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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Long dormant dancehall to reopen
Sengelmann Hall in Schulenburg, about an hour and 20 minutes east of Austin, is reopening after 60 years with a bang. Owner Dana Harper and talent booker Steve Dean kick things off with Junior Brown on June 5 and the Derailers the next night. Jason Boland and James Hand play the following weekend, with Cory Morrow, Czech Melody Masters, White Ghost Shivers, Earl Poole Ball, Cloverleaf Orchestra, Billy Mata and more in the coming weeks.
The Hall will also include a German/ Czech restaurant on the ground floor, with the upstairs dancehall overlooking a beer garden.
Here’s an interesting history of Schulenburg, one of those cool old German towns perfect for Austin daytrippers.
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ACL 2009 full band list
2009 ACL LINEUP
- Pearl Jam
- Dave Matthews Band
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Kings of Leon
- Ben Harper and Relentless7
- Thievery Corporation
- Them Crooked Vultures
- John Legend
- The Dead Weather
- The Levon Helm Band
- Ghostland Observatory
- Mos Def
- Toadies
- Flogging Molly
- Raphael Saadiq
- Dirty Projectors
- Mike Posner
- The B-52s
- Citizen Cope
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Decemberists
- Coheed and Cambria
- Andrew Bird
- Girl Talk
- STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)
- Phoenix
- Bassnectar
- Bon Iver
- !!!
- The Avett Brothers
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Clutch
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Grizzly Bear
- Heartless Bastards
- Passion Pit
- White Lies
- Dan Auerbach
- The Walkmen
- The Scabs
- Reckless Kelly
- Devotchka
- Blitzen Trapper
- The Virgins
- Here We Go Magic
- Eek-A-Mouse
- K’ Naan
- Asleep at the Wheel
- Dr. Dog
- The Raveonettes
- The Knux
- Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
- State Radio
- Los Amigos Invisibles
- The Felice Brothers
- Federico Aubele
- Raul Malo
- Daniel Johnston
- Poi Dog Pondering
- Brett Dennen
- Rodriguez
- Henry Butler
- Preservation Hall
- Sam Roberts Band
- The Greencards
- Sara Watkins
- Walter “Wolfman” Washington
- David Garza
- John Vanderslice
- Zac Brown Band
- Todd Snider
- School of Seven Bells
- The Dodos
- Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
- Alberta Cross
- Deer Tick
- Bell X1
- Alela Diane
- The Wood Brothers
- The Parlor Mob
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Terri Hendrix
- L.A.X.
- Lisa Hannigan
- The Low Anthem
- Sons of Bill
- Suckers
- Sarah Jaffe
- Cotton Jones
- The Henry Clay People
- Papa Mali
- Jypsi
- Vince Mira
- Jonathan Tyler & the Northern
- Lights
- Mimicking Birds
- Jeffrey Steele
- Jonell Mosser
- Leatherbag
- Keith Gattis
- Damien Horne
- Sarah Siskind
- Dexateens
- Nelo
- Danny Brooks
- Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
- The Soul Stirrers
- The Durdens
- Palm School Elementary
- The Gospel Silvertones
- Diaconos
- Quinn Sullivan
- Ralph’s World
- Q Brothers
- Milkshake
- Telephone Company
- Loose Cannons
- Lunch Money
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Some more thoughts on ACL
Let’s break it down a bit….
WE KNEW ABOUT
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Beastie Boys
Kings of Leon
(This leaked a while back, but man alive, are those Dave Matthews fans going to be excited.)
ACL FIRST-TIMERS:
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Beastie Boys
John Legend
the Dead Weather (Jack White’s new band)
the Levon Helm Band
Sonic Youth
(Nice to see Sonic Youth in there, I would put them at an odd-on favorite for an aftershow because they are on the record as really loving playing at Stubb’s. Beastie Boys are always an Austin favorite. Dead Weather is a large question mark - How much do we really want to see Jack White play drums? Everyone has great things to say about the Levon Helm band and frankly, if I could personally BE anyone in The Band, I’d be him. I mean, come on.)
