifeway Kefir |
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Tim Kubart, 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM (Weekend One) Fyütch, 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM (Weekend Two) Smith & Yarn, 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM (Weekend One) School of Rock, 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM (Weekend Two) School of Rock, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend One) Ralph’s World, 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM (Weekend Two) |
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T-Mobile Stage |
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Labrinth, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM British multi-instrumentalist Timothy McKenzie, a.k.a. Labrinth, first got notice working with Tinie Tempah on hit U.K. single “Pass Out”, then on his own with such pieces as “Beneath You Beautiful”. He comes to Austin City Limits after working with the likes of Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Eminem, and more – not to mention soundtrack Euphoria. |
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GloRilla, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM (Weekend One) Little Simz, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM (Weekend Two) Just last year, Memphis’ GloRilla burst onto the scene with the Grammy-nominated “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” and hit with Cardi B, “Tomorrow 2”. Anyway, Life’s Great… The British-Nigerian rapper Little Simz (QRO photos) comes to Austin City Limits to say No Thank You. |
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The Walkmen, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Weekend One) Del Water Gap, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Weekend Two) The Brooklyn rock music scene of the aughts culminated in The Walkmen (QRO photos at a festival in Brooklyn). The band (QRO live review) grew from their more soused early days (QRO photos – which included a front-to-back cover of John Lennon & Harry Nilsson’s drunken weekend Pussy Cats – QRO review) to a sadder, but more accomplished act (QRO photos at a festival) by 2008’s You & Me (QRO review). Their live show (QRO live review) similarly evolved (QRO photos at a festival), if losing some of that early fun, but certainly gotten classier (QRO live review). But, even at festivals (QRO photos at a festival) or outdoors (QRO photos outdoors), they ranged nicely (QRO photos at a festival) from barstool rockers like oldies “The Rat” (QRO video) and “Thinking of a Dream I Had” (QRO video) plus the newer “The Blue Route” (QRO video) to sadder pint glass-raisers like older “Another One Goes By” (QRO video) and “Louisiana” (QRO video), plus the newer “On the Water” (QRO video) from 2010’s classy Lisbon (QRO review), made on site in Portugal (QRO live review in Europe). But a year after 2012’s Heaven (QRO review) and single “We Can’t Be Beat” (QRO review), the group went on hiatus, with various band members releasing solo work. Until this year, as the iconic Walkmen (QRO photos) are returning (QRO photos at a festival), with a series of shows in NYC (QRO live review from NYC ’23 reunion show) and further (QRO reunion photos in London), and then return to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival). Brooklyn singer/songwriter Samuel Holden Jaffe comes to Austin City Limits as Del Water Gap (QRO photos) behind last year’s self-titled debut. |
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Also: Becky Hill, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM (Weekend One) Quarters of Change, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM (Weekend Two) Matt Maltese, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend One) Leon III, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Weekend Two) |
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American Express Stage |
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Mumford & Sons, 8:30 PM London’s King’s College & St. Paul’s School are serving as something of the English alt-folk Wesleyan, seeing related acts hit it big. First there was Noah & The Whale, with graduates of both, then Noah’s female vocalist Laura Marling went out on her own. But the biggest hit from there has to be fellow Marling collaborator Mumford & Sons (QRO live review). Debut Sign No More saw them break through to the mainstream (QRO photos outdoors) with songs like “Little Lion Man”, and 2012’s follow-up Babel (QRO review) hit number one on the charts (QRO photos) on both sides of the Atlantic (QRO photos at a European festival). Oh, they’ve also done such feats as perform on the Grammys with Bob Dylan – and win album of the year in 2013! They also got a Grammy for their tour documentary Big Easy Express (QRO screening review), where they, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show toured the southwest by train – a railroad version of their ‘Gentlemen of the Road Stopover’ tours (QRO review). And now Mumford & Sons (QRO live review) come back to Austin City Limits to headline (QRO photos at ’23 festival), after last year’s Delta (QRO review) and 2015’s Wilder Mind (QRO review), not to mention frontman Marcus Mumford’s recent solo work (QRO live review). |
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Hozier, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM Ireland’s Andrew Hozier-Byrne (QRO live review in England) comes back to Austin City Limits (QRO photos at a festival) off of Wasteland, Baby!, 2019’s follow-up to 2014’s massive breakthrough single “Take Me To the Church” – which had seen him being impersonated by Kate McKinnon on Saturday Night Live! |
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Niall Horan, 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM Out of the massively successful boy band One Direction (which was created on The X Factor?!?), each singer has forged their own successful solo careers, such as Ireland’s Niall Horan (QRO photos at ’23 festival). He’s had three hit solo records, most recently this year’s The Show, and now brings that Show to Austin. |
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Also: Kevin Kaarl, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Madison Cunningham, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM |
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