Hulu’s Austin City Limits 2023 Live Stream Schedule: Check Live Sets From Foos, Hozier, Alanis, Suki Waterhouse, And More

This weekend, Austin City Limits premieres its 49th season on PBS. And while it’s one of the longest running music series on American television, not to mention one of the classiest, since 2002 ACL has also hosted a three-day live music festival in Zilker Park, the 350-acre public site at the confluence of two waterways on the southern tip of the Texas capital. In a setup similar to Lollapalooza – both events are stood up and operated by the same production company – Austin City Limits Music Festival features over 100 acts performing across eight stages and running the total genre gamut, everything from rock, hip-hop, and electronic music to country, bluegrass, and basically everything in between. 

And here’s the best part. Just as ACL has been pumping music into people’s living rooms since 1976, Hulu has stepped up to stream sets live from Austin City Limits Fest 2023 – loud, proud, uncut, and completely free to subscribers all weekend long. Because while going to a fest is cool and all, so is going to your kitchen for a fun little snack. Which makes us ask: why not both? It’s easy to check out the complete ACL 2023 schedule, but read on for Decider’s picks to stream from ACL Fest and the “Live Music Capital of the World.” All set times Eastern.

1. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6: LITTLE SIMS and THE LUMINEERS

   Little Simz (Channel 2, 8:20 EST)

   British-Nigerian MC Little Simz took the greater world by storm in 2021 with Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, the artist’s Brit Award-nominated and Mercury Prize-winning fourth album. Wholly cinematic but crushingly intimate at the very same time, the record was an instant hip-hop classic. But it’s also only one facet: real ones know that the multitalented Simbi “Little Simz” Ajikawo also played Shelley in the absolutely riveting British crime drama Top Boy.   

   The Lumineers (Channel 1, 10:30 EST)

   Lumineers founders Wesley Shultz and Jeremiah Fraites have watched their last two records debut in the top tier of the Billboard 200, marking a meteoric, harmonizing, foot-stomping, folky, poppy and jangle-rocky rise through the ranks to become one of the heaviest hitters in contemporary Americana music. And by all accounts – including their band’s Instagram account – they put on a pretty energetic live show, too.

2. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7: ALANIS MORISSETTE and FOO FIGHTERS

   Alanis Morissette (Channel 2, 10:10 EST)

   It’s not like Alanis Morissette ever left, but when your era-defining 1995 album is transformed into the Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, and it subsequently pulls down multiple Tonys, that’s a pretty solid way to say “Yeah, I’m thinkin’ I’m back.” Morissette also put out Such Pretty Forks in the Road in 2022, featuring a new song from the musical entitled “Smiling,” and if you’re wondering what else she’ll perform at ACL, “You Oughta Know” she’s been out on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill.

   Foo Fighters (Channel 1, 10:20 EST)

   Dave Grohl and the Foos have been touring and playing fests for months in support of their newest record, their 11th, entitled But Here We Are. But the veteran rockers have also been touring as an emotional support group for themselves and their fans, in the wake of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins’ untimely death in March 2022. The hits are here – “All My Life,” “My Hero,” “Best of You.” But so is “Aurora” as a tribute to Hawkins, fun bits and pieces of cover songs, and a very loud and very public introduction for new Foo sticks man Josh Freese. Catharsis, man. Plug it in and scream.

3. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8: SUKI WATERHOUSE and HOZIER

   Suki Waterhouse (Channel 1, 6:20 EST)

   Suki Waterhouse doesn’t just play a rocker on the TV. While she co-starred as Karen Sirko, the 1970s’ hippest keys player, in Daisy Jones & The Six, Waterhouse is also a singer and songwriter in real life, and she put out I Can’t Let Go, her well-received Sub Pop debut, back in 2022. It features a little bit of dusky Fiona Apple here, some Lana Del Rey LA mysticism there, and generally flirts with a detached sense of catchy cool. And who knows, maybe her partner Robert Pattison will appear in the wings at ACL.     

   Hozier (Channel 1, 8:30 EST)

   In 2013, “Take Me to Church” offered listeners communion on a global scale. But that hit single was only the first sermon Hozier would deliver for us, as the Irish singer, songwriter, and musician has continued to preach with a rich tapestry of sound that draws ably from stirring soul, blues melancholy, and righteous folk melody. He’d probably even be a great addition to your book club: Unreal Unearth, Hozier’s newest full-length, channels Dante’s Inferno for its thematic inspiration.

Johnny Loftus (@glennganges) is an independent writer and editor living at large in Chicagoland. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, All Music Guide, Pitchfork Media, and Nicki Swift.