‘Promotions’ Articles

Tonight at Beerland, Future Sounds brings you The Rumble Austin, a FREE event featuring three up-and-coming Austin bands that are quickly becoming must-sees in the local music scene.  International Waters, led by Mitch Calvert of the recently disbanded Voxtrot, are headlining.  International Waters have been heavily influenced by the indie-pop [Continue]

Well, it’s a new week in Austin, which means – what else -  there is another festival over the horizon!  But this weekend promises to hold an especially good one.  It’s the Pachanga Latino Music Festival and it’s taking place on Saturday, May 22nd at Fiesta Gardens.  Pachanga is only a couple of years old, [Continue]

This Saturday (May 15th) at The Backyard, there’s a very interesting and unique event going on called the Green Steam Circus.  Here’s the info from the promoter: Welcome to a movement to create a green, interactive festival with a steam punk theme. Our intention is to invoke the patrons’ creativity and participation in a Jules [Continue]

If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new Quiet Company EP and EP release party with The Rocketboys, The Murdocks, Stereo is a Lie, and the Eastern Sea happening this Friday at Encore.  If you missed it, check out that post here. Well, what you may not know yet is [Continue]

While we’re on the subject of local bands putting on massive shows in May, another Austin-based indie-rock band, The Midgetmen, is celebrating EIGHT years as a band by throwing a badass party at Mohawk on Saturday, May 8th and it’s sure to be a great time.  Why? Well, let’s start with beer.  The party is [Continue]

Quiet Company, one of the local bands we worked with during SXSW, should be a familiar name by now if you’re a regular reader of this blog.  And, if you enjoyed their acoustic performance and want to hear more, there’s good news for you!  The band is releasing a six song EP, Songs for Staying [Continue]

And the winner is… @anewshadeofred for her winning and heartfelt tweet: #IloveNX35because this insane little community is teaching me how to SHINE. Music is life and inspiration. Fearless, relentless, and TRUE Nice job everyone!  There were so many fantastic entries – these were the runners-up. @NoComplaints_ for his righteous [Continue]

Hi everyone!  Before I start posting the second part of my “SXSW Obsession,” I just had to boast about this image.  How sweet is that?! Seanningham designed this poster for our SXSW coverage and I really dig it!  If this is your first trip to my blog in a while, check out the story behind [Continue]

Hi everyone!  It’s time to start the barrage of posts about SXSW!  I apologize if you’re not planning on attending SXSW, because that and NX35 (if you missed it, you can read my NX35 band recommendations here and here) are basically all I’m going to be talking about for the next three weeks easily. Here’s [Continue]

Alright everyone, welcome to Part 2 of my NX35 festival picks!  I hope you checked out my picks for NX35′s Thursday and Friday schedules and if you’re interested in attending the fest, word has it that wristbands are in short supply.  You may want to get on that.  If you have the time and the [Continue]