You can go here to see in what categories all these artists are nominated, as well as all the other nominees.
You can catch some of these fine folks in action in the coming weeks – Nickel Creek appears on January 3, Sam Smith on January 17, Ryan Adams on January 24 and The Black Keys on January 31.
And don’t forget – our own executive producer Terry Lickona is also co-producer of the Grammy telecast, as well as the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy, the Grammys’ parent organization. The Grammy Awards broadcast on February 8th – Good luck to Terry and all the nominees!
If you want to see some of these fine folks in action, ACL’s got ’em when our new episodes return in January. Queens of the Stone Age kick off the second half of Season 39 in the New Year, making their ACL debut on January 4, Neko Case returns on January 11, Sarah Jarosz and The Milk Carton Kids appear on February 1, Kacey Musgraves makes her ACL debut on February 8 and Mavis Staples encores on March 29.
And don’t forget – our own executive producer Terry Lickona is also co-producer of the Grammy telecast, as well as the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy, the Grammys’ parent organization. The Grammy Awards broadcast on January 26th – Good luck to Terry and all the nominees!
The 2025 GRAMMY OFFICIAL nominations have been announced, and Austin City Limits congratulates all the amazing nominees populating 94 categories.
We’d like to give special recognition to the nominees who have appeared on ACL. Big congratulations to Billie Eilish (ACL Alum, Season 45) a top contender with seven nominations. The global pop sensation earned nods for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Duo/ Group Performance, and Best Dance Pop Recording.
Also awarded with seven nominations, Kendrick Lamar (ACL Alum, Season 41) is up for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Kendrick Lamar performs on ACL Season 41. Photo by Scott Newton.
We’re thrilled to be showcasing many of this year’s nominees during our current Season 50. Stay tuned for new episodes premiering weekly on PBS. Congratulations to Chris Stapleton (Best Country Solo Performance & Best Country Album), Jelly Roll (Best Country Solo Performance & Best Country Song), Gracie Abrams (Best Pop Duo/Group Performance), Kacey Musgraves (Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song, Best Country Album, Best Americana Performance, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical), Jacob Collier (Best Global Music Performance, Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella, Album Of The Year), Norah Jones (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album), Carín León (Best Música Mexicana Album), and Brittany Howard (Best Alternative Music Album). All these amazing artists are featured on ACL’s golden anniversary Season 50. Visit pbs.org/austincitylimits or the PBS app to watch new episodes.
Jelly Roll on Austin City Limits, Season 50. Photo by Scott Newton.
A special shoutout to other ACL alumni who earned nominations: The Black Keys (Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song), Cimafunk (Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album), Khruangbin (Best New Artist), Billy Strings (Best Bluegrass Album), St. Vincent (Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, Best Alternative Music Performance, Best Alternative Music Album), Charley Crockett (Best Americana Album), Jack White (Best Rock Album), and Pearl Jam (Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song).
A full list of all GRAMMY nominees can be found here – good luck to all. Co-produced by ACL executive producer, Terry Lickona, the 2025 Annual Grammy Awards will telecast on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.
ACL ALUMNI NOMINEES:
Record Of The Year:
“BIRDS OF A FEATHER”– Billie Eilish
“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar
Album Of The year:
Djesse Vol. 4 – Jacob Collier
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT – Billie Eilish
Song Of The Year:
“BIRDS OF A FEATHER”– Billie Eilish
“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar
Best New Artist:
Khruangbin
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical:
Ian Fitchuk
Deeper Well (Kacey Musgraves) (Album)
Don’t Forget Me (Maggie Rogers) (Album)
“Peaceful Place” (Leon Bridges) (Single)
“Redemption Song (Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film)” (Leon Bridges) (Single)
“Three Little Birds (Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film)” (Kacey Musgraves) (Single)
Mustard
“Not Like Us” (Kendrick Lamar) (Single)
Daniel Nigro
“Can’t Catch Me Now (From The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes)” (Olivia Rodrigo) (Single)
“girl i’ve always been” (Olivia Rodrigo) (Track)
“so american” (Olivia Rodrigo) (Track)
“stranger” (Olivia Rodrigo) (Track)
Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical:
Amy Allen
“Chrome Cowgirl” (Leon Bridges) (Single)
“scared of my guitar” (Olivia Rodrigo) (Track)
Edgar Barrera
“It Was Always You (Siempre Fuiste Tú)” (Carin León & Leon Bridges) (Single)
“The One (Pero No Como Yo)” (Carin León & Kane Brown) (Single)
