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Start your planning: ACL Fest releases the 2013 two-weekend schedule

On Wednesday, Austin City Limits Music Festival released the schedule for its 2013 event, which will span two weekends in October. The lineup — including headliners and up-and-comers — was released in early May, but without details on when each band would hit the stage. The guessing game is now over and festival-goers can begin planning how they'll navigate the three-day weekends of music.

Lionel Richie will close out the festival each Sunday, playing from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the Skyline Stage.

The schedule reveals that headliner slots will be the same for both weekends (October 4-6 and October 11-13).

Both Fridays will feature Depeche Mode from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Muse playing the 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. closing slot. Kings of Leon and The Cure will headline both Saturdays, with The Cure getting a coveted two-hour set from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Lionel Richie will close out the festival each Sunday, playing from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the Skyline Stage.

Although the headliners' schedules don't vary from weekend to weekend, the remainder of the festival programming offers plenty of variables. Early shows each day will highlight a variety of local and up-and-coming acts.

If you can make it to Zilker early in the day, top local picks for the first weekend include Dana Falconberry (October 4, 12:15 p.m.), Bobby Jealousy (October 5, 11:15 a.m.) and The Band of Heathens (October 6, 12:20 p.m.). On the second weekend, look for up-and-comers Sons of Fathers (October 11, 12:20 p.m.), Parquet Courts (October 12, 11:30 a.m.) and The Durdens (October 13, 12 p.m.).

The full schedule for ACL Fest is available online. Tickets for Weekend One are sold out, but three-day passes for Weekend Two are still available.

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Reexamining Don Draper

Jon Hamm, Henry Winkler, and more headed to Austin for TV festival

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Jon Hamm is coming to Austin to talk about Don Draper.

From May 29 to June 1, 2025, the ATX TV Festival will take over downtown Austin, and this year Jon Hamm will be joining the festival for the first time.

Hamm will be here for an event called A Mad Men Retrospective, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show's finale. In this panel (the moderator of which is not yet announced), Hamm will reflect on his Emmy-winning performance as Mad Men's Don Draper, the uniqueness of the character in the TV canon, and the show's influence 10 years after it ended.

Jon Hamm may be best known as Draper, but he's also given celebrated performances in several movies and other shows like Fargo, Black Mirror, and — fun fact! — Gilmore Girls.

Celebrating TV is what the ATX TV Festival is all about. This annual summer event is put on by ATX TV and consists of screenings, Q&As, and panel conversations; plus all sorts of parties, live music, happy hours, and other events. It's known for reunions of classic series and cult hits, and according to the website, it's like "TV camp for grownups."

Jon Hamm isn't the only heavy-hitter in this year's lineup.

Programming also includes an acting class and Q&A with Henry Winkler himself, a live script reading of classic episodes from The Golden Girls and Designing Women (guest actors to be announced), a reunion of the creatives and cast of the HBO hit series The Leftovers, a live recording of the podcast Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast with Suits stars and co-hosts Sarah Rafferty and Patrick J. Adams, and much more.

Additionally, the festival's annual Pitch Competition is still accepting open pitch submissions through January 17. This gives creatives in Austin a chance to pitch their show idea in front of some of the industry's biggest showrunners and executives. Those in the top 10 will receive a year of support to make the next steps in their TV careers.

Festival badges and passes ($150-535) are on sale now.

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