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Every year at the Austin City Limits festival I find new music to groove to in the studio! Music is an essential part of my creativity and design inspiration. I need music like I need air.

2009 ACL favorites included:

• Mute Math–New Orleans’ electro-rock quartet draws upon new wave and electronic to ambient pop and alt-rock to deliver FRIGGIN’ AWESOME JAMS!!! I loved them. I even got signed by the lead singer…a doppelganger for my husband! I bought the newest album–Armistice–and the original album–Mute Math.
• Ghostland Observatory–They rocked it hard on Saturday night…arguably the best performance of the weekend! They even brought the entire UT Marching Band out on stage! Ghostland Observatory serves up guitars, sequencers and programmed beats into a white-hot mix of punk rock, digitized funk and techno. Taking cues from disparate influences ranging from Daft Punk to Jerry Lee Lewis to Queen, Ghostland Observatory delivers with sweat and screams.
• Thievery Corporation–Exhilarating and eclectic blend of electronica, dub, rock and all manner of ethnic music, I’ve loved Thievery Corporation since I first heard a song of theirs on the movie soundtrack for The Truth About Charlie. They rock it!
• Phoenix–Loved this French band for their upbeat and danceable tunes! And the lead singer fathered Sofia Coppola’s child…an interesting celebrity tidbit.
• The Knux–For a hip-hop twist, check out The Knux. I love their creative use of instrumentation and electronics, and savvy use of slinky ’70s-sounding guitar lines. Fun!
• Citizen Cope–Born in Memphis, Cope delivers a folk-pop/blues/hip-hop/reggae/soul sound that is distinctive and hypnotic. He sang my favorite song on Saturday–Sideways. Awesome.
• STS9–Once again, Waterloo Records was sold out of STS9 records yesterday when I went for my yearly music feast. This band is awesome and has very groovable tunes for studio time!
• Cotton Jones–I had never heard this band before, but really enjoyed their trippy dreamy sounds that weave elements of folk, jazz, and country into a woozily melodic quilt of Americana with psychedelic sensibilities.
• Ben Harper and Relentless7–Gotta love Ben Harper anyway, but his new band is truly jamming awesome tunes!
• Passion Pit–Very playful eclectic electronica tunes that are fun to groove around to as I’m working in the studio.
• Arctic Monkeys–A favorite of mine since I saw them two years ago at ACL, I added their new album to my collection happily!
• B52s–I took a walk down memory lane and remembered dancing in college to these awesome tunes! This band is STILL rocking it! Unbelievable! (Although, they did give themselves a bit of a glamour shot for their band pic…)

AND….we also got to catch The Gourds at an after show at Threadgills. These guys JAM it HARD…and rewarded us with a rare rendition of ‘Gin and Juice’ which they adapted from…you guessed it…Snoop Dogg.

I can’t believe I have to wait another whole year for the next ACL Festival! Drats!

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