| | | | | Flaming Lips, Band of Horses, Norah Jones, the |
| Festival season officially kicked off with the Coachella | | | | National, Yeasayer, Robert Earl Keen, Rebelution, |
| Valley Music Festival in Indio, Calif. in April and will go | | | | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Devendra |
| out with a bang in Austin, Texas in October. The ninth | | | | Banhart, Cage the Elephant and others. Get your |
| annual Austin City Limits Festival will take place in its | | | | Austin City Limits Festival tickets to attend all three |
| usual Zilker Park location in Texas Oct. 8-10 and will be | | | | days from <a rel="nofollow" |
| headlined by the Eagles, Phish, Muse, the Strokes and | | | | onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(' |
| M.I.A. ACL will be Phish's only stop in the Lone Star | | | | outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" |
| State in 2010 (they wrap up their summer tour in | | | | Austin has been hailed the live music capital of the |
| August) while ACL will be the Strokes' second-only | | | | world and the Texas city sure lives up to its nickname |
| U.S. show of the year (they are slated to perform at | | | | during ACL weekend! The first annual Austin City |
| Lollapalooza). reports that over 130 acts are lined up | | | | Limits festival was held in 2002 and has been |
| for the 2010 edition of ACL, such as first-time | | | | showcasing local Texas acts as well as nationally |
| performers Broken Bells, Miike Snow, Girls and | | | | touring artists and bands since then. The 2009 edition |
| Temper Trap. | | | | of the ACL Festival was headlined by Kings of Leon, |
| Everyone's favorite jam band, Phish, will headline the | | | | Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam and Ben Harper and |
| first day of ACL (Oct. 8) with fellow headliners the | | | | Relentless7. Last year's festival also featured |
| Strokes. Other acts slated to perform on the first day | | | | performances by Thievery Corporation, John Legend, |
| of the festival include Vampire Weekend, Sonic Youth, | | | | Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Them Crooked Vultures, Phoenix, |
| the Black Keys, Broken Bells, Slightly Stoopid, Beach | | | | Ghostland Observatory, Citizen Cope, the Dead |
| House, Girls, Blues Traveler, Miike Snow and many | | | | Weather, Arctic Monkeys and many more. |
| more. The second day of the festival (Sat., Oct. 9) will | | | | Austin City Limits is produced by Austin-based C3 |
| be headlined by Muse and M.I.A. Monsters of Folk, LCD | | | | Presents—the company is also behind Chicago's |
| Soundsystem, Deadmau5, Gogol Bordello, Local | | | | Lollapalooza—and the 2010 edition of ACL will be |
| Natives, Pat Green, Gaslight Anthem, the Temper | | | | sponsored by Budweiser, AMD, American Express, |
| Trap, Matt and Kim, Pete Yorn and others will also | | | | Austin ventures, BMI, H-E-B and Sweet Tea Leaf. The |
| perform. | | | | 2009 edition of ACL raked in $13.5 million and drew an |
| Fans with <a rel="nofollow" | | | | audience of 195,000 people over its three days. |
| onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(' | | | | Billboard placed the festival at No. 4 on its top 10 list of |
| outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" City Limits Festival | | | | the highest-grossing festivals of 2009 and with this |
| tickets</a> will want to stick around for Sunday | | | | year's impressive lineup it is sure to make it in the top |
| (Oct. 10) as well. The final day of ACL feature | | | | five of the 2010 list! |
| performances by headliners the Eagles as well as the | | | | |