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Austin City Limits to Livestream LOLA YOUNG’s Season 52 Debut

Iconic television music series Austin City Limits (ACL) announces an exclusive worldwide livestream of 2026 GRAMMY Award-winning British singer-songwriter Lola Young’s Season 52 taping on Friday, October 9. The singular artist brings her fiercely honest alternative pop to the ACL stage, showcasing songs from her acclaimed albums This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway and I’m Only Fucking Myself. 

For one night only, fans around the globe can experience Lola Young’s Austin City Limits debut live from Austin, Texas. Streaming free exclusively at YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV beginning at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT, the livestream offers a rare opportunity to experience an Austin City Limits taping as it happens. ACL’s exclusive livestreams give music fans everywhere a front-row seat to the magic of one of television’s most iconic music stages. The full-set performance will be available only during the live event, offering an exclusive early look at Young’s hour-long Season 52 episode ahead of it PBS broadcast premiere early next year. Full episodes are available to stream on the PBS App, PBS.org and the Austin City Limits YouTube Channel.

25-year-old South London native Lola Young has rapidly emerged as one of contemporary alternative pop’s most compelling voices. Young broke through with the 2025 anthem “Messy,” earning two 2026 GRAMMY Award nominations, including Best New Artist, and winning Best Pop Solo Performance. She followed with five BRIT Award nominations and a Breakthrough Artist wn, securing her reputation for fiercely candid songwriting and powerhouse vovals. Her latest album, I’m Only Fucking Myself, delves into self-sabotage, addiction, relationships and the contradictions of modern life with the lacerating honesty that has become her signature. Rolling Stone hails Young as “one of pop’s most fiercely honest songwriters, transmitting messy truths with a powerhouse voice.” 

Watch Austin City Limits on PBS, stream online, or through the PBS App. Follow @acltv on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates on livestreams, future tapings and episode schedules. Fans can also explore the ACLTV YouTube Channel for exclusive songs, full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and full-length artist interviews. Learn more about Austin City Limits, its programming and its history at ACLTV.com.

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Austin City Limits to Livestream Jesse Welles Season 52 Debut

Iconic television music series Austin City Limits (ACL) announces an exclusive worldwide livestream of singer-songwriter Jesse Welles’ Season 52 taping on Thursday, October 8. The Arkansas folk-rock troubadour and four-time 2026 GRAMMY-nominee makes his ACL debut with his distinctive blend of folk, Americana and rock, showcasing highlights from a prolific run of acclaimed albums, including his latest, Masks Off.

For one night only, fans around the globe can experience Jesse Welles’ Austin City Limits debut live from Austin, Texas. Streaming free exclusively at YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV beginning at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT, the livestream offers a rare opportunity to experience an Austin City Limits taping as it happens. ACL’s exclusive livestreams give music fans everywhere a front-row seat to the magic of one of television’s most iconic music stages. The full-set performance will be available only during the live event, offering an exclusive early look at Welles’ hour-long Season 52 episode ahead of it PBS broadcast premiere early next year. Full episodes are available to stream on the PBS App, PBS.org and the Austin City Limits YouTube Channel.

When you listen to Jesse Welles, you can practically hear the veil between lie and truth being lifted. The Ozark, Arkansas, singer, songwriter and guitarist has emerged as a singular voice in folk and Americana, pairing plainspoken lyrics with rock ‘n’ roll attitude and an unflinching willingness to address the world around him. In 2024, Welles began self-filming performances beneath power lines in the Arkansas woods, capturing the naked intensity of his songwriting on a standard smartphone camera. The performances sparked a grassroots phenomenon, with viral anthems including “War Isn’t Murder,” “The Poor,” “That Can’t Be Right,” and “United Health” attracting millions of followers and nearly one billion total views and streams. 

Welles’s breakneck pace has continued: over two years, he released eight full-length albums and dozens of songs, while earning a remarkable four 2026 GRAMMY Award nominations. He was also nominated for “Artist of the Year” at the 2026 Americana Awards and received the association’s prestigious Spirit of Americana Award for Free Speech in 2025. He has collaborated with kindred spirits, including Joan Baez, Billy Strings, Mt. Joy, Margo Price and Sierra Ferrell, while his music has drawn praise from Vulture, Rolling Stone, NPR, Billboard and CBS News, which urged listeners wondering whether folk music is still relevant to “take a listen to Jesse Welles.” 

