The inaugural Maverick Music Festival at La Villita brought excitement and hope that concerts here would be different from now on. That our music festivals would cease to suck, and that maybe Gary Clark Jr. as a headliner would snowball into something that — maybe not rivals Austin — but at least holds some semblance to the reputable music scene up north.

Clark, after all, is from Austin. And when he came here (twice last year), he was a true rising star — a young Texas bluesman who had been playing all the top music festivals in the world. We heard him, on two occasions, while he was hot.

The 2014 lineup doesn’t top the one from 2013  which included Girl in a Coma and The Toadies  but it is bigger, at least. Here are the bands:

• March 21: Phantogram, Washed Out, The Joy Formidable, Roky Erickson, SZA, and Tamaryn

• March 22: The Psychedelic Furs, Twin Shadow, Run the Jewels, Candlebox (above), The Black Angels, YACHT, The Gories, Tamaryn, PInATA PROTEST, and Lonely Horse

Single day passes $49, VIP passes $69 at maverickmusicfestival.com.

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