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I'm guessing it's just temporary during festival setup to limit soil compaction around the root systems, but if they leave it that way the Chair Tribe will probably attempt to tear them down.

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On 8/13/2025 at 12:27 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Counterpoint (and believe me, Mumford & Sons is anathema to me):  there is a point towards the end of The New Basement Tapes where Marcus Mumford is losing his shit because he hasn't written his required song putting lost Dylan lyrics to original music.  He stays up all night and ends up coming up with the best song of everyone there.  I was pretty impressed.

 

I love that "Kansas City" song -- it's fantastic.

 

On 8/19/2025 at 10:33 AM, 4th&Five said:

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Yoke Lore is a fun show.

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4 hours ago, Mittens said:

This year, I've seen something I've never seen before as they have set up for ACL.  Almost every tree, and certainly every tree on the perimeter of the park, has been fenced off.  Thought that maybe that was just to keep the workers from damaging them during construction, but they were still in place Tuesday night.  If these are still up for the festival, that's a shitload of acreage gone, and especially shaded areas where they used to have vendors.  Very curious to see if they leave these up:

 

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That would be equal parts shitty and stupid.

Fences will get torn down.  

3 hours ago, C-Man said:

I love that "Kansas City" song -- it's fantastic.

 

Yoke Lore is a fun show.

Saw him open for Goth Babe in 2023.  Pretty high energy.  He seems to like coming back to Austin.

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Had to buy tickets for Sunday so the wife could see the Killers.  I don't think I have heard of another performer on the schedule.
After listening to a couple songs from most of the artists (I have to listen some more), these are the ones on my radar:
Lamont Landers
Tyler Ballgame or Disciples of Christ (I like the OG rap vibe)
Anderson East or Bebe Stockwell
The Dare
Rainbow Kitten Surprise or Wet Leg
Wild Rivers or Gigi Perez
Passion Pit
MK Gee
The Killers
Will set up camp between AmEx and Lady Bird and wander around for the performers on other stages.
 

Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Wet Leg are playing at same time? That sucks. I love RKS and have see them 3-4 times. Fantastic. We are seeing Wet Leg for first time in a few weeks in Dallas. Looking forward to it. Think that will be a great show. Gun to my head — I’m probably going to RKS but I don’t think there’s a wrong answer.
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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

We are seeing Wet Leg for first time in a few weeks in Dallas.

Still find it fascinating that Rhian went from Isle of Wight milk maid to ass kicking machine...

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:


Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Wet Leg are playing at same time? That sucks. I love RKS and have see them 3-4 times. Fantastic. We are seeing Wet Leg for first time in a few weeks in Dallas. Looking forward to it. Think that will be a great show. Gun to my head — I’m probably going to RKS but I don’t think there’s a wrong answer.

Yeah.  The sets overlap except for a 15 minute window.  I'll probably watch RKS for 30 minutes or so and then head back to AmEx and watch the end of Wet Leg's set.

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8 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Yeah.  The sets overlap except for a 15 minute window.  I'll probably watch RKS for 30 minutes or so and then head back to AmEx and watch the end of Wet Leg's set.

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Remember - if you're not sweating it out at Zilker Park, there are two channels on Hulu showing ACL.

Just got home from being out. Anybody know if I missed Dr Dog on the channel? They’re currently showing headliners Luke Combs and Hozier but are supposedly running until midnight. (Hozier is just terrible.)
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23 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Hozier is laughably shitty as a headliner for this festival.

He was there a couple years ago, but he played a couple hours before the headliner.  I enjoyed Luke Combs' performance.

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He was there a couple years ago, but he played a couple hours before the headliner.  I enjoyed Luke Combs' performance.

I’m no fan of Combs per se but WAY better than Hozier, who sucks shit through a straw.
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Man that crush between rock island and the ‘tent formerly known as beer tent’ was Lizzo-levels for that EotS/Hozier handoff.  Recall years ago when there used to be a stage there, it was often a choke point…but we got caught up in that mess tonight, and it was borderline dangerous.  

Moral of the story is when you’re making a big move across the park to close out the evening, don’t let your friend Chris navigate.  Fuckin Chris. 

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8 minutes ago, Homercles said:

Man that crush between rock island and the ‘tent formerly known as beer tent’ was Lizzo-levels for that EotS/Hozier handoff.  Recall years ago when there used to be a stage there, it was often a choke point. 

I think The Lumineers blowing up between their booking/placement and the festival was the end of that stage. 

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Hozier is laughably shitty as a headliner for this festival.

He has 3-4 good songs.  Other than those the dropoff tonight was precipitous.  

Empire of the Sun always puts on a great show.  It was a similar set to what they played earlier this year at the Moody Amphitheater.

Liked MJ Lenderman.

Panda Bear... would not see again.  Repetitive and low energy save for a couple of songs.

Sorry... Role Model... not for me.  Apparently for the 80% female audience, though.

Confidence Man is great if you like dance in music.

Definitely recommend The Animeros for local psychedelic chicha/cumbia

...and yeah, Hozier, I was ready to go.

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So how much Emergen-C and coconut water y'all enjoying today?  Ooooffff

Today's radar:

Hotline TNT - Always up to check out some shoegaze/noise pop

Inoha - Saw them at SXSW earlier in the year - good indie rock

Ocean Alley - possible but they will most likely lose out to...

Joey Valence & Brae - aka early Beasties and the Beatbox stage is a good stage with a chance of shade

Modest Mouse

La Lom - maybe but mostly overlaps with Modest Mouse although some time in the Tito's tent shade would be nice

5:30 - 7:30 block is a hmmmm block of Magdalena Bay, Backseat Lovers, LP Giobbi.  Which one??

Sammy Virji apparently had a great DJ set at Coachella

The Strokes, duh.  Easy choice for me and I think Sabrina will be a mess.  Very happy that I pretty much don't have a reason to go to the Amex stage today.

 

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Stream times the rest of weekend that I’m interested in:

Today
Modest Mouse, 5:20
The Strokes, 10:10
The Backseat Lovers, 6:15
Japanese Breakfast, 10:40

Tomorrow
Rainbow Kitten Surprise, 4:15
Wet Leg, 5:10
Phantogram, 10:10

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9 hours ago, Tonesky said:

I think The Lumineers blowing up between their booking/placement and the festival was the end of that stage. 

Yeah that sounds about right.  They can’t control an artist’s popularity between booking and showtime, see Lizzo / Chappel Roan / Lumineers / etc…but EotS really surprised me as they’ve been around for well over a decade.  

Based off Reddit chatter already, wondering if Passion Pit is going to be a massive spill out of the tent.  Not likely to cause an actual crush, but it can jack up traffic there with food/bathroom access.

Have loved that guy since the Manners day, so blows my mind that these youngins may be lining up for him…possibly without a tour band?

Who knows, I’m a grumpy bastard with all the corporate / bungalow / profit squeezing shit they’ve been doing.  

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We may try to get to Passion Pit early.  We'll see. 

 

As for Empire two of their biggest hits have 1.3 and 1.1 Billion streams.  Their third biggest song is at 850 Million.  Sabrina's biggest sits at 400M although she has more monthly streamers.

Also, Miller Lite at sunset is consistently one the best stages at ACL

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