Achtung Baby!

ACL 07 - LCD Soundsystem - Devotchka - Muse

ACL 07 LCD Soundsystem from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

ACL 07 Devotchka "How it Ends" from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

Untitled from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

ACL 07 day 3 - Regina Rules

ACL Fest LOVES Regina Spektor, she had a Huge crowd and was visibly overwhelmed when she first came on stage. She said she wanted to just stand and stare at us.

ACL 07 Regina Spektor Bobbing For Apples from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

More videos later.

ACL 07 day two - MUSE

ACL MUSE Knights from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

+ Photo gallery: Day 2 at ACL Music Festival 9.15.07
+ ACL: Four Bands Save Day Two from Meh-ness

Austin City Limits Festival 2007 Day 1

ACL Fest 2007 Bjork from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

+ "Toward the end of her set Bjork's speaker, which was behind a huge ACL banner, spontaneously caught on fire!"

+ The (Non-Arcade) Fire
+ Four burned at Austin City Limits Music Festival

+ ACL: Where The Streets Are Paved With Vomit

+ ACL (Day 1): A Rant: I learned today I have an incredible superpower: I have the power to turn whoever I stand next to at a large outdoor concert into the most annoying person in the world.

[spoon] live Cherry Bomb

Spoon "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" Live @ Austin 9/13/07 from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

+ KUT.ORG & ACL FEST 2007

ACL is almost here

+ Helter skelter in the summer swelter: ACL Festival: A look back
+ ACL Survivor Guide: Part 4 - A Quick Summary
+ ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury..
+ Austin Chronicle's Guide

ACL Fest, Austin, This and That

It's ACL Fest week here in Austin.

+ The White Stripes pull out of ACL | Muse will take White Stripes slot
"One wonders whether this will solve the audience-splitting problem created by the Arcade Fire/White Stripes conflict."

+ ACL Band Clash, Round 1: Spoon Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age

The Accidental Gentrifist

And sure, since you mention it, I am a little sensitive to the whole ‘Californians are flocking here, buying up real estate and homogenizing local culture’ ideology. Because it’s just not true. It’s a generalization. A stereotype that’s more reflective of your own fear and ignorance than any actual phenomenon. About as on-beam as saying gypsies steal children, or that Jews need the blood of Christian virgins, otherwise the matzoh comes out all doughy. Or that Mexicans are leprocidal wage invaders. Or maybe you’re right-on. Maybe we’re on the verge of a massive wave of people uprooting from Santa Cruz and Marin and Santa Barbara, spontaneously deciding to give up six-figure jobs, valley produce, seven months of skiing, and an Eden-like coastline—in order to live in a hot-as-seven-hells, ocean-less city surrounded by Republicans, with scant options for decent Italian food, and where the word queso doesn’t actually mean ‘cheese.’ But Lord, do we have football. And music. And healthy, pretty, friendly people... rare enough for a place with both good football and good music. My point is, you're not going to get on the boat unless you're already on board, so to speak.