His latest album, Masks Off, continues Welles’s tradition of confronting the moment with candor, humor and hope. Produced with Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Sam Barber), the album explores themes of collective unrest, abuse of power, I.C.E. raids and technopagans, while also revealing the introspective and personal side of his songwriting. It pairs these new reflections with studio versions of fan-favorite protest songs that have become staples of his live set. A road-tested performer who logged more than 280 shows in a year, Welles continues to share truths—whether confronting the brazenness of society’s “haves” or offering more intimate reflections on life. “I’m still living where I was living, I’m still doing what I was doing, and I’m still wearing the same jeans that I was two years ago,” he says. “I’m still putting out music as fast as I can write it. I haven’t changed.”

Watch Austin City Limits on PBS, stream online, or through the PBS App. Follow @acltv on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates on livestreams, future tapings and episode schedules. Fans can also explore the ACLTV YouTube Channel for exclusive songs, full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and full-length artist interviews. Learn more about Austin City Limits, its programming and its history at ACLTV.com.

About Austin City Limits:

A monument to music, Austin City Limits offers viewers unparalleled access to iconic artists in an intimate setting, providing a platform for inspired, memorable, full-length performances. Now in its 52nd season, the groundbreaking series is taped live before a concert audience at ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin, Texas. The longest-running music series in television history, Austin City Limits has showcased legends and innovators across every genre of popular music for more than five decades and has earned countless accolades, including a Peabody Award, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame designation and the National Medal of Arts—the only television series ever to receive the honor. 

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ACL Season 52 Taping Pass Giveaway: Bleachers

*UPDATE: GIVEAWAY CLOSED* Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Bleachers on Sunday, October 11th at 8 pm at ACL Live at The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd Street, Willie Nelson Blvd). Austin City Limits Taping Giveaways are presented by AXS Events.

Bleachers bring their singular brand of emotionally charged rock to the Austin City Limits stage with highlights from their fifth studio album, everyone for ten minutes. Led by acclaimed songwriter, producer, and musician Jack Antonoff, his connection to music began as a teenager in small-town New Jersey, where he spent more than a decade playing VFW halls, anarchist bookstores, and small clubs. “We must have played 250 shows a year,” Antonoff recalls. “And it was magical. It left me with a massive love of being a touring artist.” Those years instilled in him a lifelong devotion to the live experience—one that remains at the heart of Bleachers. 

The Jersey-bred band emerged in 2014, giving Antonoff a vehicle for his own songwriting and lead vocals. Over the past decade, Bleachers have evolved from intimate club shows to headlining Madison Square Garden while cultivating one of music’s most devoted fan communities. At its heart, however, is the intimate relationship between the mighty six-strong band and their audience. Antonoff describes that connection as the “lifeblood” of Bleachers, with fans who feel less like spectators and more like part of the family. “There’s this air in the room when we play shows that these are the people that get me, because it’s true, they do,” he says. 

everyone for ten minutes moves between shimmering pop-soul, harmony-laden folk-rock and the sax-assisted New Jersey sound that has become synonymous with Bleachers. Though the album occasionally peers into darker territory, Antonoff describes it as an essentially optimistic record, reflecting his enduring belief in the power of art. “Usually I find myself pretty hopeful,” he says. “Even right now, I have a lot of hope, specifically in art.” With deeply personal songs, irresistible live energy and a fanbase bound by a shared sense of belonging, Bleachers bring their electrifying presence to their Austin City Limits debut, marking a natural meeting of one of music’s most passionate live acts with television’s most iconic live music stage.

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ACL Season 52 Taping Pass Giveaway: Lola Young

*UPDATE: Giveaway Now Closed* Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Lola Young on Friday, October 9th at 8 pm at ACL Live at The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd Street, Willie Nelson Blvd). Austin City Limits Taping Giveaways are presented by AXS Events.

Twenty-five year-old British singer-songwriter Lola Young makes her Austin City Limits debut following a meteoric run that has transformed her into one of contemporary alternative pop’s most compelling voices. With a South London accent and talent in spades, Young signaled her arrival with the 2025 breakthrough anthem “Messy,” from her acclaimed sophomore album This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway. An acerbic, whip-smart reckoning with both a toxic lover’s judgments and her own conflicting personality, “Messy” resonated with millions, particularly a generation drawn to Young’s heroically confessional lyrics and unflinching explorations of mental health and the messiness of being human. She earned two 2026 GRAMMY nominations, including Best New Artist, and took home her first GRAMMY Award for Best Pop Solo Performance.

