For those of you who were not in Austin or are just having withdrawals, ORANGE Magazine compiled some highlights from South by Southwest’s Music Festival.
Each year, everyone goes crazy for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Flocks of people ranging from teenagers to grandparents flood Zilker Park to witness a vast array of live music over the course of three days for two weekends in a row.
I was a senior in high school the first time I attended ACL. My wristband was a birthday gift from a boyfriend at the time, and together we strategically planned which artists to go see, what vendors to visit, transportation to and from Round Rock, and how we were going to get out of a mandatory marching band event that Friday night. We ended up using the excuse that we were going out of town to a wedding (which wasn’t technically false — my eyeballs joined Coldplay in holy matrimony that Friday night), but the point is that while hours of planning were invested in this process, my first ACL experience was riddled with mistakes that could have been avoided. Three years later, I’m attending my fourth ACL with an inch or two of wisdom. I present the “ATX Rookie Guide” to ACL.
