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02 October 2009
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Sunday, 10/4
ALELA DIANE - Sun, 10/4, 11:45am (Dell) We know from experience that by the time Sunday morning rolls around, you've got a ringing in your ears that even the hair of the dog can't cure, and a wad of crusty peepers in your eyes. Many make the mistake of rolling into the last day of the festival at 2, 3, even 4pm, thereby essentially forefeiting many quality acts from your $185 pass investment. Now is that sound financial management? Of course not! Alela Diane's brand of Nevada City, California folk is both soothing to your ears and pleasant on the eyes. Diane is as young in looks as she is on her birth certificate, but years of wisdom have taught us that it doesn't take forever to gain perspective. She combines an observant and nature-filled lyrical pen with a voice soft with a fluttering firmness It accompanies her dexterous acoustic fingerpicking of a well worn Gibson. She'll be travelling with a very light rhythm section that adds a spring-like punch to her list of all original songs spanning three albums since 2006. With a 70% likelyhood you'll start your day three with clouds and rain, don't wait at home. Awake from your groggy state of mind with music that moves like a river awake with fall color. ~jason repko
01 October 2009
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Saturday 10/3
It's hard to believe someone who's almost 70, has been perfoming for nearly 50 years, and who recently had a biopsy still has *it.* But you won't need us to tell you founding member of The Band and 2008 Grammy winner Levon Helm can still smack the skins. And play the guitar. And sing. And make magic happen.
More or less formulated through his Midnight Ramble sessions at his studios in Woodstock, NY, Helm's band is composed of a hoarde of great players including daugher and guitarist Amy Helm, fiddler Larry Cambell (B.Dylan, Emmylou Harris), trumpeter/composer Steven Bernstein (Lounge Lizards, Sexmob), harmonica player Little Sammy Davis, acordian/keys Brian Mitchell (B.B. King, Al Green, A. Touissant), and a handful of others.
Not nearly as active recently, health issues have forced Helm to take it easy on his delicate vocal chords and pass on some of the singing to other members of the group. He doesn't play but a few dozen times a year.
By dusk on Saturday you'll have witnessed history...
~jason repko
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Saturday, 10/3
BON IVER - Sat. 10/3, 5pm (Dell)
A purposefully mis-transcribed play on the French term for *good winter,* Bon Iver is the heart frontman Justin Vernon wears prominently on his sleeve.
The 2007 debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, is a collection of rumintative songs that very loosely chronicle his bout with mono, a breakup and a geographical move. But they also speak in awe of nature. It's the sound of a man left alone with his emotional imagery and a guitar. Vernon's vocal phrasing is sweeping and poignant and he uses it like another musical instrument, fully aware of the power it posesses.
There is something seminal already developing with Vernon's music and for the folks at ACL to book Bon Iver and place them in a prominent time slot is brilliant (it's too bad it's not about an hour later nearer sunset). Just a few days ago, they performed at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary at 6 in the morning!
~jason repko
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Saturday 10/3
!!! - Sat. 10/3 2pm (AMD)
Wild. That will be the scene, the vibe and the set that these New York-based, dancearound indie-pop-punk gents infatuated with exclamation points (pronounced Chk-Chk-Chk like the sound of a keyboard), bring to the West side of the park on Saturday. Lead singer Nik Offer tends to get the hipster dance junkies going these days, something !!! used to get a lot of shit for just a year or two ago.
Wild. That will be the scene, the vibe and the set that these New York-based, dancearound indie-pop-punk gents infatuated with exclamation points (pronounced Chk-Chk-Chk like the sound of a keyboard), bring to the West side of the park on Saturday. Lead singer Nik Offer tends to get the hipster dance junkies going these days, something !!! used to get a lot of shit for just a year or two ago.
Everything revolves in circles, and Austin, full of 80's gear-wearing hipsters that were too young to remember the Clash's disco-dance phase or Mick Jones going to the pop-culture darkside with Big Audio Dynamite, will eat this up. We mean it. This will be THE gig the hip crowd will be talking about long after the dust, er...the grass clippings settle. Take the attitude of Dave Chapelle's Rick James funk, slap it with the Clash and roll it out with a serious bass line and a drum beat that won't quit and folks, this side of the park is going to be seriously rocking.
There is a dance-revolution going on in indie rock (or is that Evil Otto from 80's arcade game Berserk?) !!! are punctuating the movement.
30 September 2009
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Friday, Oct 2
The PARLOR MOB - Sat. 10/2, 2:20pm (Austin Ventures)
People, you’ve got to be ready for ACL right out of the gate– and we know you are. With the impossibility of scheduling every band in its ideal time slot, gems like The Parlor Mob risk getting lost in the shuffle.
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These cats can really put on a show as evidenced here. For an audio sample of what you’ll experience, head here and then click on the song “Everything Your Breathing.” Follow it up with “Carnival of Crows.”
Signed to Roadrunner Records – a label who knows their talent – And You Were a Crow, is the band’s debut album and it’s a smoker.
Parlor Mob plays early in the day on the Austin Ventures Stage – and with the newly planted grass, turns the greenish venue into the closest thing ACL has to Chateau de Versailles. You’ll be able to get up real close for this one and get the Parlor Mob get your blood pressure going to start your ALC 2009.
29 September 2009
Austin City Limits Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Raphael Saadiq
By the time Raphael Saadiq - former bassist of 80’s and 90’s swing and R&B outfit Tony! Toni! Tone! and known then as Charlie Ray Wiggins – hits the stage at the ACLFestival, he should be a household name once again. Staying relevant with last year’s Grammy-nominated solo album The Way I See It, Saadiq recently performed everywhere from Bonnaroo to the Stockholm Jazz Festival. Leading the way to the revamped R&B throwback album era are Joss Stone, Corrine Bailey Rae, Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones. It’s about time one of the guys returns to Hitsville with one of their own. Saadiq hits the Grand Salami.
Saadiq’s bass playing roots are prevalent in the heavy stepping vibe and he pairs it with a soulful vocal delivery. Here’s a little nugget from his website www.raphaelsaadiq.com and a recent video performance from Sept. 28, 2009 , on NPR’s Tiny Desk. Along with guitarist and right hand man, Rob Bacon, Saadiq performs “Love That Girl,” “100 Yard Dash,” and “Sure Hope You Meant It.” After your mind is blown by these acoustic numbers, try to imagine it with a nine piece band on stage Friday evening…
Now stop imagining things and go catch a Mowtown hit for real.
22 September 2009
2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival: Happy as a dog!
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