Austin City Limits Festival Brings In GNR, Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Robyn and the Cure
By Chris Willman
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – If you thought the Woodstock 2019 lineup was eclectic (or still is eclectic, depending on whom you’re listening to ), wait until you get a load of the just-announced bill for the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October, which may set a new standard for destination smorgasbords.
The list of headliners reads like a “pick one from every category” exercise — in a good way: ACL is claiming the artist of the moment in Billie Eilish, the artist of the 1987 moment in Guns N’ Roses, an alternative 1987 favorite in , blockbuster hip-hop in the form of Cardi B, critically and popularly beloved R&B with Childish Gambino, guitar-less contemporary rock via Tame Impala, arena-scaled Euro-roots-rock with Mumford & Sons and everyone’s favorite EDM-pop diva, Robyn. Throw in 2019 zeitgeist queens Lizzo and and the banquet has some extra BBQ sauce.
The ACL Festival takes places over two successive weekends, Oct. 4-6 and 11-13, in Austin’s Zilker Park. Some tickets are already on sale, including three-day general admission tickets for $260. Other levels to go on sale later run the gamut from $105 for single-day GA to $3600 for a platinum pass with luxury amenities.
Gambino makes his ACL Festival debut this year after canceling in 2018 due to injury.
The lineup also includes such currently buzzed-about artists as , Kacey Musgraves, Lauren Daigle and Jack White’s freshly reunited Raconteurs. Thom Yorke’s side project Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes will made the trip to Texas. Other high-profile names on the bill include Jenny Lewis, Gary Clark Jr., 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Tyler Childers, James Blake, ’s producer-brother Finneas, King Princess and Kali Uchis.
In contrast to Coachella, which has the exact same lineup over two weekends (except for, this year, Kanye West’s church service), has a mixture, with some acts performing only one weekend but most doing both. Among the eight artists billed as headliners, all are doing both weekends except for , who is set only for the first go-round, and , who will only be performing on weekend two.
