Live Music

There's no shortage of stuff to do during SXSW, but here are a few pop-ups that we're excited about at KUT.

More than a thousand people applied to Austin's Live Music Fund grant program in 2024. More than $4.5 million was doled out to nearly 140 recipients. But many longtime artists were denied assistance.

So long Oat Willie's, Giddy Ups and Irene's. We won't forget you.

About 70 ACC students spent the first weekend of ACL Fest learning the ins and outs of putting on a music festival as they prepare for careers in the industry.

There will be famous people, out-of-towners and lots of traffic. Here’s what you need to know to prepare.

Just 137 out of 1,000 applicants received grants this year from the first-of-its-kind program to help keep Austin musicians in Austin. While scores praise the program, there were some hiccups in the last round of grant funding.

The concert was so epic — and so messy — that if you remember it, maybe you weren’t really there.

The festival got a lot of flak for its partnerships last year from pro-Palestinian musicians who dropped out of the festival in protest.

By the end of the century in Austin, it's possible that half of the days in a given year would have triple-digit temperatures, according to KXAN's former chief meteorologist David Yeomans. The city's outdoor music venues said hotter summers are already affecting business.

Months after demolition on the Erwin Center started, the exterior walls are coming down. We asked for your best memories of concerts, graduations, wrestling, circuses, Disney on Ice and everything else — and you sent us more than a thousand responses.