After attending the very first ACL Fest I vowed never to go back; however, given the opportunity by my job at KVRX (and the prospect of free food and drinks in the media tent), I gave in.
It's been a little over a week since I went to the first day of ACL Fest 2007, and what I remember most is looking for a place to lock up my trusty bicycle.

so i know i am way late on this one, but did anyone else see yo la tengo at acl? way killer. maybe best show of the fest. ira kaplan freaking out w/ the feedback... awesome.

Another ACL come and gone, my friends. After going the past three years and being a veteran of ACL 2005 (read: The Other American Dust Bowl), I vowed to never go again. Something about the heat (really, can they not push it back a couple of weeks?), dust, large, sweaty crowds, stale beer, etc. kind of turned me off from the whole festival thing. I think having lived in Austin for the past three years has made me greedy musically: if a band doesn't play in a small(ish) club, then I don't want to see them.

So this past weekend was pretty fun. Saturday night we had a house party with some kvrxers and got sparks to sponsor it!

Oh my god, have you ever heard of this festival called ACL? It's like totally awesome.

I'm thinking someone should declare September to be official ACL Month in Austin, because that's all you hear about for the week before and the week after the festival. It gives everyone something to talk about. Even if you didn't attend, you can talk about the traffic or how you heard Bob Dylan was getting old or how you went to ACL a different year.