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The Head and the Heart sing for heavy hearts at ACL taping
The Head and the Heart tape an episode of “Austin City Limits” at ACL Live on Monday, May 22, 2017. Scott Newton/Courtesy of KLRU-TV and Austin City Limits Monday evening coming down at ACL Live found...
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Bob Weir sends out campfire smoke signals in a long and winding ACL Live show
Bob Weir performs the first of two nights at ACL Live on Saturday, April 15, 2017. Suzanne Cordeiro for American-Statesman If you’re headed to ACL Live tonight for the second show of Bob Weir’s...
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Miranda Lambert’s third ‘ACL’ taping charms the crowd
Miranda Lambert and her band tape “Austin City Limits” at ACL Live on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Scott Newton/Courtesy of KLRU-TV Many of the acts tapped so far for Season 43 of “Austin City Limits”...
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Old Settler’s Music Fest rings in 30 years on a cool Saturday in Driftwood
Hot pickin’ and cool breezes dominated at the Salt Lick Pavilion on Saturday as the 30th Old Settler’s Music Festival hit the home stretch in Driftwood. A Sunday-afternoon finale followed across the...
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Tom Petty goes 40 years deep, with Gary Clark as guest, at Erwin Center
Tom Petty (with Heartbeakers Steve Ferrone, drums, and Ron Blair) behind him at the Erwin Center on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Scott Moore for American-Statesman It’s a testament to the depth of Tom Petty’s...
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Jmblya 2017: 13 key things you need to know about the breakout rap festival
Steve Aoki performs to a large crowd at the 2017 Jmblya Festival on Saturday, May 6th 2017 at Circuit of The Americas. Erika Rich for American-Statesman Saturday’s Jmblya festival proved a...
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The XX proves they’re a huge ACL Fest draw in sold out ACL Live show
Riding high on the success of their excellent third album, “I See You,” British dream pop band, the XX is one of the top billed artists at the 2017 Austin City Limits Festival. The band appears seventh...
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Brian Wilson and his bandmates do ‘Pet Sounds’ proud at ACL Live
Brian Wilson and band perform at ACL Live on Saturday, May 13, 2017. Suzanne Cordeiro for American-Statesman Seated at the piano at center stage, Brian Wilson sometimes disappears into the grandeur of...
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Jimmy LaFave’s friends rise to meet him at Paramount’s ‘Songwriter Rendezvous’
Everyone who got a ticket for Jimmy LaFave’s Songwriter Rendezvous at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday knew this night was going to be full of both sorrow and beauty. And still, the show overflowed...
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New Kids on the Block serve sex and nostalgia on a pyrotechnic platter in Austin
The year is young yet, but I’ve already seen things. Things you couldn’t imagine you’d see in 2017. I’ve seen Jordan Knight grab his right stuff while rockets and cucumbers flew across the screen...
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The Head and the Heart sing for heavy hearts at ACL taping
The Head and the Heart tape an episode of “Austin City Limits” at ACL Live on Monday, May 22, 2017. Scott Newton/Courtesy of KLRU-TV and Austin City Limits Monday evening coming down at ACL Live found...
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U2 pushes a message of unity at dazzling Texas tour debut in Houston
If you go to see concerts very often, you’ve probably gotten used to the “anniversary tour” concept: Just in the past month alone, both Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Damned played shows in...
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Austin360 On The Record: Garner Sloan, Sour Bridges, Paul Nipper, Ghost Wolves
OUT THIS WEEK Garner Sloan, “Liquid Sails and Bobcat Tales.” Yes, Sloan is a singer-songwriter originally from West Texas, but no, he doesn’t sound like what that might imply. Country and folk styles...
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Muse delivers lots of moments big and small, and one great live show
One gets the sense that Muse – well a decade into being one of the biggest live draws in the rock music realm – has its rap down pat at this point. Multiple rounds of headlining the biggest festivals...
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Norah Jones brings a zen-like calm to ‘Austin City Limits’ taping
Norah Jones and her band taping “Austin City Limits” on Sunday, June 11, 2017. Scott Newton/Austin City Limits Sometimes the best does get saved for last. After a 15-song set at ACL Live that mostly...
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Chicago and Doobie Brothers deliver a blast from the past at Austin360...
Chicago performs at the Austin360 Amphitheater on Saturday, June 17, 2017. Scott Moore for American-Statesman Take a hit-machine rock band celebrating 50 years since its inception, add another band...
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Watch: Poi Dog Pondering, burnin’ down the house at 3Ten
If you were fortunate enough to stumble upon Poi Dog Pondering in the fall of 1987, when the ragtag assemblage of Hawaiian travelers busked on the University of Texas’ west mall for a few weeks amid a...
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What does the heart of Antone’s sound like? It’s right here in the music
July tends to be a slow month in most of Austin’s nightclubs, but at Antone’s it’s the coolest time of the year, regardless of how hot it is outside. When Clifford Antone opened his first place in...
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Review: Jason Isbell is at the top of his game and still climbing
By John T. Davis/Special to the American-Statesman Sometimes the good things are worth waiting for. Jason Isbell has spent the past few years collecting new fans, critics’ plaudits, Grammy awards and...
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Eight reasons Logic gives us hope for the future of hip-hop
Suzanne Cordeiro/For American-Statesman In the four years since XXL shouted him out as part of the 2013 Freshman class, 27-year-old rapper Logic, hailing from the D.C. suburb Gaithersburg, MD., has...
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