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Black Joe Lewis delivers sizzling Austin show before fall tour
Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears perform at the Radio Day Stage at the Austin Convention Center at South by Southwest on Friday March 17, 2017. JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Black Joe Lewis could...
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Zac Brown Band brings a Southern country-rock tour de force to ‘Austin City...
The biggest surprise about Thursday’s taping of “Austin City Limits” with the Zac Brown Band at ACL Live is that the multiplatinum-selling Atlanta group had never played the long-running TV show...
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Blondie tops the bill, but Garbage makes the night at ACL Live
Debbie Harry of Blondie performs at ACL Live on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Scott Moore for American-Statesman The double-bill of 1970s punk pioneer Blondie with 1990s alternative-rock juggernaut Garbage on...
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Ed Sheeran returns to roots of playing to intimate audience at ‘Austin City...
Ed Sheeran taped his second “Austin City Limits” show on Sunday. Photo by Scott Newton, “Austin City Limits” “Hello, How are you doing?” Ed Sheeran asked the crowd at his “Austin City Limits” taping...
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Guns N’ Roses delivers big bang in San Antonio
By David Glessner, Special to the Statesman For a band that shot to stardom peddling its appetite for destruction, Guns N’ Roses arrived Friday at San Antonio’s Alamodome in seemingly good health and...
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Janet Jackson breaks into tears during moving Austin performance
For the most part, Janet Jackson’s Sunday night performance at the Erwin Center was a testament to the “Rhythm Nation” leader’s ability, even at 51, to dominate a dance floor. A seven-piece ensemble...
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Harvey can’t mess with Willie and all his friends at Texas-sized relief concert
Willie Nelson at “Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas” fundraiser at the Erwin Center on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Charles Reagan Hackleman/C3 Presents At the start and end, Friday’s “Harvey Can’t Mess With...
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Tedeschi Trucks Band’s soulful tour de force rages at sold-out ACL Live
The Tedeschi Trucks band at ACL Live on Saturday, September 23, 2017. Peter Blackstock/American-Statesman From the sold-out, revved-up crowd, to a cameo appearance by Jimmie Vaughan, to a finale that...
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Indie rockers Arcade Fire sound at home in the arena for Erwin Center show
Arcade Fire at the Erwin Center on September 27, 2017. Scott Moore for American-Statesman Because they’re often positioned as an alternative to pop superstars, indie bands generally flourish in the...
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Wilco leaves a standing impression on the crowd at Bass Concert Hall
Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy with guitarist Nels Cline, left, and drummer Glenn Kotche at Bass Concert Hall on Sunday, October 1, 2017. Scott Moore for American-Statesman “We’re just going have to live...
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Charlie Sexton and the Barton Hills Choir jam at Austin Kiddie Limits
“Let’s hear it for the kids!” Austin guitarist Charlie Sexton may have been the special guest of honor with the elementary-school Barton Hills Choir early Friday afternoon at the Austin City Limits...
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Armed with a rainbow parachute, Andrew McMahon pays tribute to Las Vegas
There are not many artists who will crowdsurf in an inflatable rubber duckie. Andrew McMahon will, and he’ll make it seem unusual that other artists don’t. The emo idol turned pop-rock imagineer does...
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ACL Fest: Even a loud crowd can’t sour sweet James Vincent McMorrow
Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow’s afternoon set at ACL Fest 2017 was marred by a common culprit that can hold back softer and folk acts playing fest sets: crowd noise. Even through the...
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ACL Fest: Foster the People swap gun violence song ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ for ‘Love’
Fans expecting Foster the People to close their ACL Fest 2017 set Friday evening with mega-hit “Pumped Up Kicks,” an anti-gun violence anthem about a troubled kid who fantasizes about shooting his...
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Ryan Adams’ hourlong ACL Fest set provides a sampling of his deep catalog
Hourlong sets at music festivals aren’t really the best musical environment for a performer like Ryan Adams, who’s written so many songs over the last two-plus decades that boiling it down to just a...
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Jay-Z calls for love, plays the hits, ends before 10 p.m.
UPDATE: Austin City Limits Music Festival organizers say there was a mix up on the schedule for Jay-Z’s weekend one set time. Next week’s schedule has been corrected and Jay-Z will perform from 8:30...
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When Solange sings, you listen at ACL Fest
There was so much to see, and there was so much to hear. I saw a young woman at the front of the barrier to the Barton Springs stage Friday, wearing a dress shirt tied around her waist, with the words...
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ACL Fest 2017: Royal Blood packs power, but lacks creative punch
There were issues almost from the start of English blues rock duo Royal Blood’s set Friday at the Barton Springs stage. A pair of equipment malfunctions – one after the opening song, another roughly...
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ACL Fest 2017: Martin Garrix delivers maximum everything DJ set
Say this for Dutch DJ Martin Garrix: the young electronic music star knows that an important key to capturing a crowd in an outdoor setting is playing up the intensity and force, often to ridiculous...
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ACL Fest 2017: (Sandy) Alex G bewilders and shines
Recurring thought from a Friday afternoon spent watching (Sandy) Alex G singer Alex Giannascoli deliver this vocals through a teeth-clenched snarl: “This guy is going to kill his voice if he’s not...
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