UPDATE — Damn. This isn’t the real lineup. The poster is a fake (thanks Pat for the tip). Oh well, slow news day.
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Austin Sound Check has found a poster for this year’s 2008 Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival. I didn’t go last year, but this year’s lineup has a lot of artists I’d like to go see:
- Radiohead
- Raconteurs
- Beck
- Tom Waits
- Modest Mouse
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Portishead
- Sonic Youth
- Sigur Ros
- the Shins
- Cake
- Ryan Adams
- Belle and Sebastian
- Paul Westerberg
- Ben Folds
- Bright Eyes
- Franz Ferdinand
- Allman Brothers Band
- Kings of Leon
- The Roots
- Charlie and Bruce Robison
- Drive By Truckers
- Fiona Apple
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Al Green
- John Fogerty
- Feist
- Built to Spill
- Iron and Wine
- Rodrigo Y Gabriela
- Buddy Guy
- Polyphonic Spree
- Cat Power
- Tracy Chapman
- Rilo Kiley
- Jakob Dylan
- Bob Shneider
And those are just the headliners…
There’s also:
- Patty Griffin
- Jimmie Vaughn
- Asleep at the Wheel
- Ruthie Foster
- Todd Snider
- Slaid Cleaves
- Brett Dennen
- Jon Dee Graham
- Alejandro Escovedo
…and about 80 more acts
The bolded acts are the ones I’d most likely go see.




Gotcha!! (this poster is a fake)
[Editor --- Damn. Of course I liked this lineup --- which means I'll hate the real lineup.]
That would have been one Helluva lineup!