Best of Austin®

Best Annual Festival

Austin City Limits Music Festival

That first year, 2002, the Arc Angels crowned Zilker Park's inaugural music marathon like a picnic in, well, Zilker Park. Dark as pitch, there was plenty of room to spread out a blanket in front of the main stage, looking at the stars while repeating, "There's no place like home." Last year, Pearl Jam roiled its muddy mosh pit like the fields at Woodstock ’94. Everything in between, for the perennially sold-out and now three-day festival, has followed that yellow brick road.