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
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.
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