“Sincere” (Khalid) (Track)
Jessie Jo Dillon
“MESSED UP AS ME” (Keith Urban) (Single)
Best Pop Solo Performance:
“BIRDS OF A FEATHER” — Billie Eilish
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
“us.” — Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift
Best Pop Vocal Album:
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT — Billie Eilish
Best Dance Pop Recording:
“L’AMOUR DE MA VIE [OVER NOW EXTENDED EDIT]” — Billie Eilish
Best Rock Performance:
“Beautiful People (Stay High)” — The Black Keys
“Dark Matter” — Pearl Jam
“Broken Man” — St. Vincent
Best Rock Song:
“Beautiful People (Stay High)” — Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)
“I Am Not Okay” — Casey Brown, Jason DeFord, Ashley Gorley & Taylor Phillips, songwriters (Jelly Roll)
Best Country Album:
Deeper Well — Kacey Musgraves
Higher — Chris Stapleton
Best American Roots Performance:
Nothing In Rambling” — The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood
Best Americana Performance:
“Don’t Do Me Good” — Madi Diaz Featuring Kacey Musgraves
“Runaway Train” — Sarah Jarosz
“Empty Trainload Of Sky” — Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Best Americana Album:
$10 Cowboy — Charley
Polaroid Lovers — Sarah Jarosz
Best Bluegrass Album:
Live Vol. 1 — Billy Strings
Best Contemporary Blues:
Mileage — Ruthie Foster
Best Folk Album:
Woodland — Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Best Música Urbana Album:
LAS LETRAS YA NO IMPORTAN — Residente
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album:
Pa’ Tu Cuerpa — Cimafunk
Best Música Mexicana Album:
Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 — Carín León
Best Global Music Performance:
“A Rock Somewhere” — Jacob Collier Featuring Anoushka Shankar & Varijashree Venugopal
Best Children’s Music Album:
My Favorite Dream — John Legend
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording:
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones — Dolly Parton
Best Song Written for Media Visuals:
Can’t Catch Me Now [From “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”] — Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters
It Never Went Away [From “American Symphony”] — Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters
Best music Video:
“Not Like Us” — Kendrick Lamar
Best Music Film:
“American Symphony” — Jon Batiste
Matthew Heineman, video director; Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman & Joedan Okun, video producers
“June” — (June Carter Cash)
Kristen Vaurio, video director; Josh Matas, Sarah Olson, Jason Owen, Mary Robertson & Kristen Vaurio, video producer
Best Recording Package:
The Avett Brothers — Jonny Black & Giorgia Sage, art directors
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:
Deeper Well — Craig Alvin, Shawn Everett, Mai Leisz, Todd Lombardo, John Rooney, Konrad Snyder & Daniel Tashian, engineers; Greg Calbi, mastering engineer (Kacey Musgraves)
Best Immersive Audio Album:
Genius Loves Company — Michael Romanowski, Eric Schilling & Herbert Waltl, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; John Burk, immersive producer (Ray Charles With Various Artists)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella:
Bridge Over Troubled Water” — Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly & John Legend, arrangers (Jacob Collier Featuring John Legend & Tori Kelly)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals:
“Always Come Back” — Matt Jones, arranger (John Legend)
We’ve got great news for iPad toting ACL fans! Fresh new content is ready for viewing on our app, ACL Archive. Wilco, Alejandro Escovedo, Trombone Shorty, and John Legend & The Roots join an already impressive list of artists and episodes currently available. Each month, awesome new content including HD-quality videos, photos, interviews, and never-before-seen footage, becomes available to app subscribers, making ACL Archive a must-have for any music lover.
Wilco with Japanese Breakfast at the ACL Hall of Fame ceremony, Sept. 2021. Photo courtesy Austin City Limits.
Live music beaconAustin City Limits announces the second half of Season 47, with five new episodes to begin airing in January 2022 as part of the program’s thirteen-episode season. ACL returns with a stellar slate of new broadcast episodes, showcasing iconic performances featuring legends and highly-anticipated debuts from some of today’s most talked-about live acts. The program returns on Saturday, January 8 at 8pm CT/9pm ET with a special broadcast, Austin City Limits 7th Annual Hall of Fame Honors. Despite the challenges facing live music during the past year, ACL is proud to deliver a full season of performances for viewers, all recorded at ACL’s studio home in Austin, Texas in 2021, in front of limited live audiences. The Peabody Award-winning program continues its extraordinary run as the longest-running music television show in history, providing viewers a front-row seat to the best in live performance for a remarkable 47 years. ACL airs weekly on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings) and full episodes are made available to stream online at pbs.org/austincitylimits following the initial broadcast.
