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Foo Fighters, Beck, David Byrne Added to ACL Bill

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Just last week, Austin City Limits officials teased the lineup for the seventh annual event with a radio mix of tunes unveiling 29 of the festival’s 130 acts. Among the leaked: Gnarls Barkley, the Raconteurs, Neko Case, CSS, Man Man, and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

So what’s up with the other 101 bands, you ask?

Well, today (April 15) we’re treated with the whole shebang: Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Beck, Manu Chao, John Fogerty, David Byrne, the Mars Volta, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Stars, the Black Keys, Against Me!, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, Spiritualized, Jenny Lewis, Gogol Bordello, MGMT, Mates of State, the Swell Season, Jose Gonzalez, Iron & Wine, Duffy, Yeasayer, the Kills, Roky Erickson, Drive-By Truckers, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Mason Jennings, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, and many, many more will perform in Austin’s Zilker Park Sept. 26-28.

Three-day festival passes are available now for $170 via aclfestival.com while supplies last. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Austin Parks Foundation to improve upon Zilker Park and ensure the fans’ enjoyment during future ACL installments, while numerous green initiatives will be utilized throughout the 2008 event, including biodiesel generators, eco-friendly operations, and target carbon neutrality efforts.