Build Your Own Austin City Limits 2026 Hitster Pack with Hitify

Every October, over 75,000 music fans fill Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival 2026. Taking place across two weekends in early October, ACL is unlike any other festival: it blends rock, indie, pop, hip-hop, country, and electronic music on eight stages, creating a lineup that genuinely has something for every music lover.

With ACL 2026 just weeks away, there's no better time to celebrate the music that makes this festival special. With Hitify, you can identify all the iconic songs from ACL's history and build your own custom Hitster pack for an unforgettable music game night.

What is Austin City Limits?

Austin City Limits has deep roots. The ACL TV show, which launched in 1976, is the longest-running music program in American TV history. The festival grew out of that legacy and has been held in Zilker Park since 2002. Today it's one of the most beloved festivals in North America, known for its laid-back Texas vibe, world-class lineups, and incredible diversity of genres.

Past ACL headliners read like a who's who of music history: Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, The Killers, Billie Eilish, Post Malone, Kendrick Lamar, and dozens more. That range is what makes ACL so perfect for Hitster: you can cover five decades of music in a single pack.

What is Hitster?

Hitster is the card game where you guess the release year of songs. Each card has a QR code that plays the actual track. You listen, then place the card in the correct chronological position on your personal timeline. The closer you are to the right year, the more points you score.

With Hitify, you can scan any song playing around you and instantly identify it, discover its release year, and add it to your custom Hitster pack. That makes Hitify the perfect tool to build an ACL-themed pack full of songs your whole group will recognize.

Your ACL 2026 Hitster Pack: 12 Essential Tracks

The magic of an ACL Hitster pack is the incredible range of decades and genres you can cover. Here are 12 essential tracks to include:

• "Come As You Are" - Nirvana (1991) - grunge classic that never leaves festival setlists
• "On the Road Again" - Willie Nelson (1980) - the ultimate Texas anthem, a must for any ACL pack
• "Creep" - Radiohead (1992) - one of Radiohead's most legendary festival moments happened at ACL
• "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes (2003) - perhaps the most recognizable guitar riff of the 2000s
• "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers (2003) - a festival sing-along anthem that has never gone out of style
• "Dog Days Are Over" - Florence and the Machine (2009) - euphoric indie-pop that sounds incredible outdoors
• "Use Somebody" - Kings of Leon (2008) - one of rock's biggest festival anthems of the last 20 years
• "Ho Hey" - The Lumineers (2012) - the folk-rock crowd favorite that launched a thousand sing-alongs
• "Royals" - Lorde (2013) - the breakthrough that turned a teenage New Zealander into a global star
• "HUMBLE." - Kendrick Lamar (2017) - a hip-hop landmark that electrifies every festival crowd
• "Bad Guy" - Billie Eilish (2019) - the song that introduced a generation to a genre-defying icon
• "Levitating" - Dua Lipa (2020) - pure pop perfection, impossible not to dance to

With these 12 tracks spanning from 1980 to 2020, your ACL Hitster pack covers four decades and six different genres. That's a serious guessing challenge for any music fan.

How to Build Your Pack with Hitify

Open Hitify and start scanning songs. Play any of these tracks from Spotify or YouTube, hold your phone up, and Hitify identifies the song and release year instantly. Build your card list, print your custom cards, and you're ready to play.

Want to go deeper? Use Hitify to explore the full discography of each ACL artist. You might discover an older deep cut that surprises everyone at the table.

Head to hitify.app to start building your Austin City Limits Hitster pack today.