Tim Kubart with Mother Falcon

The official ACL website shows a picture with about 97 people in it for this group, which the description for this show describes as Tim Kubart (the "Tambourine Guy") plus an eighteen-piece, Austin orchestral indie-born band called Mother Falcon.  Which sounds super dang weird, but the music on Spotify for Mother Falcon is actually kind of fantastic.

Before I get to that, I'll note that this looks to be something playing the Kiddie Limits stage, because Tim Kubart is apparently the host of a preschooler show on Sprout (a cable TV station) called the Sunny Side Up Show.  His website includes other accolades and makes him sound pretty awesome.  I assume that this song is him, which is a cute little tune about being together with your happy family.

From the Internet, it looks like Kubart usually plays with a group called the Space Cadets. He was also on American's Got Talent, and a part of a Motown Tribute to Nickelback, which sounds godawful.  If anything like prior years of the Kiddie Limits stage, he'll be singing alphabet songs and making the kids happy while their parents get FOMO about missing other music at the main stages.  However, this time, I might just think about going and seeing this so that I can hear Mother Falcon.

First of all, they have an entire album of re-imagining Radiohead's OK Computer.  They use their big pile of instruments to layer in a bunch of orchestral sounds where the bleeps and bloops of the original would have been, and it actually turns out pretty cool.  Here is "Paranoid Android"

Neat, right?  I think I would have chosen The Bends album, but that is just personal preference, and this is cool either way.  And then they have a few other albums of their own material (2010's Still Life, 2011's Alhambra, and 2013's You Knew).  That most recent original disc has a complicated layering of instruments and voices that makes me immediately think of Arcade Fire.  Their top song off of that album is a track called "Marigold," which has almost 1.3 million spins on Spotify:

Video of little kids dominating alien monster things all over Austin is kind of funny too.  In addition, NPR did one of their Tiny Desk concerts with this pack of folks.  Take 12 minutes and jam it out, I think you'll find it worth your time:

14 people don't really fit at a "Tiny Desk," but I dig what they have going on anyway.  That last song is especially good, called "Dirty Summer," but I also really like the middle song, named after the west Texas town of Marfa.  "Blue and Gold" also sounds great from their 2013 album.

I honestly never expected to like something that would be playing at the Kiddie Limits stage, but I truly feel like this group should get a slot at the real deal stage (and maybe they will) because I think this music is really great.  Fun find on the bottom of the whole poster.