ACL Fest is sold out
Unless you have big bucks for VIP Passes, Platinum Passes or Travel Packages, you’ll have to search Craigslist for 3-day or single day passes.
Today’s distraction: Google’s Doodle featuring a playable Moog
As if the Internet doesn’t provide enough distractions already (we’re looking at you, LOLCats), Google is featuring a doodle celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday. His Moog synthesizer changed the way we hear music and brought electronic music to the masses, as Charles Carlini, a New York concert promoter, told the Associated Press.
So of course we had to make a song (not a very good one). We have a feeling you could do better. Send us a link to yours.
Not sure how to use the Doodle? Check out this video tutorial courtesy of the Goog.
Most-played list: Another win for Gotye
Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ is the most-played song in Austin, in case you didn’t know after hearing it 245 times this past week.
Photo: Chris Pizzello/Associated Press
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and The Black Keys are this year’s headliners for the 2012 Austin City Limits Festival.
Check out the full lineup and let us know what you think.
Scene report: R. Kelly drops in (and not much else) at The Mansion
It sounds like R. Kelly’s performance at The Mansion in North Austin was a big fail. R. Kelly didn’t arrive at the venue until 12:45 a.m. and performed a medley of songs for about five minutes.
From our scene report:
A few minutes later he took the microphone - still in the V.I.P. section and thus mostly invisible to most there - and did three-quarters of “Ignition (Remix)” and a mostly a cappella bit of “Bump N’ Grind” (with the audience filling in and doing the heavy lifting when it came to singing) before deciding he’d given the crowd what they paid for. That was five minutes, at most, of music, which equates to $6 a minute for the lowest-paying customers.
DJ collective Peligrosa brings world of sounds to its dance parties
After realizing that I was supplying a demand for Latin music that wasn’t being met anywhere else in Austin nightclubs, I both knew and had the urge to create a dedicated night for the music I grew up with (mostly Colombian cumbia and Puerto Rican salsa, plena and son).
- Orión García on his DJ collective Peligrosa, which will be performing at Pachanga Fest this weekend.
