Watch Panic! At the Disco Play at a Rodeo

While most of the music world is making a beeline to Austin for South by Southwest with many performers trying to get as many high-profiled gigs at the actual event, it’s nice to see that one of our favorite bands decided to do the complete opposite of that.

Leave it to Panic! at the Disco to decide to give fans a surprise by showing up in the middle of a rodeo to give an “impromptu” concert which featured some of their discography as well as a cover of Journey’s “Any Way You Want It” and AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.”

We swear, we aren’t making this up.

According to sources who were lucky enough to be at the show, the band came in on, what else, a tractor and gave them all a once-in-a-lifetime show. We say once-in-a-lifetime because we’re sure this is never going to happen again.

Check out some fanshot video, which might not be the best videos in the world, but they get the job done.

Surprisingly, Panic! at the Disco have been quiet for sometime now. The last we heard from the band was actually from frontman Brendon Urie when the “Drunken History of Fall Out Boy” was posted by the band a few months ago.

On the upside, they do have a handful of concerts coming up this year mostly including festivals like Tulsa’s Center of the Universe Festival and Reading and Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Austin City Limits 2014 Line-up Revealed

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Outkast can now add another music festival to their schedule, The Austin City Limits Music Festival which is set to take place in October. 

The line-up for the yearly festival which will be celebrating its 13th was unveiled earlier today with headliners Outkast, Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Beck and Calvin Harris.

Organizers also announced the diverse list of performers that will also be making up the bill such as Lana Del Rey, Foster The People, The Replacements, Major Lazer, The Avett Brothers, Spoon, The Head and the Heart, Belle & Sebastian, Lorde (only performing on weekend two), Zedd, CHVRCHES, Juanes, Iggy Azalea, Icona Pop, Paolo Nutini, Sam Smith, KONGOS, Temples, Ana Tijoux, Hozier, MØ, Zoé, Interpol, AFI, CHVRCHES and the Gaslight Anthem.

The full list of artists to make up the bill can be seen below on the festival’s official flyer below. 

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The 13th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival is set to take place at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for two weekends; Oct. 3-5 for weekend one and Oct. 10-12 for weekend two. 

For those interested in going, three-passes go on sale beginning today at 10 a.m. central time on the festival’s official website.  

MTVU Woodie Award Nominees Released

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The MTVU Woodie Award nominees have been revealed and yes, some Top 40 radio did happen to leak onto the college radio oriented award show.

The 10th annual event honors those tracks and musicians that are spun at your local college radio station on repeat and will once again happen in Austin during the South by Southwest Music Festival. For those not able to make it to Austin for SXSW, the half-an-hour 2014 Woodie Awards Special will air on March 16 at 8 p.m. on MTV.

The Arcade Fire, Lorde, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Drake, Jay Z, Pharrell, Imagine Dragons, Bastille, Disclosure, the 1975, Chance the Rapper and A$AP Rocky are just some of the nominees that are up for several nominations including ‘Best Video Woodie’ and ‘Best Performing Woodie.’

We know, so many sexual innuendos, so little time.

The full list of nominations and their respected categories can been seen below.

2014 MTVU WOODIE AWARD NOMINEES:

Woodie of the Year:
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Pharrell
Drake
Zedd
Disclosure

Breaking Woodie:
Bastille
Martin Garrix
The 1975
Jhene Aiko
Sam Smith
Mack Wilds

Best Video Woodie:
Disclosure, “Grab Her”
Passion Pit, “Carried Away”
Chance the Rapper, “Everybody’s Something”
Iggy Azalea, “Bounce”
Arcade Fire, “Afterlife”

Did It My Way Woodie:
Beyoncé — Released her new, self-titled album without any prior promotion.
Kanye West — Created an interactive music video experience for Yeezus
Arcade Fire — Creatively utilized social media, street art and pop-up performances to launch the Reflektor album.
Childish Gambino — Hosted impromptu album listening sessions in public parks for Because the Internet.
Bob Dylan — Created a 16 channel interactive music video for “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Performing Woodie:
Tyler the Creator
Ed Sheeran
Jay Z
Arcade Fire
The National
The XX

