ACL Fest Saturday Reviews

ACL FEST

• ACL Fest Friday Schedule

  Friday's full lineup

• ACL Fest Friday Picks

  The blurbing of ACL 2008

• ACL Fest Friday Interviews

• Rodney Crowell

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Yeasayer

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• Del the Funky Homosapien

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Ryan Bingham

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Antibalas

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Alejandro Escovedo

  BY MARGARET MOSER

• ACL Fest Friday Reviews

• Jakob Dylan

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Jamie Lidell

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Delta Spirit

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Patty Griffin

  BY DANIEL MEE

• Mates of State

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

• Jenny Lewis

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• N.E.R.D

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• David Byrne & Brian Eno

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• G. Love & Special Sauce

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• ACL Fest Saturday Schedule

  Saturday's full lineup

• ACL Fest Saturday Picks

  The blurbing of ACL 2008

• ACL Fest Saturday Interviews

• Iron & Wine

  BY DAN OKO

• John Fogerty

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Fleet Foxes

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Spiritualized

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• ACL Fest Saturday Reviews

• Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• The Fratellis

  BY DAN OKO

• Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & the True Loves

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• Erykah Badu

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Man Man

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• CSS

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Electric Touch

  BY DANIEL MEE

• Conor Oberst

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• ACL Fest Sunday Schedule

  Sunday's full lineup

• ACL Sunday Picks

  The blurbing of ACL 2008

• ACL Fest Sunday Interviews

• Scott Biram

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Gillian Welch

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Gnarls Barkley

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• ACL Fest Sunday Reviews

• Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Xavier Rudd

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Blues Traveler

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Okkervil River

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

• White Denim

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Gnarls Barkley

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Austin Kiddie Limits

  For the young'uns

  BY MELANIE HAUPT

• ACL Aftershows

  When the sun goes down

• ACL's Food Court Continues to Expand Its – and Our – Horizons

  Take an ACL break Austin-style with local eateries and portable fine dining

  BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN

• Restaurants Near Zilker

  When ACL's food court isn't enough

• Barton Springs Pool Info

  Take a dip

  BY JAMES RENOVITCH

Erykah Badu

The only thing resembling a pop single on Erykah Badu's latest opus is an afterthought tacked on as a hidden track. "Honey" is sweet and tasty, but Badu's brave New Amerykah is a liberated land, a wild embrace of experimentation, and a gleeful if occasionally paranoid freak-fest. A supercharged futuristic funk groove kicks things off like a lost P-Funk outtake, and if Funkadelic made albums today, it's easy to imagine them sounding like this (even the cover art raises a fist to Maggot Brain). Two songs unlike anything in contemporary music anchor the set: "My People" is a dense forest of swirling sounds and intoxicating chants as ahead of its time as the 1972 Eddie Kendricks anthem it resurrects, while Badu hums the names of deities in a meditative mantra on "The Healer" before boldly proclaiming hip-hop bigger than religion. In Badu's Amerykah, we all pray to the same beat. (4:30pm, AT&T stage.)