Austin City Limits
Mumford & Sons, Major Lazer and LCD Soundsystem headline Austin City Limits 2016. Getty Images

Austin is weird all year long, but once a year the hipster-cowboy population of Texas' most offbeat city makes the short pilgrimage across the Colorado river to Ziller park for a celebration of the city's musical eccentricity at the Austin City Limits music festival.

Austin City Limits, which kicks off Friday, is one of the most anticipated events of the ever-expanding music festival calendar. Two Door Cinema Club, Mumford & Sons, Major Lazer and LCD Soundsystem headline the first weekend of this year's two-weekend festival before the festival resumes next weekend on Oct. 6. Tens of thousands of music fans are expected to attend, but not everyone can make it down to the festival to take in the acts first hand. Passes for the festival are sold out, so most people will be watching from home.

Red Bull TV will be streaming select sets from the weekend's lineup on multiple channels rotating between the festival's many stages for those watching online. The broadcast will feature two channels on Friday and three channels on Saturday and Sunday starting at 2 p.m. local time. Once the festival ends, Red Bull TV's live stream will launch an event replay 30 minutes later with highlights from the weekend. The broadcasts will be hosted by Sal Masakela and Hannah Rad, who will interview some of the biggest artists and and give fans a peek behind the scenes. The full live stream schedule for all three channels is available below and on Red Bull TV's website.

Friday

Channel 1

  • 2:10 p.m.: The Front Bottoms
  • 3:00 p.m.: Frightened Rabbit
  • 4:05 p.m.: The Strumbellas
  • 5:10 p.m.: St. Lucia
  • 6:15 p.m.: Foals
  • 7:20 p.m.: Flume
  • 8:30 p.m.: Major Lazer

Channel 2

  • 2:10 p.m.: Asleep at the Wheel
  • 4:00 p.m.: Jess Glynne
  • 5:00 p.m.: Flight Facilities
  • 6:00 p.m.: Banks & Steelz
  • 7:00 p.m.: Chairlift
  • 8:00 p.m.: Blue October
  • 9:00 p.m.: Cold War Kids

Saturday

Channel 1

  • 2:10 p.m.: Bayonne
  • 2:40 p.m.: Nothing But Thieves
  • 3:30 p.m.: Saint Motel
  • 4:35 p.m.: City and Colour
  • 6:45 p.m.: Melanie Martinez
  • 7:50 p.m.: Cage the Elephant
  • 9:00 p.m.: Kygo

Channel 2

  • 2:10 p.m.: HONNE
  • 2:55 p.m.: Israel Nash
  • 3:30 p.m.: Gallant
  • 4:30 p.m.: Andra Day
  • 6:30 p.m.: The Naked and Famous
  • 7:30 p.m.: Andrew Bird
  • 9:00 p.m.: Two Door Cinema Club

Channel 3

  • 2:55 p.m.: Corbu
  • 3:30 p.m.: Lewis Del Mar
  • 4:30 p.m.: Cavemen
  • 6:30 p.m.: DJ Mustard
  • 8:30 p.m.: M83

Sunday

Channel 1

  • 2:10 p.m.: Brett Dennen
  • 3:00 p.m.: Wild Belle
  • 4:05 p.m.: Local Natives
  • 5:10 p.m.: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
  • 7:15 p.m.: Miike Snow
  • 8:20 p.m.: Mumford & Sons

Channel 2

  • 2:10 p.m.: Shane Smith & The Saints
  • 3:00 p.m.: Lizzo
  • 3:45 p.m.: Wild Child
  • 4:45 p.m.: Margo Price
  • 5:45 p.m.: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
  • 7:00 p.m.: Young the Giant
  • 8:30 p.m.: LCD Soundsystem

Channel 3

  • 2:10 p.m.: VHS Collection
  • 3:00 p.m.: Domo Genesis
  • 4:00 p.m.: The Shelters
  • 5:45 p.m.: Chronixx & Zincfence Redemption

Many of the weekend's biggest performances will also air live on SiriusXM satellite radio channels The Spectrum, Alt Nation, BPM, SiriusXMU, as well as on the Sirius XM app. The stations will air interviews and reported features from the festival grounds in addition to the music. A broadcast schedule is available on SiriusXM's official site here.


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