Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys will make their Austin City Limits Music Festival debut as headliners of the eighth edition of the event in Austin's Zilker Park on Oct. 2-4 2009. Kings of Leon, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation, John Legend, The Dead Weather, The Levon Helm Band and hometown favorites Ghostland Observatory are among the 130 bands and musicians who will play the annual festival.
Sonic Youth, Mos Def, Toadies, Flogging Molly, the B-52's, Lily Allen, Citizen Cope, Arctic Monkeys, the Decemberists, Coheed and Cambria, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk, Phoenix, Poi Dog Pondering, Los Amigos Invisibles and dozens of other pop, rock, country, hip hop, blues, reggae and indie rock acts will fill eight stages for three days on the vast Zilker Park lawn.
Three days festival passes are available for the regular price of $185 (with no service fees), as well as VIP packages, at aclfestival.com.
Pearl Jam have long been courted by festival producers, C3 Presents, for the Austin event, especially after the promoters convinced the band to play the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago in 2007 - its first large festival show in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Pearl Jam is also planning to tape an appearance on the Austin City Limits television show, the beloved public television series that is the festival's inspiration.
Last year, ACL was the fifth highest-grossing festival reported to Billboard Boxscore at $11.8 million, with an aggregate attendance of 218,000. For a complete line up click here:/2009.aclfestival.com
You can of course jump into the whole social media thing by connecting with the festival on Facebook, MySpace, email and mobile. They'll of course be tweeting their hearts out on Twitter because everyone is doing it, and ACL doesn't want to be left out.