Hamilton Day is expected to be 'bigger than ever' this year, organizers say with the event expanding from a single day to a weekend of events, and 1,000 businesses expected to participate. It kicked off Thursday evening.
After traveling for a year around Texas, Parts of California, and Central Mexico Julian came back home to Austin, with new music to share and a refined passion to record what he wrote on his travels. See his show at Empire on May 5th at 7:30 P.M. Buy tickets here. Julian Acosta is an Austin, […]
Listen to Your EldersWhile track selection has long been wound up in the red AUX cable of history, the mixtape, a curated and focused selection of songs, is a relatively new concept. For many years the only way to listen to music was live performance, radio broadcast, or pressed vinyl records — all of which were outside the budget of creation for most folks. That is, until magnetic tape came around. Originally done Reel-to-Reel, they were wound up on massive film drums, eventually to form factor reduced to a compact cassette. Ease of recording, copying, and re-recording led to a boom in personal/small commercial use — anyone could make a shitty recording of a radio broadcast or live performances. People could rip from an album they bought, and it was a snap to copy them en masse. The real lightning strike, however, was the Sony Walkman, which made music more than just a home or car experience: you could take your music anywhere. With this perfect storm c