It may happen only one night a year, but the reverberations last all year long. In a city where music is everything, there isn’t a local band within earshot that wouldn’t love to see their name in lights at the Austin Music Awards. The 31st annual Austin Music Awards took place at the height of SXSW 2013 […]
Lilting Urban Folk from Austin’s Award-Winning Erin Ivey
Austin singer and songwriter Erin Ivey has a lovely, lilting voice and poetry in her bones. Texas Music Magazine named Erin one of the top artists of 2011, and her newest album Dreamy Weather was funded by fans through a successful Kickstarter campaign late last year. I’ve had the chance to enjoy Erin and her music in different settings, […]
Bridget Dunlap: Gritty Imagineress Reigning Barefoot on Rainey
Visionaries are the ones who look at what’s in front of all of our faces, and have just enough careless abhorrence of common sense to imagine a metropolis where the rest of us see only a mound of dirt. Successful Houston business owner Bridget Dunlap had visited Austin many times. Despite the economic bust of […]
HONK!TX Brings Texas-Sized Ruckus to Austin’s Streets
This guest blog post is by Mikaela Thomas. As you’ve probably noticed, Austin has about as many festivals as it has Mexican Free-Tailed Bats. That tells you everything you need to know about this town: we love community, we applaud creativity, and we have an insatiable hunger for fun. In that spirit, a small troupe […]
All Dates Begin Well at Austin’s Violet Crown Cinema
This guest blog post is by Hunter Stanford. I finally had a date. Finally. It had been so long since my last one that all that remained were hazy visions of one-sided conversations and unreturned phone calls. Almost 27, I’m not getting any younger. What if this is the last date I ever get? I […]
Top 5 Survival Tips for Carnaval Austin
One of the first things I noticed upon moving to Austin is the proclivity for dress up parties. In New York, any costume you wear you have to wear on the subway, which is probably why people end up just going pantsless. Carnaval Brasileiro is a popular event that happens during the “coldest” time of year in […]
Non-Profit Black Fret Plans to Give Millions to Austin Music Industry
We love our local music. But there’s a noteworthy difference between sending out raving groupie tweets to three hundred followers about the no cover show you attended on 6th Street, and being instrumental in helping a band with legs get their first album out. If you’re addicted to your groupie tweets and free shows, read no further. […]
Holy Mountain Enters as Live Music Machine in Red River District
This guest blog post is by Hunter Stanford. Free Week in Austin has a certain vibe that’s hard to put down on paper. It’s the first week of the New Year; you’re still riding that Christmas high, still pretending resolutions might actually happen, and dang y’all! some things are free that usually aren’t. For those of you just now […]
With the Highball Closed, Does Kung Fu Saloon Measure Up?
After the holidays, I resumed my search for a replacement to the Highball. Of course, no two places are identical. But the Highball had provided me a place to eat and drink, and offered more entertainment than just watching my drunk friends fall down. Thus far on my search, I’ve visited The Goodnight and The […]
Austin City-Wide Garage Sale Draws Thousands to Palmer Events Center
Let’s face it. Most of us love a good garage sale. Unfortunately, most of them are mediocre at best, and high quality stuff is often tough to find. On top of that, you have to drive around all over town looking for the next place, only to find that some early bird beat you to […]
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