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
The uplifting
Pre-Form, Future Museums latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls synchronicity. It s been an incredibly surreal experience regarding the timing of it all, he states about the release and the recent birth of his son.
The album puffs and drenches in an unusual clarification, each notion more defining than the one before it. Where much of Future Museums work typically introduces varying levels of haze, this iteration – based on Lord s lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences – finds the local producer in a period of evolving clarity. The all electronic