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Yesterday, the Austin City Limits Music Festival released the schedule in grid form for this years event. The 2008 edition of the festival is being headlined by The Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, and Beck among others. With the schedule out a good three-and-a-half months before the start of the festival, It gives attendees plenty of time to plan their route of attack. Many conflicts are already standing out for me including N.E.R.D. vs. David Byrne on Friday, September 26th, Beck vs. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss on Saturday the 27th, and The Raconteurs vs. Gnarls Barkley on Sunday the 28th. There are plenty more conflicts on top of those, but when you enjoy and care about music as much as we do, you're bound to have these problems at music festivals.

Take a look at what conflicts you might/might not have after the jump

While nobody can touch the original version of "Jack-Ass" by Beck, our hill-country friends South Austin Jug Band sure do a good job with it. Check it out:

Gotta love this delicious cover!

South Austin Jug Band will be making the journey up to Kansas this weekend to play at Wakarusa (we will have a full report from Waka next week!), and will also be stopping by our favorite Houston venue, Last Concert Cafe, next month. I am not sure if I will be at the festival in time to see them, but the Houston show is definitely in our plans. They are supposed to put on one hell of a show!

The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup was released on April 15, 2008. The event, which is set to take place September 26-28 at Zilker Park in Austin, TX, will feature headlining acts Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and Beck. Also making appearances at the 7th edition of the festival will be Iron & Wine, Hot Chip, Yonder Mountain String Band, Xavier Rudd and Slightly Stoopid.

Check out the full ACL 2008 lineup after the jump

The line-up for the first annual Outside Lands Festival, set for San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on August 22-24, was released today. The event is put on by Superfly Presents (which is the same group who run that other major festival in Tennessee), as well as Another Planet Entertainment and Starr Hill Presents. Like most other festivals this summer, Radiohead and Jack Johnson will be taking headlining duties. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are also set to headline.

Check out the initial line-up after the jump