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City of Austin Opens FY27 ACME Grant Cycle
Austin’s creative community has another major opportunity to bring new ideas to life. The City of Austin’s Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME) Office has officially opened the FY27 ACME Grant

World Refugee Day Celebration Event: What Refugee Communities Can Contribute to Societies
by Asfa Awan Preparations for this year’s World Refugee Day event began against a backdrop of institutional nervousness and in an increasingly precarious political environment. Challenges almost prevented an in-person

KOOP’s Boots On the Air Receives “Excellence in Media” Award in the Radio Category
Boots producer and host Michael A. Brown (L) with Tom Palladino, Executive Director of the Texas Veterans Commission.

KOOP Celebration Event – The Difference in This Year’s World Refugee Day: Community
A few years ago, an Iraqi refugee walked out of a Walmart and saw two police officers heading towards him. He dropped his bags and raised his arms. The officers
Program Highlights

Matt Melton on The Singer and the Song
The Singer and the Song welcomes Matt Melton. Matt is a fantastic Austin singer songwriter, smooth jazz vocalist, and great ukulele player. I was completely intrigued when I saw him

Party Stains – A Weekly Update from Stronger Than Dirt Featuring Swell Maps, The Rock A Teens, & the Lyres
Some FEATURED ARTISTS on this week’s Stronger Than Dirt (Saturday, August 15, 8-10pm) include DMZ and the Lyres (RIP Jeff “Monoman” Connolly), Animals, Brian Eno, Magazine, Swell Maps, Squire, Nikki and

Rock en Español: When the Geography Changed
On this bilingual edition of The Geography of Sound, host Federico Pacheco traces how an imported musical language became a distinctly Latin American voice. The journey travels across more than

Jacob Kyle on The Austin Bandstand
The Austin Bandstand welcomes Jacob Kyle this Friday August 8, 9-10pm. Jacob is a singer songwriter who’s been performing for over a decade. He draws influence from deep Texas blues.
The Blog

Completely Starstrukk by 3OH!3, Bowling For Soup, and Simple Plan
By Stefny Friday night was the most fun I’ve had in a long time, and I have the gentlemen from the “Bigger Than You Think! Tour – The Sequel” to

Course of Empire’s 1998 Album Telepathic Last Words Reissued by DFW Legacy Series
By Ryan J. Nim DFW Legacy Series is a label whose mission is to make vinyl releases available for some of the bands active in the North Texas scenes from

Welcome Home: The 54th Kerrville Folk Festival
By Cheyenne Young On a Saturday morning in late May, I woke up, cut my overall pants into overall shorts and hit the road. After a two-hour drive on a

Texas Country and Tinikling: ATX Pinoy Cowboy Adobro Album Right Here, Right Now Debuts at Antone’s
By Alison Roh Park Local artist Adobro dropped his debut country album Right Here, Right Now at a self-described “Filipino-Fiesta-meets Texas-Dancehall” album release party on July 12th at the historic
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