2012 Preview: Austin Free Music Week

Written by Don Simpson // December 31, 2011 // Austin, Music // No comments

181698_183047885064837_167016196668006_320930_2385012_n

What better way to start 2012 than with one of our favorite annual traditions in Austin — Free Week!!! From January 1st through 8th (with a few shows on December 30th), there will be FREE MUSIC at The Mohawk, Red 7, Beauty Bar, The North Door & ND all thanks to Transmission Events, Tecate and Culture Map.

This is a really great time to take some chances and discover your soon to be new favorite bands. Besides, what do you got to lose? Certainly not a cover charge. But, if you would like some of our advice, we wholeheartedly recommend catching as many of these sets as possible:

The Awkward Robot (Beauty Bar, 1/2)

BOY (Mohawk, 1/5)

Brownout (Beauty Bar, 1/6)

Buxton (Beauty Bar, 1/4)

The Eastern Sea (Beauty Bar, 12/30; The Mohawk, 1/2)

Hello Caller (Beauty Bar, 1/2)

The Lemurs (Mohawk, 1/5)

Little Lo (Beauty Bar, 1/4)

Lonesome Heroes (ND, 1/3)

Mandible (Red 7, 1/2)

Moonlight Towers (Red 7, 1/2)

My Education (Mohawk, 1/5; Beauty Bar, 1/7)

My Golden Calf (The Mohawk, 1/2)

Octopus Project DJs (Mohawk, 1/6)

One Hundred Flowers (Mohawk, 1/5)

Ricky Jean Francois (ND, 1/5)

Ringo Deathstarr (Beauty Bar, 1/7)

Shakey Graves (Beauty Bar, 12/30; ND, 1/3)

The Sour Notes (Mohawk, 1/5)

Sundress (Beauty Bar, 1/7)

T-Bird DJ set (North Door, 1/4)

Thieves (Mohawk, 1/1)

Chase Weinacht (ND, 1/3)

Whiskey Shivers (Red 7, 1/1; The Mohawk, 1/3)

Wild Child (ND, 1/3)

The complete Free Week line-up can be found here: Transmission Entertainment – Free Week.

With that, what else is there to say except… HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y’ALL!

Best of 2011: Austin Music

Written by Don Simpson // December 31, 2011 // Austin, Music // No comments

Read More: Beauty Bar, Culture Map, Free Week, ND, Red 7, The Mohawk, The North Door, Transmission Events

About the Author

Though he studied Accounting at Elizabethtown College, Don Simpson insists that the knowledge he acquired during his four years as a deejay and two years as Music Director at the college radio station (WWEC) has been more transformative to his life. Except for some ill-conceived drum lessons in 7th grade (which were promptly cancelled when on one fateful day he brought a Dead Milkmen cassette to practice -- it was a Catholic school), Don is a self-taught musician and makes absolutely no claims of possessing any musical talent. His music journalism career started in the mid-90s with a couple of handmade 'zines (The Crack and Re-Verb) and quickly progressed to contributing writer positions at Devil in the Woods, Pop Culture Press, and the Los Angeles Journal. He currently resides in Austin, Texas where he enjoys writing about music and film.

Read more by Don Simpson

Leave a Comment