local music

This week, Austin is a veritable cornucopia of good local music. It’s too hot to do anything during the day,...

(via Austin Soundcheck)

The only remaining Drag dive bar and one of Austin's oldest local music mainstays, Hole in the Wall, turns 34 this week and is celebrating with a weekend of free shows.

PureVolume, the folks who helped us host last night's killer Local Music is Sexy 5 afterparty—featuring Brazos, White Denim, Pink Nasty, and Zykos—have a full week's worth of awesome parties left.

If you'd like to learn what takes to throw large-scale events like this, here's your perfect chance: PureVolume is looking for help throughout the week.

If you like local music, you'll be happy to know that you can now hear Austin and Texas music around the clock on HD Radio.

You may have already purchased tickets, or you might have been our lucky winner last week (Dax Riggs post-show included), but what you didn't know at the time was that local heartthrobs the Lemurs would be opening.