Austin City Limits Festival Day 2

Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing Andy Hull(vocals, guitar) Jonathan Corley(bass) Jeremiah Edmond (drums) Chris Freeman (keyboard) Robert McDowell(guitar) Mean Everything To Nothing, the second album from Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra, is everything you want a rock...

Lucero
Lucero are many things. They're a band that doesn't have fans as much as they have diehards who come to every show and scream the words to every song from their classic albums like Tennessee and That Much Further West.

Pat Green
For a man whose new album begins with a powerful song called "Footsteps of Our Fathers," Pat Green has blazed his own trail in a way that few artists today can claim. Even with all the artistic and popular success he has experienced along the way, What I'm For is the stirring...

Muse
Meet a band inspired by the two best bands of the last decade (Nirvana and Radiohead). A band - average age 20 - with eighty songs and four record deals around the world. A band who've spent the 90's cut off and disenfranchised.

Kinky
Kinky offers a fusion of Latin and rock music. They are known for such songs as "Those Girls" and "Hasta Quemarnos."

Ozomatli
In their fourteen years together as a band, celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli have gone from being hometown heroes to being named U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassadors.

David Bazan
The son of a pastor, David Bazan wasn't introduced to secular music until his early youth, an experience that helped fuel the Christian-influenced songwriting of his first project, Pedro the Lion.

Pete Yorn
American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition when his music—including the song "Strange Condition"—appeared in the 2000 film Me, Myself & Irene.

Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as its core members are immigrants from Eastern Europe.

LCD Soundsystem
this is basically a band. we're getting ready to finish a record and put it "out", whatever that means anymore, into the world next year. i think we're a good live band, but i'm pretty sure we're about to be way better than we've ever been.

MIA
Slowly building momentum since 1999, the band MIA (originally "Me in Affairs," but eventually only used in acronym form) formed in 1997 with the meeting of two musical pairs (separately, Mieze Katz/Andy Penn and Robert Schütze/Ingo Puls) and the addition of a stray drummer.

Bear In Heaven

Silversun Pickups
Silversun Pickups from Los Angeles, California is an American indie rock band consisting of Brian Aubert (lead vocals, guitar), Nikki Monninger (bass, vocals), Christopher Guanlao (drums) and Joe Lester (keyboards).

Matt & Kim
Guitarist/keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino create the giddy, punk-peppered pop music of Matt & Kim. The two musicians (both of whom contribute vocals to the project) came together in 2004 while attending the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

The Temper Trap
A lot of water’s passed under the bridge since The Temper Trap’s delay soaked opening to ‘Sweet Disposition’ first began causing a stir on Australian radio late last year. The track was the first taster of their recording sessions with UK producer Jim Abbiss (UNKLE, Adele, Arctic...

Basia Bulat
Since the age of three, Basia has been sitting on piano stools and trying to hammer things out. It started with her piano-teacher mum, but along the way Basia’s picked up guitar, autoharp, banjo, ukelele, sax and flute.

Beats Antique
Beats Antique was formed in the fall of 2006 in Oakland CA. In their debut album, Beats Antique creates a definitive union between the old and the new. Tribal Derivations is centered in middle eastern bellydance, downtempo hip hop, old school jazz, classical indian, and north african gnawa music.

Deadmau5
Deadmau5, born Joel Zimmerman in 1981 in Toronto, has established himself as a force to reckoned with in the world of progressive house music. He began releasing his tracks on his own label, Mau5trap Recordings, and has won several awards including the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year.

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. They released their first album, Sink or Swim, on XOXO Records in May 2007, and their second album, The '59 Sound, on SideOneDummy Records in August 2008.

Lissie

Ninjasonik
Brooklyn-based duo Ninjasonik, comprised of Reverend McFly and DJ Teenwolf, established itself in fall 2007 with "Tight Pants," a song that generated an impressive amount of blogosphere buzz as an MP3 and YouTube video.

Dan Black
In a quest to somehow weave “Paul’s Boutique” with “( )”; “Hatful Of Hollow” with “Supa Dupa Fly”, and The Notorious B.I.G. with a lost 80’s sci-fi soundtrack...Paris-based English exile Dan Black decided to literally do just that: “I knew what kind of music I wanted make, but...

The Black Lips

First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit are a Swedish duo comprised of sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, whose close vocal harmonies and woodsy, folk-influenced songwriting take influence from the likes of Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom.

Local Natives
Based in Southern California, five-piece indie rock band Local Natives made quick waves at SXSW with their sweeping orchestral songs and celebratory swagger. Bearing musical similarities to Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, and Arcade Fire, their ride toward mainstream...

The Very Best
Formed by Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and British DJ/production duo Radioclit (Johan Karlberg and Etienne Tron), electro-Afro-pop outfit the Very Best came to fruition in 2008 after the trio's free online mixtape found unexpected global success -- their spirited remixes of obscure/popular...

Mayer Hawthorne
Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided.

Monsters of Folk
Monsters of Folk was born on the road five years ago when Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket's Jim James), Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, and singer/songwriter M. Ward toured together and regularly sat in on each other's sets.

The xx
Atmospheric English indie pop quartet the xx formed in London in 2008 around the talents of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim, Baria Qureshi, and Jamie Smith, when the bandmembers were still in high school.

Two Door Cinema Club
Two Door Cinema Club are 3 people with the help of technology and a thirst for anything quirky. If you were to pose the question, “Where do Two Door Cinema Club live?” and someone was to answer, “Why, Bangor!