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2008 ACL Music Festival Lineup — We Waited All Year for This?

The real Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup has been announced for 2008 (unlike this totally kick-ass but fake poster that I fell for a few weeks ago).

The Foo Fighters are this year’s biggest headliner? Feh.

Other “big” names and not so big names:

  • Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
  • Beck
  • John Fogerty
  • The Raconteurs
  • Gnarls Barkley
  • Erykah Badu
  • Robert Earl Keen
  • Patty Griffin
  • Tegan & Sara (one of my wife’s favorite bands)
  • G. Love & Special Sauce (one of my favorite bands — the last time I saw them here in Austin was with Jack Johnson.)
  • Galactic (because you ‘gotta have a hippie jam band, man)
  • Del the Funky Homosapien (great band name, but I’ve never heard of them either)
  • What Made Milwaukee Famous
  • Shooter Jennings (Waylon’s kid)
  • Back Door Slam (I’m guessing they are not playing the kiddie tent)
  • Band of Heathens (opened for Barack Obama the first time he came to Austin. Liked them more than Obama)

Color me unimpressed. No way I’m paying the $170 three-day pass ticket price for that line up. No way am I fighting the crowds, the dust, and the heat for that lineup.

Probably my favorite artist that is playing this year is Robert Earl Keene. And I can see him almost anytime here in Austin.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | Trackback |

5 Responses to “2008 ACL Music Festival Lineup — We Waited All Year for This?”

let me preface; i wouldn’t drop $170 for that lineup either. while i don’t agree that galactic is a “jam” band, they are pretty badass live. in fact, last time i saw them they were on tour with a host of special guest mcs that made their show more hip hop than anything else.

robbie,
i only ask because i tend to respect your opinions and views and typically find them just and insightful but i hate the term. what, to you, constitutes a jam band?

Left by adam on April 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Galactic is definitely a jam band.

Del the Funky Homosapien is a hip hop star. You would hate him, Robbie.

[Editor --- You're right, I'm not a particular fan of hip hop. Though my wife probably knows who he (they?) are --- she likes a lot of hip hop. There's some I like occasionally --- is there a difference between hip hop and rap? Because I'm not sure I know the difference if there is one.]

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

I saw Galactic live at the ACL a few years ago. There were hippies everywhere swaying to elongated, jamming instrumental sets.

I’ve seen String Cheese Incident and Phish live before too — and I couldn’t tell one of these three bands from the other if you held a gun to my head.

That’s close enough to “jam band” for my not-too-specific definition.

Left by Robbie Cooper on April 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

when it comes to this, you and i will have to agree to disagree. it sounds like you’re saying that if the audience wore tie-dye then jazz acts would be “jam bands”. you might want to rethink your approach to listening to tunes if you can’t differentiate between galactic, phish, and cheese. if it makes you feel any better, galactic is the only one still playing shows.
john- since robbie lamed some babble about the audience determining which bands are jam bands and you don’t seem to mind using the label, what makes a “jam band”.

Left by adam on April 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Foo Fighters would be good, but the others don’t interest me, not in a festival. I mean, where is Lamb of God, Drowning Pool, Down, Sevendust, Static-X, Disturbed, Coal Chamber, Mudvayne, Rob Zombie, or Slip Knot? A total lack of metal in this venue.
Oh…just checked the date, and it wouldn’t matter, that’s football season.

Left by no2liberals on April 16th, 2008 at 12:10 am

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