Another festival announces its lineup and once again music fans need to hunt through the second, third and fourth billed to figure out how the Austin City Limits Music Festival will  distinguish itself from other gatherings when it takes over the Texas capital's Zilker Park  Sept. 26-28.
The acts providing a little something we are not seeing elsewhere: Beck, who only has three bookings this summer; Manu Chao; John Fogerty; David  Byrne; Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band; Gillian Welch; and  Roky Erickson.
Headliners Foo Fighters and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss will add the ACL dates to North American tours.
Others on the bill are the Raconteurs, the Mars Volta, Gnarls Barkley, N.E.R.D.,  Tegan and Sara, Iron & Wine, G. Love & Special Sauce,  Neko Case, Band of Horses, The Swell Season, Silversun Pickups, Gogol  Bordello, Gillian Welch, The Black Keys, Against Me!, Sharon Jones &  the Dap Kings, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, Slightly Stoopid, Duffy and others.
Three-day passes are available for $170 at the ACL website.