SHOW DATE: Friday, October 8
SHOW TIME: 5:00 PM @ the Honda stage
Oh Beach House, how you have been neglected. Beach House has been on my radar for a while now, but they just haven’t gotten their do. I love the background singers in the song Zebra. They offer a great counter to the strong lead vocals. It’s the kind of music I want to listen to while lazily hanging out at the beach.
Enjoy!
SHOW DATE: Saturday, October 9
SHOW TIME: 7:30 PM @ the Lady Bird Lake stage
This is one of those band that keeps popping up for me. I listen to Grooveshark … they’re there. Chill out with some Pandora … they’re there. And now it seems they will be following me all the way to Austin, with their ACL appearance in September. Well, the good news is that they are really good and you should check them out.
So picking a song for this post was super difficult, but I’m going with Daylight. I love how the song starts with keyboards, then builds to vocals and finally adding the drums. I am a sucker for echoes used in songs, it makes them fun to sings along with. Daylight is from their Grand album.
I would also recommend listening to Yea Yeah and No More Long Years, if you like what you’ve heard here.
SHOW DATE: Saturday, October 9
SHOW TIME: 5:30 PM @ the Lady Bird Lake stage
There are certain songs out there that just make you want to dance, and Sweet Disposition my friends is one of those songs. Whenever I hear it I can’t help but move, whether it be in the car or at home. It has a kind of 80s vibe, which of course I’m into. I am excited about seeing them at ACL, I think it will be a fun show.
The Temper Trap, from Melbourne, Australia, first attracted U.S. attention back in 2009 at South by Southwest here in Austin.
SHOW DATE: Saturday, October 9
SHOW TIME: 4:30 PM @ the AMD stage
I blame this new found love of Broken Bells on Eklektikos, a radio show on our local NPR station. A few months ago I first heart it – Mongrel Heart. It’s always sounds to me like a “sandwich song,” where the beginning and the end are similar and the middle is the real gem. To me hands down my favorite part is the short, spaghetti-western inspired trumpet solo around minute mark 2:20.
Broken Bells was formed in 2009 by Brian Burton of Danger Mouse and James Mercer of The Shins. Mongrel Heart is from their debut album, self-titled Broken Bells.
So Austin City Limits is now just two months away, time to start getting a game plan together right? First things first, we know where excited about seeing The Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon and Gogol Bordello. But there is so much music to discover every year at ACL you have to do some good old fashion research. So I guess you can consider us the ACL cliff notes, we’ll weed through it all and give you the need to know info.
I’ve had my metaphorical eye on Shearwater for a while. When their newest album, The Golden Archipelago, came out they received a lot of airtime on our local NPR station, KUT. When I heard this song for the first time, it stopped my in my tracks. I love the haunting voice of the lead vocals and the trumpet solo. They are playing a benefit show here on July 16 at the Austin City Limits studios. It should be a great show!
Interesting musical side note – Shearwater was formed by Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff of Okkervil River back in 1999.
