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Bill Arhos, the founder of the long-running PBS performance series Austin City Limits and the inspiration behind the Texas capital's now-annual music festival, passed away April 11th at the age of 80, the Austin City Limits site reports. A longtime executive at Austin's Klru, Arhos helped create the Austin City Limits concept in 1974. That same year, the show's debut episode, featuring a performance by Willie Nelson, aired on the public television station.

"I've never met anyone like Bill Arhos," Acl executive producer and longtime colleague Terry Lickona said in a statement.

The Black Keys are spreading the "Fever," as the legendary concert series Austin City Limits prepares to return with seven new episodes of its 40th season. In a new exclusive preview clip from the Black Keys' forthcoming episode, the Nashville-via-Akron duo kick out a taut, twisting rendition of the Turn Blue single that spirals into a crunchy concluding freakout.

Austin City Limits returns to PBS on January 3rd with a performance from the Avett Brothers and bluegrass trio Nickel Creek. Austin hometown heroes Spoon will share the stage with...

Country music icon Willie Nelson had a lot to celebrate on Saturday night in Austin, Texas, as he became one of the first-ever inductees to the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. The ceremony marked the 40th anniversary of the show and brought out recent Oscar winner and hometown favorite Matthew McConaughey, who told the crowd, "There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson." "He's been called Saint Willie," McConaughey continued. "There's a statue of him in the middle of downtown Austin on a street called Willie Nelson Boulevard. He's always been larger than life, a living legend.