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Despite lengthy discussion last year, Austin City Council did not allocate exclusive funding from the first federal stimulus, the CARES package, for local music venues. New COVID-19 relief from Washington incoming, Austin s music entities begin to queue up. Music Makes Austin and the Austin Music Commission submitted budget proposals to the city earlier this month. Both request over $20 million to support Austin s music economy from the federal American Rescue Plan and Cody Cowan, who also leads the Red River Cultural District association, said that the MMA and AMC requests aligned coincidentally. Alongside disaster assistance, both plans also mention release of the long-discussed ....
(l-r): Michael Ramos, Shirley Zhu (Fuvk), Anastasia, Eliza Gilkyson, Nina Diaz, DJ Chicken George, Tori and Tiffany Baltierra (Tiarra Girls), and Scott Free (Worm Suicide) (By Zeke Barbaro / Getty Images. Photos courtesy of the artists.) On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 10:10am – all area schools having shut down suddenly March 13 due to the spread of the coronavirus – I emailed an Austin Music Awards multiple Band(leader) of the Year winner and media progressive: Hey man, how are you? I wanted to start checking in with some musicians – get a window into individual situations through short Q&A s. Mind if I send you a few questions? ....
Austin Music Awards, held at the Moody Theater on March 11, turned out to be the final show I attended in 2020. That also proved the last time I dressed up with a tiny purse, saw those friends you only run into at shows, and went out on the patio to talk shit about Austin music. While the 40th annual Austin Music Poll can t account for such nuances, it addresses the ongoing pandemic head-on. Detailed last week in The Austin Music Poll Got COVID-19, (Music, Jan. 8), the ballot winnowed down to 20 categories and the Hall of Fame as spearheaded by the coronavirus-specific new categories including Best Livestreaming Artist, Best 2020-Themed Song, and Musician Who Went Above & Beyond. As evidenced by passionate emails for broadening the Best Online Series category, the Poll and the Austin Music Awards they bestow still mean a lot locally after four long decades. A body of 600 homegrown music professionals helped determine the multiple-choice nominees, now online at ....