This is gonna be a great ACL Fest!!

The 2009 lineup
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Beastie Boys
Kings of Leon
Ben Harper and Relentless7
Thievery Corporation
John Legend
The Dead
Weather
The Levon Helm Band
Ghostland Observatory
Sonic Youth
Mos Def
Toadies
Flogging Molly
The B-52s
Lily Allen
Citizen Cope
Arctic Monkeys
The Decemberists
Coheed and Cambria
Andrew Bird
Girl Talk
STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)
Phoenix
Bassnectar
Bon Iver !!!
Avett Brothers
The Airborne
Toxic Event
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Clutch
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Grizzly Bear
Heartless Bastards
Passion Pit
White Lies
Dan Auerbach
The Walkmen
The Scabs
Reckless Kelly
DeVotchka
Blitzen Trapper
The Virgins
Here We Go Magic
Eek-A-Mouse
K'Naan
Asleep at the Wheel
Dr. Dog
The Raveonettes
The Knux
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
State Radio
Los Amigos Invisibles
The Felice Brothers
Federico Aubele
Raul Malo
Daniel Johnston
Poi Dog Pondering
Brett Dennen
Rodriguez
Henry Butler
Preservation Hall
Sam Roberts Band
The Greencards
Sara Watkins
Walter "Wolfman" Washington
David Garza
John Vanderslice
Zac Brown Band
Todd Snider
School of Seven Bells
The Dodos
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
Alberta Cross
Deer Tick
Bell X1
Alela Diane
The Wood Brothers
The Parlor Mob
Rebirth Brass Band
Marva Wright
Terri Hendrix
L.A.X.
Lisa Hannigan
The Low Anthem
Sons of Bill
Suckers
Sarah Jaffe
Cotton Jones
The Henry Clay People
Papa Mali
Jypsi
Vince Mira
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights
Mimicking Birds
Jeffrey Steele
Jonell Mosser
Leatherbag
Keith Gattis
Damien Horne
Sarah Siskind
The Dexateens
Nelo
Danny Brooks
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Soul Stirrers
The Durdens
Palm School Elementary
The Gospel Silvertones
Diaconos
Quinn Sullivan
Ralph's World
Q Brothers
Milkshake
Telephone Company
Loose Cannons
Lunch Money

Some really huge acts this year all over the place and some that I really enjoy but haven't seen in years:
Toadies, Medeski Martin Wood (haven't seen in nearly 10 years), Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek fame..wonder if she'll play with the DMB?)
Some that I've never seen and am looking forward to: Robyn Hitchcock, Michael Franti, Ben Harper, David Garza.

cannot wait for this one.

Dave Matthews Band? Are you fucking kidding me?! What a joke. I guarantee that set will be bro'd out.

what is with the intense dislike of the Dave Matthews Band around here? wow.

it shall be epic.

Well, this year we have solid headliners, nice job...only a few good mid-level(Ghostland, STS9, Arctic Monkeys), and then it drops way off. Oh, well. I will be there having a great experience as usual.

Either Pearl Jam or Dave Matthews Band on their own would have been in the top one or two headliners in this festival's short history (I respect those who prefer Coldplay). To get both in one festival is amazing. Only problem is that future years will suck by comparison. They probably should have saved one of them!

This actually got to be the worse lineup ACL has ever had. Commerical headliners and lack of middle tier bands. I do like to see some of the bands, even if I have seen some of them before, Ghostland, Citizen, Andrew Bird, DeVotchk, to name a few. This might to be a ACL to remember for the wrong reasons.

Cool!! Daniel Johnston, Todd Snider, Dan Auerbach, Black Joe Lewis.

Oh, yeah. Dead Weather. Jack White will never be left out of ACL i guess.

Very top heavy lineup.....dave and kings of leon are a couple of my favorite bands, but the lineup really drops off this year. Great thing about previous lineups was it was solid all the way towards the bottom. I would say there are 25-30 of all the bands I recognize, and 10-15 I really care to see. But hopefully like last year the bands I don't know as well will surprise me. But I really expected a bigger selection of mid-level bands. Oh well. The Toadies surprised me, that is going to be the sleeper huge set of the festival this year like Gogo Bordello was last year. See you guys in Austin!

I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than experience the DMB set. I'm sad Mars Volta or Muse won't be there. I'll be there nonetheless, and at least I'll beat all the traffic one night when I get to take off early instead of watching the buttfuck that is DMB.

I'm not very happy with many aspects of the line-up. Where is our classic voice? Lolla has Lou Reed, last year we had David Byrne, this year nothing!? I was really dreaming for a big name like Leonard Cohen, Morrisey, or even dare I say Paul McCartney. Instead we get DMB, which should be fun, but makes a poor replacement to its counterparts at other festivals. I feel like we are missing some mid tier acts too, I would have loved to see high-end mid tier bands like Of Montreal, or TV on the Radio. Or even some of the highly reviewed newer acts on other festival billings like Crystal Castles, Atlas Sound, Santigold, etc. Very happy to see Mos Def and Thievery, but again ACL lacks on hip-hop and electronica. I'm from Austin, so I'll be on the grass and welcoming to everyone who comes down. But yet again C3 has decided to charge us the same as they do in Chicago, without the bands that justify the price tag.

I think it was going to be obvious that this year was gonna be top heavy when the three headliners leaked. And i can tell you where your classical voice is, its at the top of the bill under the name Levon Helm Band. If you want want more of a classical voice than that then i dont know what to tell you. Some good stuff for sure, cant wait.

Yeah there arent that many electronic or hip hop acts this year i mean are a few bands like...um...what are those guys called. Oh yeah Beastie Boys, or Thievery Corporation, or Mos Def, or Girl Talk, or Bassnectar...to name a few