ACL Fest Schedule Is Out - Rife With Conflicts

Much like Lollapalooza before it, the lineup for this year's Austin City Limits Festival has a ton of problematic scheduling conflicts. Possibly enough so that I skip it too. Not happy.

Friday conflicts
Blonde Redhead vs. Heartless Bastards
(that's it for Friday - Friday's schedule actually is pretty boring to me)

Saturday conflicts
Kevin Devine vs. Willy Mason vs. Ike Reilly Assassination
Steve Earle vs. Andrew Bird vs. Midlake
Damien Rice vs. Butch Walker
Arctic Monkeys vs. Muse
Arcade Fire vs. White Stripes (what the fu*& are they smoking? putting their top 2 draws against each other? dumb dumb dumb. and I don't even like the White Stripes)

Sunday conflicts
Yo La Tengo vs. Broken West
Lucinda Williams vs. Bloc Party
Wilco vs. My Morning Jacket vs. Patterson Hood (again - what the fu*&???)

Seriously, guys, I know that putting this type of show together is extremely hard, and it's impossible to please everyone. That said, though, no one in their right mind, with an understanding of the bands performing and the fans paying $150-ish dollars to attend, would ever pit (a) Arctic Monkeys vs. Muse [you're killing your Brit-rock contingent], (b) Arcade Fire vs. White Stripes [basically depriving half of your audience of one of the main reasons they're coming] or (c) Wilco vs. MMJ [the two best "Americana" live bands in the U.S. today].

These decisions just reek.