SXSW preview: Seven Day Parties to put on your must see list
What’s South By Southwest without daytime shenanigans? For every year’s SXSW installment, different activations pop up all over the city
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Music news: Red River Cultural District needs our help. Here’s how you can defend your favorite music venues
Austin’s downtown Red River Cultural District (RRCD) is pushing for immediate aid to support growth and sustainability in its operations and events. RRCD is asking residents of Austin to assist in financial supplementation for the local entertainment district by contacting their city council representatives to support the initiative to provide funding relief for the organization.
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Live music preview: Free Week presented by RRCD takes place first weekend of January
For the first weekend of each year (January 5=6) , Austin non-profit, Red River Cultural District (RRCD) celebrates the new year by inviting music fans to a free, no-strings-attached series of shows from local bands and touring acts as a part of Austin’s annual Free Week. With each consecutive year of door cover-free performances, a wide array of local talent takes the reins to deliver a weekend full of fun and musical discovery. With Austin mainstays like Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, Billy Glitter, and Redbud being invited for the parties, Free Week is Austin’s destination to dip into a little bit of everything as the local talent prepares for yet another year in the vibrant Austin music scene. Here are some acts music fans should catch over the first weekend in January. All for free in the Red River Cultural District in the downtown Austin area.
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Live music review: LEVITATION presented Ty Segall, Shannon and the Clams, Rose City Band at Stubb’s Thursday
Thursday’s opening night of LEVITATION at Stubb’s BBQ was nothing short of magical with standout performances by Ty Segal and
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Live music preview: Six must see acts Thursday and Friday at LEVITATION Festival 2023
Thursday, Austin’s most beloved music festival as far as the hipster crowd is concerned reconvenes in venues across the Red River Cultural District downtown along with this year’s venue additions, Far Out Lounge in South Austin and electronic music haven, Concourse Project. There are a ton of great performances slated so we’re going to distill it down to a select few shows that are considered must see acts at LEVITATION 2023. Our colleagues Case Cockrell and Brian Hillsman will weigh in with some other sets you should check out this week at the festival soon.
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Live music review: finding hope with Weyes Blood at Stubb’s
As the sold-out crowd at Stubb’s BBQ performed the standard between set activities, beverages, restroom breaks, locating friends in the crowd, etc. in preparation for the highly anticipated headline act of the evening, Weyes Blood, a familiar and widely underestimated beauty of a tune piped in over the PA.
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Live music review: Night one of Free Week 2023 featured Et Ceteras, Semihelix and Die Spitz
hursday evening’s relatively balmy weather, a full slate of great music and a full-fledged PR and spnsorship push from the Red River Cultural District team translated to full rooms, elated fans and even happier local musicians. Night one featured Et Ceteras and Semihelix at 13th Floor while Die Spitz played to a capacity crowd inside Stubb’s down the street.
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Live music review: LEVITATION Night Three – King Gizzard headlined mesmerizing Aussie invasion
Night Three of LEVITATION at Stubb’s (the second of consecutive nights headlined by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard) also marked the second sold-out show in as many nights for the band at the historic Red River venue, Stubb’s BBQ last Saturday.
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LEVITATION night one at Stubbs with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Protomartyr
Clouds rolled in not too long after doors opened at Stubb’s on Thursday, October 27 for the opening night of LEVITATION 2022. The smell of bar-b-que flooded the air as fans began filing in to see Automatic, Protomartyr, and the night’s headlining act, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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Live music review: The Marías seduce Stubbs’ sold-out crowd at ACL Fest Late Night show
I saw The María’s back in 2019 at Washington, DC’s Union Stage, a smaller, 700-person space. Given the ferocious sold-out crowd at Austin’s Stubb’s October 14.
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Live music review: Japanese Breakfast and Dehd sold-out ACL Festival Late Night show
Last Saturday, indie-pop act Japanese Breakfast played a sold-out Stubb’s BBQ with Dehd, a rising three-piece indie-rock outfit from Chicago. The performance was an official Austin City Limits Music Festival Late Night show.
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