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Tag Archives: Austin Music Commission
Live music proponents revive 'agent of change,' with eye toward fall
After it lay dormant since July, city leaders and music industry professionals are restarting the process that – it is hoped – will protect live music venues and nearby residential buildings from clashing over noise and general quality-of-life issues. Known…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 31, 2018
Nonprofits pitching in on cultural land trust proposal
A group of Austin nonprofit organizations are working together on an effort that would see the city of Austin create a cultural land trust to buy and preserve properties around the city for use as theaters, studios, live music venues…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 12, 2018
Commission: Add music venues in CodeNEXT to help clubs spread through city
The push is on to make live music venues a distinct business use case in the city’s building code, a move that music industry proponents hope will make it easier for music hot spots to emerge in neighborhoods throughout the…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 10, 2018
Kitchen to take up city efforts to preserve music, arts venues
Council Member Ann Kitchen has started work on a resolution that will direct city staff to examine ways for the city to step up and help prevent music venues, small community theaters and other creative spaces from being priced out…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 12, 2017
Commission wants live music venues specified in CodeNEXT
Austin city staff and live music industry stakeholders are working to add a “live music venue” use case designation to CodeNEXT, the city’s in-process building code that will determine how Austin grows over the next two-plus decades. If approved for…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 6, 2017
Music Commission seeks city properties list, but who's got it?
Austin’s Music Commission is making another push to have the city’s Office of Real Estate Services compile a list of city-owned properties that are currently unused and could be made available for creative groups and music venues that get priced…
City Hall • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 8, 2017
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Data suggests economic boost from later Red River noise curfews
With the six-month pilot program giving outdoor music venues on Red River Street later weekend sound curfews set to expire at the end of the month, business owners and city officials are putting together their case for extending the program…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 4, 2017
Venue rent relief seen as goal of new incentives programs
As Economic Development Department staff worked on plans to update the city’s economic incentives program, the department’s top executive gave a preview earlier this week of how the creative economy could be helped in the coming years. At Monday’s meeting…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 14, 2017
City reveals new music division manager
The city has selected the new head of the Music and Entertainment Division, roughly three months after the position opened following a cloud of controversy. The announcement that Erica Shamaly, a longtime Austinite with close to two decades in local…
City Hall • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 11, 2017
HAAM considers enrollment closure amid growing health care costs
A growing base of musician members needing health care services has officials with the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians looking at possibly closing the program to new members later this year. The nonprofit, which was founded 11 years ago, will…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 10, 2017
Hotels to join music venues, residents in revamping 'agent of change' proposal
Representatives from Austin’s music venues, neighborhood groups and hotel industry are expected to begin meeting next week to rework the city’s long-gestating “agent of change” policy intended to reduce friction between those three interest groups. That charge was the result…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 9, 2017
Music venues may face new rules as city adjusts 'agent of change' proposal
Austin officials have made significant changes to a pair of proposed policies affecting the city’s live music economy, and will spend much of May presenting them to local boards and community groups ahead of an expected early June vote by City…
