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Music & Entertainment
Study: Red River music venues face ‘11th hour’ endangerment
A key piece of Austin’s live music scene is at a crisis point and at risk of disappearing in the coming years if dramatic action isn’t taken soon. Those are the findings included in a nearly complete report by the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 21, 2017
Music omnibus advances as venues await agent of change, licensing moves
The city is touring its early progress in enacting pieces of the Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus, a slate of actions designed to protect Austin creatives and venues from further eroding under development pressure. Presentations to the city’s Arts and…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 17, 2017
Creative community supporters pushing live/work CodeNEXT additions
Austin creatives are stepping up their push to amend future drafts of CodeNEXT so that the city’s future building and development road map makes specific allowances for music and artistic spaces. Dave Sullivan, a member of the CodeNEXT advisory group…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 6, 2017
As rents push artists out, city seeks alternative space in houses of worship
In recent years, Austin’s creative community has been feeling the brunt of the city’s affordability crisis. As rents continue to rise, many artists have moved away, and studios and galleries have closed their doors. Now, the city is looking to…
Music & Entertainment • By Syeda Hasan • Mar 6, 2017
SXSWTF? Dissecting a music festival's immigration PR meltdown
In today’s installment of “A Good Rumor Travels Around the World Before the Truth Can Put On Its Shoes,” we watch with fascination as music fans from all over the world make South by Southwest out to be the newest…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 2, 2017
Seeking $100M, springs supporters target convention center expansion proposal
Fine arts and natural resources advocates are stepping up their involvement with a city task force that will play a large role in shaping how the city allocates the fast-growing pool of revenue from Hotel Occupancy Tax, which totaled about…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 22, 2017
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Austin Monitor Radio: Austin Arts in 2017
Freelance writer Renuka Rayasam joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her February Austin Monthly feature on the arts – and funding the arts – in Austin, Texas. Program is embedded below:
Music & Entertainment • By Michael Kanin • Feb 20, 2017
Theater group seeks city lease deal to stay in business
A nonprofit theater group hopes to tap into the city of Austin’s recent focus on preserving creative spaces within the city and get a new home for experimental fine arts in the process. Representatives of the Rude Mechanicals (or “Rude…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 9, 2017
Music venues' 'agent of change' proposal faces revisions ahead of spring vote
The city of Austin has concluded its series of public forums on a pair of proposed policy moves that would attempt to draw clear lines of responsibility between new residential developments and creative spaces that are increasingly co-mingling in the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 3, 2017
Austin Monitor Radio: The City of Austin and its music policies
Austin Monitor freelancer Chad Swiatecki chats with guests Amy Lombardi and Rick Carney about the City of Austin’s live music policies. Post is embedded below:
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 30, 2017
New Rodeo Austin chief calls Expo Center expansion 'a no-brainer'
With a deep banking and private investment background as well as an extensive business network throughout Texas, new Rodeo Austin CEO Rob Golding could be an important dealmaker in the long-brewing effort to conduct a grand revamp of the Travis…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 18, 2017
Council expected to take up agent of change and entertainment licenses in March
Regulations for live music venues throughout Austin appear to be changing both very quickly and remarkably slowly. At Monday’s meeting of the city’s Music Commission, the dominant topic was the long-proposed “agent of change” principle that is intended to reduce…