Young’s extraordinary rise continued with five 2026 BRIT Award nominations and a Breakthrough Artist win, following her 2025 Ivor Novello Rising Star Award. Her acclaimed follow-up album, I’m Only F**king Myself, finds Young digging even deeper into the contradictions of her inner world, exploring self-sabotage, addiction, sexual liberation, toxic relationships, romantic longing, and existential despair with the lacerating honesty that has earned her a devoted global following. Mostly written and produced with longtime collaborators Manuka and SOLOMONOPHONIC, the album finds Young turning deeply private struggles into blisteringly candid songs. 

On “D£aler,” a deceptively sunny melody masks a meditation on self-destructive behavior, while throughout the album her sharp lyrical zingers and powerhouse vocals illuminate the complicated spaces between vulnerability and defiance. Rolling Stone hails Young as “one of pop’s most fiercely honest songwriters, transmitting messy truths with a powerhouse voice.” Young has built a career on saying the things others might be afraid to utter out loud. Her music is strikingly sincere, brash, funny and painfully human—a rare combination that has made her one of the genre’s most original new stars—with a voice impossible to mistake and a willingness to tell the truth, however messy, that has become her greatest strength.

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ACL Season 52 Taping Pass Giveaway: Jesse Welles

*UPDATE: Giveaway Now Closed* Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Jesse Welles on Thursday, October 8th at 8 pm at ACL Live at The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd Street, Willie Nelson Blvd). Austin City Limits Taping Giveaways are presented by AXS Events.

Winners will be chosen at random and a photo ID will be required to pick up tickets. Winners will be notified via email. Duplicate entries for a single taping will be automatically voided. Tickets are not transferable and will be voided if sold. Standing may be required. No photography, recording or cell phone use in the studio. No cameras, computers or recording devices allowed in the venue. While we do our best to accommodate all winners, we cannot guarantee admission. These passes are based on space available therefore you will be filling in spots available on the floor or balcony depending on the tickets that are available when you arrive. Read our helpful Know Before You Go guide for more information.

When you listen to Jesse Welles, you can practically hear the veil between lie and truth being lifted. The Ozark, Arkansas singer-songwriter and guitarist has emerged as a singular voice in folk and Americana, pairing plainspoken lyrics with rock ‘n’ roll attitude and an unflinching willingness to address the world around him. In 2024, Welles began self-filming performances beneath power lines in the Arkansas woods, capturing the naked intensity of his songwriting on a standard smartphone camera. The performances sparked a grassroots phenomenon, with viral anthems including “War Isn’t Murder,” “The Poor,” “That Can’t Be Right,” and “United Health” attracting millions of followers and nearly one billion total views and streams.

Welles’s breakneck pace has continued: over two years, he released eight full-length albums and dozens of songs, while earning a remarkable four 2026 GRAMMY Award nominations. He is also nominated for “Artist of the Year” at the 2026 Americana Awards and received the association’s prestigious “Spirit of Americana Award” for Free Speech in 2025. He has collaborated with kindred spirits, including Joan Baez, Billy Strings, and Sierra Ferrell, and his music has drawn praise from Vulture, Rolling Stone, NPR, Billboard, and CBS News, which urged listeners wondering whether folk music is still relevant to “take a listen to Jesse Welles.”

His latest album, Masks Off, continues Welles’s tradition of confronting the moment with candor, humor and hope. The album explores themes of collective unrest, abuse of power, I.C.E. raids, and technopagans, while also revealing the introspective and personal side of his songwriting. It pairs these new reflections with studio versions of fan-favorite protest songs that have become staples of his live set. A road-tested performer who logged more than 280 shows in a year, Welles continues to share truths—whether confronting the brazenness of society’s “haves” or offering more intimate reflections on life. “I’m still living where I was living, I’m still doing what I was doing, and I’m still wearing the same jeans that I was two years ago,” he says. “I’m still putting out music as fast as I can write it. I haven’t changed.”

