The 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival is shaping up to be the best yet, with cooler weather, lush green grass, a very solid lineup, and perhaps finest crop of food vendors ever assembled…This ain’t yer daddy’s “state-fare” of turkey legs and funnel cakes…We’re talkin gourmet, Austin-style goodness…even vegetarians have options….and so here’s the…

Taco Town Approved Grub at ACL Fest:

Hudson’s on the Bend
Hot & Crunchy Cone: Shrimp/Chicken/Avocado
NEW! Purple Pig Cone: braised pulled pork w/ purple slaw & horseradish sauce

Mesa Verde Grill
Quesadillas: Spinach Mushroom, Chipotle Chicken or Steak
Smoked Wings with Sweet BBQ or Mango Habenero Sauce

Torchy's Green Chile Pork taco

Torchy’s
Green Chili Pork Taco
Potato Bean Green Chili Taco
Trailer Park Taco

Wahoo’s
Blackened Fish Tacos
Grilled Chicken Tacos
Burritos: Fish/Chicken/Veggie

Moonshine
Fried Fish Tacos w/ Jicima
Lunar Burrito

We entered the fest for our 4th year in a row.. put in 2 salsas – The Chappy’s green tomatillo sauce and an expirimental Peach/Habanero/Red Pepper salsa for the Special Variety class… no prize this year, but we had a blast anyway.. The music was good, the lines were manageable, the beer was cold..and the salsas were a-plenty.. I kinda wish they would have the fest late-afternoon into the evening so that the heat would be more managable.. something tells me eating hot sauce in the mid-day sun could lead to cardiac arrest.

Fest judging results after the jump..
(Pace got 3rd place for People’s Choice Red Sauce? WTF?? )

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Blitzen Trapper

• THURSDAY – 5pm – NPR Party @ the Parish
• THURSDAY – 12mid – official sxsw set @ Radio Room

One of the more vibrant and creative bands on the scene today, Portland’s SubPop sextet Blitzen Trapper combine great folk/rock tunes with warped sonics, skewed arrangements and sticky melodies.  They also put out one of the best albums of 2008. [website: http://blitzentrapper.net/ ]

Listen To: Jericho  (unreleased song from their Daytrotter Session)

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Cabeza’s SXSW schedule

its coming again..here are some bands that caught my eye from the initial announcement:

Akron/Family (Williamsport PA), Annuals (Raleigh NC), Beach House (Baltimore MD), Bedouin Soundclash (Toronto ON), Andrew Bird (Chicago IL), The Crystal Method (Los Angeles CA), Delta Spirit (San Diego CA), The Duhks (Winnipeg MB), Easy Star All-Stars (New York NY), Explosions in the Sky (Austin TX), Tim Finn (Auckland NEW ZEALAND), Sage Francis (Providence RI), Gang Gang Dance (New York NY), Grizzly Bear (Brooklyn NY), Ben Harper and Relentless7 (Los Angeles, CA), Joseph Israel (Ukia CA), Kraak & Smaak (Leiden THE NETHERLANDS), Lissie (Los Angeles CA), Justin Nozuka (Toronto ON), Peelander-Z (New York NY), Ra Ra Riot (Syracuse NY), Stars of Track and Field (Portland OR), Langhorne Slim (Brooklyn NY), Solange and the Hadley Street Dreams (Houston TX), That 1 Guy (Los Angeles CA), 3oh!3 (Boulder CO), Vetiver (San Francisco CA), Wax Fang (Louisville KY), The Wrens (Teaneck NJ)