SOME AUSTIN-BASED HIGHLIGHTS
Ghostland Observatory
Asleep at the Wheel (every festival and counting!)
The Scabs
Reckless Kelly
Black Joe Lewis
Papa Mali
Heartless Bastards
Terri Hendrix
Leatherbag
Nelo
(No real surprises here, and yes, I’m leaving off a few names. Were there any surprises for you, reading public?)
R&B AND HIP-HOP
John Legend
Mos Def
The Knux
Michael Franti & Spearhead (well, sort of)
K’Naan
(Not a band crew AL ALL. Backpackers will be loving Mos Def and the Knux seem to be absolutely everywhere this year. That band is grinding VERY HARD.)
JAM BANDS
Dave Matthews Band
Medeski, Martin & Wood
(Yes, DMB counts. I went to the University of Virginia back when he was playing Trax every Tuesday. He counts. Think he’ll play “Ants Marching?” I have this weird weakness for that song.)
ELECTRONIC BAND
Girl Talk
Bassnectar
(Sample-delic!)
ELECTRO-JAM BAND
STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)
(This mediocre joke wrote itself. My apologies to the masses. I still remember seeing STS9 at the first ACL and becoming a total convert. Great, great live act.)
COOL VETS
B-52s
Rodriguez
(The former can cold rock a party. The latter is one of the odder hipster rediscoveries of recent times. Check him out here)
GIMME INDIE ROCK!
Sonic Youth (now on Matador Records)
Blitzen Trapper
Bon Iver
!!! (Chick-chick-chick)
The Raveonettes
Daniel Johnston
(Wouldn’t be surprised to see any of these bands at aftershows. Well, maybe not Daniel.)
SURPRISINGLY HEAVY
Clutch
Coheed and Cambria
(It was a surprise to see Clutch play at Bonnaroo a few years back, but not an unwelcome one. They’re a band that can cross contexts very, very well. Two more odds-on faves for aftershows, I think. Both have done very well at Stubb’s and I’ve seen Clutch at least once at Emo’s, so they could play a packed out gig there no problem.)
SXSW BUZZ BANDS
School of Seven Bells
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 (no, really)
The Decemberists
Andrew Bird
Passion Pit
Grizzly Bear
The Avett Brothers
(All bands that killed at SXSW and all bands that have a good chance of killing in a big park, especially the large form rock of School of Sven Bells, the kitchen-sink pop of Decemberists and the progressive bluegrass of the Avett Brothers. Another bunch of folks that could play very crowded aftershows.)
HAD NO IDEA THEY STILL HAD BUZZ BAND
Arctic Monkeys
(And yet here we are)
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ACL Fest 2009 lineup announced
What: The lineup for the eighth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival was released today by concert promoters C3 Presents.
Confirmed: The worst-kept secret in the Austin music scene — headliners will be Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, the Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Ben Harper and Relentless7 , and Thievery Corporation.
When: Oct. 2 to 4 at Zilker Park
Tickets: Three-day passes are $185 at aclfestival.com.
What you get: More than 130 artists will play the three-day shindig, including Sonic Youth, Mos Def, Flogging Molly, Lily Allen and the Decemberists. The grids: Now we wait to see who’s playing against whom and who’s headlining when.
Breaking down the lineup a little, we find:
ACL first-timers: Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, the Beastie Boys, John Legend, the Dead Weather (Jack White’s new band), the Levon Helm Band, Sonic Youth
Austin-based highlights: Ghostland Observatory, Asleep at the Wheel (every festival and counting!), the Scabs, Reckless Kelly, Black Joe Lewis, Papa Mali, Heartless Bastards, Terri Hendrix, Leatherbag, Nelo
R&B and hip-hop: John Legend, Mos Def, the Knux, Michael Franti & Spearhead
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