Austin City Limits Festival

[Andy]

My little sister bought me a ticket for my birthday back in May.  I am going through the list of bands and I know which big name bands I want to go see, but are any of these smaller bands worth checking out?  Don't get me wrong, I'll be checking out bands I don't know, but I'd like to make some educated guesses when there are 5 bands playing at a time.

http://www.aclfestival.com/lineup.aspx

[TL]

I've hear some stuff by Heartless Bastards that I thought was pretty good...

[chrisfoll577]

i am a big fan of midlake, a band that gets endless comparisons to radiohead, grandaddy and fleetwood mac, i'm not sure if that's a good thing in the world of fot.

the broken west is another band that i like. they're a fun country tinged power pop group that quad-p would be proud of.

[Andy]

both my sister and I are in to Midlake, so we'll definitely be checking them out.

She told me that the only bands she cared about seeing were Pete Yorn and Damien Rice and I told her that she would be going to those concerts by herself.

[Tdibble]

Not exactly "hot rock", but the Ocote Soul Sounds remind me of the Budos Band but with more bongos (yikes).

http://www.avclub.com/content/music/the_budos_band


So help me I like it! ...check it out.

[Vambo]

I know I'm late to party on this one, but I just joined the board this week.

I hope you got a chance to see Ike Reilly.  I think he's making the best music in North America and has been for the last seven years.