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Foos, Plant/Krauss, Beck To Rock Austin City Limits
Foo Fighters

April 15, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

Ray Waddell, Nashville
Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Beck, Manu Chao, John Fogerty, David Byrne, the Raconteurs and the Mars Volta are among the top acts booked for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, set for the city's Zilker Park from Sept. 26-28.

The seventh ACL Fest, produced by Austin-based promoter/producer C3 Presents, will feature more than 125 acts over three days. Also on the bill are Gnarls Barkley, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, N.E.R.D., Tegan & Sara, Iron & Wine, G. Love & Special Sauce, Neko Case, Band Of Horses, the Swell Season, Silversun Pickups, Gogol Bordello, Gillian Welch, the Black Keys, Against Me!, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Hot Chip, Spiritualized, Drive-By Truckers, Vampire Weekend and Duffy.

The ACL lineup boasts several acts with a Texas connection, among them Erykah Badu, Robert Earl Keen, Patty Griffin, Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Flyleaf, Roky Erickson, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears and White Denim.

Three-day passes are available for $170, including fees and a print-at-home option, at ACLfestival.com until sellout or show time. Sponsors are AT&T, AMD, Dell, Austin Ventures, WaMu, BMI, H-E-B, Heineken, Blackstone Winery and Sweet Leaf Tea.


The ACL festival was the fourth-ranked festival in the world in 2007, based on its gross of $11.3 million and attendance of 225,000 from three sold-out days, according to Billboard Boxscore.
 
Total rock fest to me.

Fogerty, Foo, Roky, Raconteurs, DBT, Mars, Band of Horses, Silversun, the Black Keys, and Against Me!.

Also, Sharon Jones, Okkervil, Iron and Wine, and M Ward.

So happy.
 
I like it. Still don't know if I'll buy a 3-day pass or not though. Lots of people are pissed off that the Foos are the headliner, **** 'em. That means I'll just be closer to the stage.
 
I'm digging it a lot. Interested in Foos, Plant/Krauss, Beck, Fogerty, David Byrne, Roconteurs, Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Band of Horses, Swell Season, Gillian Welch, Jakob Dylan, Alejandro Escovedo, Drive By Truckers, Shooter Jennings...Unlike past years, lots of bands I look forward to see who I haven't seen before.

ACL Lineup
 
I like it. You can't download printpasses until April 18th. You can still choose that option when you order, but you'll have to wait a couple of days to download the file.
 
Austin got hosed. The Foo Fighters have to be weakest band at the top of the card in the history of the event.

I've taken 3 dumps just this week that were more inspired than this lineup.
 
this is an excellent second tier band festival. The headliners do not live up to the other festivals.

I will enjoy the hell of these bands...

Silversun Pickups
CSS
MGMT
Jose Gonzalez
Neko Case
Kate Nash
Hot Chip
Octopus Project
Del
Tegan and Sara
Car Stereo Wars
Beck
Manu Chao
Stars
David Byrne
Jenny Lewis
M Ward
Iron and Wine
Band of ******* Horses
Yeasayer
The Black ******* Keys
Vampire Weekend
Against Me
Okkervil River
Mates of State
NERD
 
Um, are you really willing to put up the Foo Fighter's catalog up against Bob Dylan's? Last year's headliners were far superior. The only knock on last year's top acts was due to the Stripes backing out at the last minute. Hard to blame C3 for that one.

This year's turd-tastic offering smells from the get go.
 
I love Bob Dylan. He's in my top 3 of favorite singers. He was god awful last year and a small part of me died listening to him sing. Today, I would rather listen to the Foo Fighters live over Bob Dylan live.
 
It's not the best, but it's a lot more diverse than the last few years, which were leaning heavily towards indie rock.

I'm most excited about seeing these bands, whom I have never seen before:
Foo Fighters
Beck
Gnarles Barkley
Erykah Badu
Band of Horses
Vampire Weekend
Del the Funky Homosapien
 
Really wish there was a few bigger names but as has been said, the mid tier bands are pretty solid. N.E.R.D should be awesome, and even though Foo isn't great, they can't be much worse than Dylan last year. I know its Dylan but damn that was such a drag for a closing act.
 
I would have to agree that I'm not too pumped about the headliners this year. That will enable me to leave ACL early each night completely guilt-free while I try to catch some dinner and aftershows.

The midldle tier is good/borderline great.
 
There's supposed to be at least 130 bands, and I'm only counting 116 at the ACL website. At least, as far as these eyes can see. I've heard rumors of another headliner that hasn't been announced.
 
Agree with everyone about the mid-small tier bands.
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Whether you like them or not the Foo Fighters put on a helluva show. Saw them a few months ago in Houston and I only knew like 3 of their songs and had a great time.

To each his own.
 
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