A special installment, Austin City Limits 7th Annual Hall of Fame Honors, premieres January 8 at 8pm CT/9pm ET. Austin City Limits celebrates the newest class of Hall of Fame Inductees, honoring a trio of Americana greats: Lucinda Williams, Wilco and Alejandro Escovedo, with best-in-class performances and collaborations from the 2021 ACL Hall of Fame induction ceremony, recorded live in Austin, Texas on October 28, 2021. Music greats Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price, Sheila E., Lenny Kaye, Terry Allen,Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner and more salute the newest class of inductees with one-of-a-kind collaborative performances and tributes.
Season 47 returns in January with a line-up showcasing multiple 2022 Grammy nominees, including seven-time nominee, multi-platinum Olivia Rodrigo; the chart-topper shares the hour with a fellow LA act making her ACL debut, indie-rock original Phoebe Bridgers in a captivating double-bill showcasing two of today’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters. (The installment had an initial airing in December 2021 as a mid-season bonus for fans). Grammy-winning art-rock icon St. Vincent, nominated for a 2022 Grammy, makes her third appearance on the ACL stage, in an electrifying performance, sharing an hour with breakthrough singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun in a must-see ACL debut. A Season 47 highlight is the first-ever appearance by international superstars Duran Duran in an epic hour-long installment, performing a hit-filled set along with new gems. ACL spotlights a Texas legend enjoying a late-career high-point, iconoclastic sculptor-songwriter Terry Allen, in a must-see hour, joined by his longtime Panhandle Mystery Band featuring all-stars Lloyd Maines, Charlie Sexton, Shannon McNally and more. ACL salutes one of songwriting’s finest talents and closes out the season with a tribute to a Texas icon we lost during 2021, Nanci Griffith. The Best of Nanci Griffith features historic highlights from the influential songwriter’s seven appearances on the ACL stage. The hour-long installment offers a fascinating look at the late ACL legend’s evolution dating back to her debut on the series in 1985 through her multiple appearances on the ACL stage.
Duran Duran on ACL, 2021. Photo by Scott Newton.
“ACL kicks off the new year with a mix that celebrates the past, present and future,” says ACL executive producer Terry Lickona. “As always, we love to celebrate the great music of the past while showcasing the most exciting and inspiring new music of today. ACL continues to bring out the best in artists across genres and generations!”
Season 47 Broadcast Schedule (Second Half):
January 8Austin City Limits 7th Annual Hall of Fame Honors
January 15St. Vincent | Joy Oladokun
January 23Duran Duran
January 29Terry Allen
February 5Olivia Rodrigo | Phoebe Bridgers
February 12The Best of Nanci Griffith
ACL’s Season 47 premiered on October 2021 with standout performances featuring many 2022 Grammy nominees, including New Orleans musician/bandleader Jon Batiste, country superstar Miranda Lambert, bluegrass star Billy Strings, legendary Jackson Browne, R&B singer-songwriter Leon Bridges, country standout Brandy Clark and Americana singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz alongside acclaimed performances from eclectic groove trio Khruangbin, celebrated singer Brittany Howard, UK singer-songwriter Jade Bird, “Gulf & Western” country sensation Charley Crockett and more. The series will continue to broadcast fan-favorite encore episodes through the end of 2021.
Tune-in, log on, and let ACL be a trusted sidekick for entertainment during these challenging days. Viewers can visit acltv.com for news regarding live streams, future tapings and episode schedules or by following ACL on Facebook, Twitter, IG and TikTok.Fans can also browse the ACL YouTube channel for exclusive songs, behind-the-scenes videos and full-length artist interviews.
About Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits (ACL) offers viewers unparalleled access to featured acts in an intimate setting that provides a platform for artists to deliver inspired, memorable, full-length performances. Now in its 46th Season, the program is taped live before a concert audience from The Moody Theater in downtown Austin. Austin City Limits is the longest-running music series in television history and remains the only TV series to ever be awarded the National Medal of Arts. Since its inception, the groundbreaking music series has become an institution that’s helped secure Austin’s reputation as the Live Music Capital of the World. The historic KLRU Studio 6A, home to 36 years of ACL concerts, has been designated an official Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Landmark. In 2011, ACL moved to the new venue ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin. ACL received a rare institutional Peabody Award for excellence and outstanding achievement in 2012.Austin City Limitsis produced by Austin PBS, KLRU-TV and funding is provided in part by Dell Technologies, RigUp, the Austin Convention Center Department and Cirrus Logic. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of Austin City Limits. Learn more about Austin City Limits, programming and history at acltv.com.
The iconic television music series Austin City Limits announces the second half of Season 43, with seven all-new shows to begin airing January 6 as part of the program’s fourteen-episode season. The stellar slate of broadcast episodes features highly-anticipated debuts from today’s most talked-about live acts, continuing Austin City Limits’ run as the longest-running music television show in history, providing viewers a front-row seat to the best in live performance for over 40 years.
The season returns in January with many recent Grammy-nominees, all new to the ACL stage, including indie-rock provocateur Father John Misty, powerhouse rap duo Run the Jewels, dance-rock band LCD Soundsystem and country phenom Chris Stapleton. Father John Misty delivers an epic performance backed by a 16-piece orchestra; Run the Jewels ignite the ACL stage in a rapid-fire, riveting showcase; LCD Soundsystem perform a career-spanning set for the ages; and country superstar Chris Stapleton, the reigning CMA Awards Male Vocalist of the Year, makes a stunning ACL debut, joined by his wife, singer Morgane Stapleton. Husband and wife team Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires unite for a special double-bill as Americana star Isbell returns to the ACL stage to share an episode with his partner and creative collaborator Amanda Shires, making her ACL debut. A season highlight is the first-ever appearance of jazz trailblazer Herbie Hancock in a thrilling hour of classics and new songs. Black Keys superstar and ACL veteran Dan Auerbach makes his solo debut showcasing new music from his first solo release in 8 years. The extended line-up features breakout red-dirt country band Turnpike Troubadours and Austin favorites Shinyribs in first-time ACL appearances, as well as the return of a standout, acclaimed Austin psych-rockers The Black Angels.
“As always, expect the unexpected as we deliver something for everybody – from psych-rock to Americana, modern jazz to hip hop and electronica,” says longtime ACL executive producer Terry Lickona. “This is one of the most exciting collection of shows we’ve ever presented.”
Go behind the scenes with ACL Backstage, a new 10-part virtual reality video series, offering viewers immersive only-in-VR moments straight from the current season. The series premiered in November on the ACLTV YouTube Channel and continues to debut new installments to coincide with the Season 43 line-up, including Father John Misty, Run the Jewels, Dan Auerbach and Shinyribs. ACL Backstage offers viewers a chance to hang backstage with favorite artists and join them onstage with closer-than-front-row seats. The series was developed with Google’s Daydream team and in partnership with SubVRsive Media.
“In a season when we’re celebrating a significant milestone of longevity, I think it’s great that we’re staying on the cutting edge of technology and bringing ACL fans new and exciting ways to experience live music,” says ACL GM Tom Gimbel.
Season 43 | 2018 Broadcast Schedule
January 6Father John Misty | The Black Angels
January 13Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Amanda Shires
January 20Herbie Hancock
January 27 Run the Jewels
February 3LCD Soundsystem
February 10 Dan Auerbach | Shinyribs
February 17Chris Stapleton | Turnpike Troubadours
ACL’s Season 43 premiered in October with unforgettable performances from Ed Sheeran, Miranda Lambert, Angel Olsen, The Pretenders, Zac Brown Band, Norah Jones, Benjamin Booker, The Head and the Heart and more. The award-winning series will continue to broadcast fan-favorite encore episodes through the end of 2017. In what has become an ACL holiday tradition, the program will encore Tom Waits legendary December 1978 performance, one of the most requested episodes in ACL’s 40+ year archive. Tune-in on December 23rd to see this classic Christmas episode.
A special broadcast of Austin City Limits Hall of Fame New Year’sEve airs Sunday, December 31 at 10pm CT/11pm ET. Austin City Limits rings in the new year with the star-studded celebration, hosted by Chris Isaak, featuring one-of-a-kind performances and collaborations from the 2017 ACL Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. Performers include ACL royalty Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Ry Cooder, Chris Isaak, Brandi Carlile, Raul Malo, Trombone Shorty, Dr. John and more.
