Predicting ACL 2019: Scorecard

IT'S HERE!  Guns n' freaking Roses!  Holy crap!  I'm so pumped, just please don't let Axl have another freakout and cancel or something!

But, let's go back and take a look at how I did on predictions:

Hard Lock Groups I Feel Confident About:

• Childish Gambino.  Yep
• Kacey Musgraves.  Yeee-haw!
• Cardi B.  Okkkuuuurrrr.
• Tame Impala.  Righteous.
• The Raconteurs.  Hell yes.
• Billie Eilish.  Like a spider crawling out of a teenager's mouth.
• Gary Clark Jr.  For sure.
• Wilco.  NOPE.  KUTX just love them some Wilco, man.
• Lizzo.  Dude.  YES!
• Courtney Barnett.  NOOOOOOOO.  Sadness.
• Tierra Whack.  Truth.
• Dean Lewis. Nope - thanks alot ACL!
• Lauren Daigle.  Yessir.
• Judah and the Lion.  Uh huh.
• Sigrid.  Word up!
• Devon Gilfillian. Negative Ghostrider.  Pattern is full.
• Haelos.  Nope, I'm an idiot (and/or the recent radio uptick means jack shit).
• Ryan Bingham.  NOPE

Puts me at 12 right, 6 wrong.  66% seems pretty solid.  I'll take it.

Medium Level Fire:

• The Strokes.  NO, HOORAY!
• Post Malone.  NO, and and EVEN BIGGER HOORAY!!!!
• Swedish House Mafia.  Nope - the EDM kiddies are having a bad year (which, hooray!)
• Sheck Wes.  Damn, nope.

That's an impressive zero for four!  Batting Chris Davis percent there!  But hey, look, I didn't move them up into the lock category!

I Have No Clue (These are the bands I looked at and have no good reason to say either yes or no, but I can't count them out):

• Flume.  Nope.
• The Cure.  Holy shit, yes?  I mean, let's get weird with some old Cure shit!  Figured this wouldn't happen, but kept the possibility alive.
• KISS.  Nope.
• Queen & Adam Lambert.  Nope.
• Madonna.  Le sigh... Nope.
• Mumford & Sons.  Huh, well, welcome back to the folky rockers!

Nope Groups (These Bands are otherwise occupied or I otherwise say no for sure):

• Dead & Co. Correct.
• Muse.  Correct.
• Fleetwood Mac.  Correct.
• Foo Fighters.  Correct.
• Mitski.  Correct.
• Soccer Mommy.  Correct.
• Jade Bird.  Correct.

I mean, not perfect by any means, but 66% of the ones I put on lock is pretty solid!  And other than Robyn and Guns n Roses, I at least semi-sorta guessed all of the top twelve!  Ten of twelve from the top two lines?  (sure, I couldn't say yeah or nah on Mumford or Cure, but whatever, no one can even remember that, bro).

Excited about this lineup.  Already really liking some of the bands I'm hearing - Sam Fender is very good.