Best Collaboration Woodie:
A$AP Rocky and Skrillex — “Wild For the Night”
Avicii and Aloe Blacc — “Wake Me Up”
Just Blaze and Baauer featuring Jay Z — “Higher”
Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons — “Radioactive (remix)”
Daft Punk and Pharrell — “Get Lucky”
James Blake and Chance he Rapper — “Life Round Here”

College Radio Woodie (Best College Radio Station):
Ball State University (WCRD)
Boston University (WTBU)
East Stroudsburg University (WESS)
Eastern Illinois University (WEIU)
Indiana University (WIUX)
Texas State University – San Marcos (KTSW)
University of California – Berkeley (KALX)
University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana (WPGU)
University of South Carolina (WUSC)
William Paterson University (WPSC)

Austin City Limits Line-Up Revealed

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Last week, Muse let the cat out of the bag that the band would be headlining the annual Austin City Limits Festival, and today the full line-up for the event has been revealed. Sharing the bill with Muse are The Cure, Fun., Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups and many more.

The festival will take during two weekend, October 4-6 and October 11-13, at Zilker Park, in you guessed it, Austin. Tickets are currently on sale at the event’s website, but for now, you can check out the trailer for the festival and then take a look at the full line-up of performers.

LINE UP:

  • Depeche Mode
  • The Cure
  • Muse
  • Kings of Leon
  • Atoms for Peace
  • Lionel Richie
  • Phoenix
  • Wilco
  • Vampire Weekend
  • The National
  • Eric Church
  • Passion Pit
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • fun.
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • D’Angelo
  • Kaskade
  • Tame Impala
  • Local Natives
  • The Shouting Matches
  • Toro Y Moi
  • Grimes
  • Portugal. The Man
  • Silversun Pickups
  • The Joy Formidable
  • Neko Case
  • Divine Fits
  • Grouplove
  • Jimmy Eat World
  • The Black Angels
  • The Bright Light Social Hour
  • The Mavericks
  • Okkervil River
  • Shuggie Otis
  • Purity Ring
  • Dawes
  • Haim
  • Smith Westerns
  • Junip
  • Walk the Moon
  • Vintage Trouble
  • Noah and the Whale
  • Paper Diamond
  • Lissie
  • Pinback
  • The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • Wild Belle
  • Phosphorescent
  • Court Yard Hounds
  • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
  • Foxygen
  • Little Green Cars
  • Savages
  • Autre Ne Veut
  • Parquet Courts
  • Fidlar
  • White Denim
  • True Believers
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama
  • Delta Rae
  • Jake Bugg
  • The Lone Bellow
  • Electric Guest
  • Dan Croll
  • Deap Vally
  • Wild Nothing
  • Typhoon
  • Hundred Waters
  • Twin Forks
  • Red Baraat
  • Electric Six
  • Shovels & Rope
  • Reignwolf
  • Mona
  • MS MR
  • Widowspeak
  • Asleep at the Wheel
  • Bear Mountain
  • Greensky Bluegrass
  • JD McPherson
  • Valerie June
  • Wild Feathers
  • Roadkill Ghost Choir
  • JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound
  • Desert Noises
  • The Band of Heathens
  • Holly Williams
  • Alanna Royale
  • Cherub
  • The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker
  • Shinyribs
  • Jacuzzi Boys
  • Wick-it the Instigator
  • Shakey Graves
  • Houndmouth
  • Wild Cub
  • Peterson Brothers Band
  • Luella and the Sun
  • X Ambassadors
  • Sons of Fathers
  • Courrier
  • My Jerusalem
  • Not in the Face
  • Dana Falconberry
  • Bobby Jealousy
  • Whiskey Shivers
  • The Preservation
  • Max Frost
  • Latasha Lee & The BlackTies
  • Caleb
  • Shannon LaBrie
  • Andrew Duhon
  • Kristin Diable & The City
  • Colin Lake
  • Brooke Waggoner
  • Tyree Morris & Hearts of Worship
  • Endurance
  • The Stapletones
  • Heavenly Voices Choir
  • The McCrary Sisters
  • Disciples of Christ
  • The Hensley Ensemble
  • The Durdens
  • The Warrior Gospel Band
  • Barton Hills Choir
  • The Verve Pipe
  • School of Rock
  • Tim and the Space Cadets
  • Peter DiStefano & Tor
  • Grace London
  • Playdate
  • The Ohmies
  • The Q Brothers
  • Andy Z
  • Caspar Babypants