As anyone who has met someone from Austin knows, it's this incredible town in Texas where everybody plays music, the beer flows like wine and the women flock like the salmon of Capistrano. It's no Aspen, but Austin is a great town for these reasons among others and one of its crown jewels is Austin City Limits, a three-day music festival that kicks off today.
You can watch every band live at pretty good quality for free, thanks to AT&T Blue Room, which is already webcasting live from the event.
Multiple camera angles keep the viewer engaged while three video quality options (100, 300 or 700 Kbps/sec) allow the slower-connected in on the fun. Double-clicking the screen toggles into full-screen mode, which doesn't look half bad at 700 Kbps.
But my favorite part about watching this, so far, is that Blue Room hasn't subjected me to the yappings of cheesy, over-caffeinated, demographically-appropriate hostbots in between acts – just unadulterated sights and sounds from various points around the sunny Texan grounds.
It's nice to watch something this sunny from rainy New York. I can't say every artist who's performing is my cup of tea, but I appreciate that the option is there.
Here's the rest of the line-up scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday – all times EST:
Friday, September 26
12:45 PM Dan Dyer
01:30 PM Rodney Crowell
02:30 PM What Made Milwaukee Famous
03:30 PM Jakob Dylan
04:30 PM Jamie Lidell
05:30 PM Gogol Bordello
06:30 PM Slightly Stoopid
07:30 PM Vampire Weekend
08:30 PM Hot Chip
09:30 PM G. Love and Special Sauce
Saturday, September 27
12:45 PM Mugison
01:30 PM Yeasayer
02:30 PM The Fratellis
03:30 PM Drive-By Truckers
04:30 PM Man Man
05:30 PM Robert Earl Keen
06:30 PM Spiritualized
07:30 PM Conor Oberst
08:30 PM Jose Gonzalez
09:30 PM John Fogerty
Sunday, September 28
12:45 PM Sybris
01:30 PM Nicole Atkins and the Sea
02:30 PM The Kills
03:30 PM Flyleaf
04:30 PM Against Me!
05:30 PM Neko Case
06:30 PM Okkervil River
07:30 PM The Raconteurs
08:45 PM Tegan and Sara
09:30 PM Blues Traveler
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