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Miguel Makes A Highly Anticipated Return to the ACL Stage with Acclaimed Album CAOS

Austin City Limits (ACL) welcomes back GRAMMY Award-winning R&B trailblazer Miguel for a dynamic, emotionally charged hour featuring highlights from his acclaimed album CAOS alongside fan favorites spanning his celebrated career. The episode premieres Saturday, September 26 at 8 p.m. CT/9 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings), with full episodes available to stream at PBS.org, YouTube and the PBS App. All Season 52 episodes, including Miguel’s hour, will be available to stream free on the Austin City Limits YouTube Channel.

Miguel, who made an unforgettable ACL debut in Season 44 in 2018, returns to the series with a visually striking performance that finds the singer atop an overturned police cruiser as lights flash around him. Throughout the set, Miguel uses the stage as a platform for both personal and social commentary, spray-painting “ICE OUT” across the car and leading the crowd in a chant of “ICE out” during the searing CAOS track “Triggered.” “How could we not be mad?” he calls out to the crowd.

The Los Angeles-raised artist, born Miguel Jontel Pimentel, draws from his Black and Latino roots throughout his music and across CAOS, his fifth studio album and first new album in eight years. Rolling Stone raves, “This is an album about searching for meaning as you try your best to process a world on fire.” 

The hour unfolds as an intensely personal exploration of a world in turmoil, with Miguel moving between vulnerability, love, and the realities of fear and violence. He brings a restless creativity and emotional immediacy to the ACL stage, moving effortlessly between the atmospheric sounds of CAOS and the career-defining hits that have made him a singular voice in R&B. Set highlights include “El Pleito,” (“the fight”) a bilingual meditation on struggle that draws deeply from Miguel’s Mexican heritage. The Spanish-language song reflects on the immigrant experience and the state of the world, ultimately returning to its message of collective resilience, as Miguel soulfully sings the refrain, “We’re all that we’ve got.” “RIP,” a self-described “crash-out anthem,” finds the artist returning to the seductive R&B sound that helped establish him as one of the genre’s most adventurous voices, blending a propulsive electronic edge with vulnerable lyrics. 

Miguel is in his feelings as he closes the magnetic set with a pair of fan favorites, leading the audience in a call-and-response on the GRAMMY Award-winning smash “Adorn” before bringing  the set home with the multi-platinum “Sure Thing,” which has recently reemerged as a viral hit for a new generation. The crowd sings along on the hypnotic hook, “You could  bet that, never gotta sweat that,” carried by Miguel’s smooth falsetto.  

“Miguel’s show, and every song in it, speaks to the times in which we live,” said longtime ACL executive producer Terry Lickona. “The scope of his music takes in the world around him, but exposes the deep personal pain from within, as only Miguel can do.”

Miguel Episode Setlist:

  • “Perderme”
  • “CAOS”
  • “Do You”
  • “Coffee”
  • “New Martyrs”
  • “Triggered”
  • “El Pleito”
  • “The Thrill”
  • “Anointed”
  • “RIP”
  • “Adorn”
  • “Sure Thing”

Season 52 Broadcast Line-up (second half of season to be announced):

  • September 4 —Carlos Vives y La Provincia
  • September 12—Austin City Limits 12th Annual Hall of Fame Honors Brandi Carlile
  • September 19—Billy Strings
  • September 26—Miguel
  • October 3—Sienna Spiro
  • October 9—Olivia Rodrigo
  • October 17—Ari Lennox
  • October 24—The Red Clay Strays
  • October 31—Ty Myers
  • November 14—Sebastián Yatra
  • November 21—Austin City Limits Presents: Americana 25th Annual Honors

For press images and episode information, visit the Austin City Limits press room at ACLTV.com/press-room.

Austin City Limits is produced by Austin PBS. Since its debut in 1974, the landmark music series has showcased the world’s finest artists from its home in Austin, Texas, and remains the longest-running music television program in history. Austin City Limits has been awarded the National Medal of Arts, a Peabody Award, and a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Landmark designation.

Watch full episodes of Austin City Limits on PBS, stream online, and via the PBS App. As of Season 52, all episodes will be available to stream for free on the ACLTV YouTube Channel. Follow @acltv on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter and TikTok for updates on livestreams, future tapings and episode schedules. Fans can also explore the ACLTV YouTube Channel for exclusive songs, behind-the-scenes content, and full-length artist interviews. Learn more about Austin City Limits, its programming and its history at ACLTV.com.