Anyone Going to ACL?

i-1c4cf41a8cdd56f481fb4986f31d09f2-acl.jpgThe 2007 Austin City Limits Festival starts later this week. There's a pretty amazing lineup of bands to hear for $80/day, including some of my favorites, Blonde Redhead, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and the Arcade Fire. My schedule of annoying indie bands is posted here.

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Can you give me any more reasons to love your blog? Ah, the joys of sharing musical taste. Alas, I'm not going to Austin this week but if I could I would definitely see Spoon. I'm on a huge Spoon kick right now.

Have fun!