Earlier this week, we shared a handful of snaps with you that our own Julie Ruiz took last weekend at the Austin City Limits Festival, deep in the heart of Texas. Well, we just got a look at some of the black-and-white outtakes of artists like Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green and Sara Bareilles and couldn’t resist the urge to share them with you.
[Photo: A Horse With No Name Photography]
Tags: Austin City Limits, Festivals, Music, Broken Social Scene, Elbow, Empire of the Sun, The Walkmen, Cults, Iron & Wine, Foster the People, Arcade Fire, Theophilus London, Cee-Lo, Sara Bareilles, TV on the Radio, Kanye West
Autumn weather may be in full swing, but this weekend, 70,000 music fans flocked to the musical (and actual) capitol of Texas for one last burst of summer: the 2011 Austin City Limits Festival. Over a hundred artists played on one of the festival’s eight stages, and VH1 photographer Julie Ruiz was on site, following the sounds and snapping pictures of Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, and seventeen others—including three of the can’t-miss sets we recommended. Before this weekend, we thought we were all festival-ed out, but looking at this gallery gives us all-too-fresh pangs of jealousy.
[Photo Credit: A Horse With No Name]
Tags: Austin City Limits, Festivals, Music, Photos, Fleet Foxes, Broken Social Scene, Elbow, Empire of the Sun, The Walkmen, Phosphorescent, Cults, Iron & Wine, The Head and The Heart, City and Colour, Foster the People, Arcade Fire, James Blake, Theophilus London, Cee-Lo, Stevie Wonder, Sara Bareilles, TV on the Radio, Kanye West
Theophilus London is not your average MC from Brooklyn. An adept rapper who has a penchant for skinny pants and nerd-rock glasses, fans (and detractors) might not categorize his music as hip-hop at all. This makes sense considering his non-mixtape debut, Lovers Holiday, features guest appearances by indie-rock luminaries like Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio) Sara Quin (Tegan& Sara) and Glasser. Theophilus raps on all of his songs, but this EP feels less inspired by hip-hop than Prince‘s eclectic mix of R&B, pop, rock and New Wave.
After the jump, find out which SXSW acts this mixed bag MC is excited to see.
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Tags: 2011 SXSW, Music Videos, New Look, South By Southwest, SXSW, Tyler the Creator, Video, TV on the Radio, Theophilus London, Tegan & Sara, Glasser
