Rocking Out -- in the Live Music Capital of the World

Theme Day! I thought that this photo is a good depiction of Austin and its place in the rock universe. An Austin City Limits T-shirt next to a Pink Floyd one with a Bob Marley painting in the background. All surrounded by fashionable clothes and knick-knacks. The name of this store? Austin Rocks. Click here to see how other City Daily Photo participants from around the world interpret this theme.

Towers of power

It's Austin City Limits concert time again. That means more towers for cell phones in Zilker Park are needed. Here are two being erected. 

The star-making machinery behind the popular songs

I was walking the Hike and Bike Trail and saw this huge gaggle of cherry pickers behind the stages at the Austin City Limits Festival not long ago. When you have several stages and about 50,000 people in the audiences, it takes a lot of preparation and some heavy-duty contraptions like these.