Jason Frey plays saxophone in Hard Proof. He tells us about one of his most memorable shows in Austin. Catch Hard Proof at KUTX's MapJam 2014 on February 15th. More info at http://kutx.org/mapjam. 

Austin Music Map - Hard Proof

Eddie Lehwald plays trombone in the Urban Achievers Brass Band. He remembers how the band got their start and shares the heart and soul of the band. See the Urban Achievers Brass Band at MAPJAM 2014 on February 15th. Visit kutx.org/mapjam for more information. 

Austin Music Map - Urban Achievers Brass Band

Singer and guitarist Santiago Dietche from the Austin group Growl talks about playing house shows and playing co-ops in your underwear.

Austin Music Map - Growl

DJ Chorizo Funk is one-third of Body Rock ATX, along with Riders Against the Storm. 

Austin Music Map - Body Rock

The Carper Family talks about their legendary porch pickin' parties and that time they thought they lost Loretta Lynn. 

Austin Music Map - The Carper Family

Latasha Lee & the Black Ties - Win Her Heart (Live)

Growl - Out Of Sight Out Of Mind (Live)

The Carper Family - My Baby Dont Like Me (Live)

The East Side Blues Syndicate (www.esbsyndicate.com/) at the Monday night blues jam at the Historic Victory Grill (www.historicvictorygrill.org/). 

The East Side Blues Syndicate at the Historic Victory Grill (#AustinMusicMap)

Each year for Juneteenth, drumlines from across Texas gather for the Alvin Patterson Battle of the Bands.

Alvin Patterson Battle of the Bands: Drumline Competition (#AustinMusicMap)

Hotline: Michael McGeary on Castle Creek

Glover Gill has played accordion in tango groups around Austin for more than a decade and he's central to the city's small and vibrant scene, based largely at Esquina Tango in East Austin. But his route to tango was indirect. The Austin Music Map explores how a former punk rocker found his way to the traditional Argentinian music.

Glover Gill and Austin Tango

Glover Gill at Esquina Tango

Terri Hendrix on the Austin Outhouse

Rosie Flores on Playing for The Boss at the Austin Music Hall

Body Rock ATX

Seven local artists make songs from community-submitted sounds. "Morning Will End the Night" includes the sound of the Metro Rail, birds, bats, singing bowls, wheel squeaks, rushing water, dogs barking, a kid doing card tricks, and friends making tamales.

Austin Remixed: "Morning Will End The Night" by Dana Falconberry

Conjunto at the Moose Lodge

Flashbacks: Frank Cuellar on old conjunto clubs

Marcia Ball on The Split Rail

On June 8th, 1972, The Flatlanders—made up of Lubbock schoolmates Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—played at the One Knite, a dive bar on Red River.

The show was casual. A couple dozen friends came and drank beers and chatted while the band played. As Ely recalls, they were getting ready for a few gigs around Austin and used the session as a chance to work on some of their new material.

Little did The Flatlanders know, the sound engineer at the One Knite was recording. And in fact, they didn’t discover those recordings until almost three decades later.

The Flatlanders Live at the One Knite

Youngbloods Festival at the Continental Club

Austin—as you've no doubt heard before—is the Live Music Capital of the World. A whole network of celebrated institutions dot the map of the city's famous music scene and these places have become the well-loved and well-chronicled musical heart of the city.

But beyond this known map are the vibrant musical margins: the front porches and backyards, dive bars and churches, garages and community centers where people make music in a more communal and informal way.

The Austin Music Map is a participatory documentary media project that explores Austin's diverse sonic geography, creating portraits of the interesting, surprising, and unexpected venues & spaces where musical communities gather. 

Anyone can contribute to this project by submitting audio, photos, and video collected at musical spaces—formal and informal alike—around the city. Visit the Austin Music Map website (www.austinmusicmap.org) to find out more about the project and to check out some of the footage we've already collected. 

The Austin Music Map is brought to you by lead producer Delaney Hall, in collaboration with KUT Austin (www.kut.org) and Localore (www.localore.net)—a national initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR). The project is co-produced with Zeega (www.zeega.org). Financial support for the project comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Wyncote Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

KUTX Austin Music Map

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