The Austin City Limits Music Festival is always one to look forward to every single year in the fall. This year turned out to be another spectacular show to be put together by ACL. There was a bit of every genre across the lineup for every music fan to enjoy.
This year brought back artists that we haven’t seen in awhile and some that we saw just a few years ago but now performing on bigger stages. Of course we had to see our guy Kendrick Lamar. After great success from his latest album Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers he brought his show to Austin and a packed out crowd came to see Kendrick headline night one of the festival. On the other stage headlining night one was The Lumineers who always put on a great show.
Night two was headlined by rock legends The Foo Fighters. No matter where they play they always bring the best out of us and Austin loves this band and we know Dave Grohl loves Austin. The 1975 also headlined and brought tears to our eyes. Of course they were happy tears but also sad tears as fans knew the band would be taking a hiatus on touring for quite some time, so that may have been the last time we ever see them.
Night three was headlined by EDM duo Odesza, as well as the Austin favorites, Mumford and Sons. A lot of complaints and joy filled the air when we saw that Mumford and Sons would be coming back to ACL. Although they have performed at ACL quite a few times either as a full band or solo, their last appearance was in 2019 so about 4 years in between for the full band being here. Although people complained about that, we saw they attracted a huge crowd which many didn’t expect because of how much they’ve been here before. We loved their performance everytime we see them and we’re glad to see them together and performing their hit songs we all love and enjoy.
Although we love the headliners we showed a lot of love to the supporting acts which had quite a bit of our favs and we discovered some new favorite artists as well. Acts that we saw that we loved included Niall Horan, Kali Uchis, Maggie Rogers, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Lil Yachty, Tove Lo, Declan McKenna, Suki Waterhouse, Glorilla, D4VD, and Labrinth amongst others.
We know ACL always brings the heat regardless of what people have to say. We love how this festival brings in artists who we may not know and right after ACL they blow up and we remember seeing them before playing to small crowds. It always takes us back to seeing Lizzo being the first act on the Honda stage in 2016 and 3 years later she had one of the biggest crowds we’ve ever seen at ACL.
