One thing we're definitely grateful to Austin for is that the city truly lives up to its nickname of "Live Music Capital of the World." Coming off a week in which we saw The Jayhawks for the first time and a week before we go see Wilco play at the new Moody Theater that the Austin City Limits television show folks built, it seems like a perfect time to shine a light on the great variety of live music experiences available here in Austin.
Our first ACL Music Festival was back in 2005 -- two years before we moved here. Throw in ACL 2006 and 2007, on top of every show we've been to here since moving here at the end of that year, and the number of different acts we've caught live in this town is astonishing. Acts starting with every letter of the alphabet, right on up to Z-Trip, and even !!!. Several we've seen multiple times -- when we see Wilco next week, that will be the fifth time we've seen them here in Austin. We've seen The Walkmen five times as well, but those two are still behind local heroes Spoon, who we've caught on half a dozen different occasions, most recently at the Fun Fun Fun Fest just a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks, Austin, for the great music venues. We've been to a pretty wide range of places to catch a show here: Stubbs, Emo's, The Mohawk, Parish, La Zona Rosa, Antone's, Austin Music Hall, Threadgill's, The Backyard, East Side Drive-In, Paramount Theater, Moody Theater, Long Center, plus Zilker Park, Auditorium Shores, Waterloo Park, French Legation, Caesar Chavez Ave. (for Art City Austin), Lustre Pearl (Dickies party at SXSW). Thanks to them all and any place else we've left off.
So we came up with a complete list, at least as far as we can remember, of every artist that Austin has given us the opportunity to see perform. Some of these were opening acts, some headliners, and some were just festival sets, but we've seen them all. If we've caught them multiple times, it's noted in parentheses. The list is long and diverse: iconic acts and no-names, bands that we saw on a reunion tour and bands that have since broken up, plenty of local acts and a few from exotic places. As long as we live here, we're pretty confident this list will continue to grow and grow.
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… And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Abe Vigoda (2)
Active Child
Antibalas
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Erykah Badu
The B-52s
Devendra Banhart & the Grogs
Beau Soleil
Beck
Big Boi
Andrew Bird (2)
Bishop Allen
Björk
The Black Keys (2)
The Black and White Years
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party (2)
Blonde Redhead
Blues Traveler
Broken Social Scene
Budos Band
Henry Butler
David Byrne
Cali Zack
Camper van Beethoven
Car Stereo (Wars)
Neko Case (2)
Cat Power
Centro-Matic
Manu Chao
Gary Clark, Jr.
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Common
Cracker
Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves
The Cribs
Crowded House
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Deadmau5
Death
Death Cab for Cutie
Del the Funkee Homosapien (2)
Dengue Fever
The Depreciation Guild
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Dodos
The Donkeys
Daniel Francis Doyle
Kurt Easley
Fitz & the Tantrums
Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Liam Finn
Four Tet
The Fratellis
Fuck Buttons
Ghostland Observatory
Gipsy Kings
Girls
Gnarls Barkley
Adam Green
Cee Lo Green
Grizzly Bear
Grupo Fantasma
Guided By Voices
Buddy Guy
Ben Harper
The Head and the Heart
Heartless Bastards
Here We Go Magic
Jolie Holland
Iron & Wine
Islands (3)
Wanda Jackson
The Jayhawks
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
The Joy Formidable
Kaiser Chiefs (2)
Keane
Kings of Leon
The Knux
Ben Kweller (2)
Joe Lally
LCD Soundsystem
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (3)
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears (3)
Lykke Li
The Little Ones
G. Love & Special Sauce
Lyle Lovett and his Big Band
Lucero
Magnolia Electric Company
Aimee Mann
Damian Marley
Stephen Marley
Massive Attack
Mates of State
Matisyahu
Medeski Martin & Wood
M.I.A.
Mission of Burma
The Mohahans (2)
The Morning Benders
Van Morrison
Bob Mould
The Mountain Goats
My Bloody Valentine
The National (2)
Willie Nelson
New Pornographers (2)
No Age
Peter Bjorn & John
New Pornographers
Oasis
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band
Ogre You Asshole
Oh No Oh My
Okkervil River
One Wolf
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Pavement
Josh T. Pearson
Tom Petty
Phoenix
Phranchyze
Pixies
The Pogues
Public Enemy
Quasi
The Raconteurs (3)
Bruce Robison
Rockwell Knuckles
Raphael Saddiq
Bob Schneider
School of Seven Bells
Screaming Females
Martin Sexton (2)
The Shins
Shonen Knife
Silversun Pickups
Sonic Youth
Omar Souleyman
Regina Spektor
Spoon (6)
Steel Phantoms
Sufjan Stevens
The Strokes
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
Telegraph Canyon
The Thermals (2)
Thievery Corporation (2)
Those Darlins
Times New Viking (3)
Tinariwen
tUnE-yArDs
The Ugly Beats
Ume
Vampire Weekend (2)
Vivan Girls
The Walkmen (5)
M. Ward (3)
Warpaint
Wavves
What Made Milwaukee Famous (2)
White Lies
Wilco (4)
Lucinda Williams
Wolf Parade (2)
Stevie Wonder
Wye Oak
The xx (2)
Yeasayer (2)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo
Z-Trip
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