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Pause/Play — 77 episodes
Season 7 of Pause/Play starts October 27th!
BONUS — Austin Artists Share What It Means to Play ACL Fest
Can we look to the past to figure out the future of affordable housing for musicians?
What’s going on with the Live Music Fund?
BONUS — The city has millions of dollars to support the Austin music scene. But who gets the money? (rerun)
The Future of Vinyl
The Future of Music at SXSW
BONUS: Terry Lickona from Austin City Limits on what cuts to federal funding for public media mean for TV’s longest running music program.
AI and the Future of Music
Streaming Sucks: The good, the bad and the future of music platforms
Social Media & Music: Love It, Hate It, or Use It?
Doing all the things: The new blueprint for making a living in music
Season 6 of Pause Play starts June 17th!
Don’t Austin My Lockhart: How Austin musicians seeking affordability are impacting surrounding towns
How SXSW went from an Austin festival to an international experience
Pause/Play is taking a quick break
An Austin Artist’s Guide to Success: Part 2
An Austin Artist’s Guide to Success: Part 1
Who owns Austin’s venues, how it’s changed, and why it matters.
Ticketing through an Austin Lens
How laws targeting LGBTQIA+ Texans are impacting Austin’s live music scene
Peace, Love, and Texas Women: Women in Austin music reflect on the Texas abortion ban
How is climate change impacting Austin’s live music scene?
How are global and local changes impacting the Austin Music Scene?
Trailer: Pause/Play Season 5
An Outsider’s Take on the Austin Music Scene
All About Our Listeners
Nonprofit aims to reverse Austin’s 1928 master plan and get SXSW money to the BIPOC community
What Touring is Like Now
Black Artists discuss the state of the Austin Music Scene
All About the Census
Austin has a music union? Here’s what it is and how it works.
Meet the Austin non-profit rethinking how record labels work: Spaceflight Records
How can people get money into the hands of musicians, outside of being fans and going to shows?
Do Musicians Need Corporate Support to Survive in the New Austin?
Take note U.S.: Canada actually gives its musicians money
Why doesn’t commercial music in the U.S. get any financial support outside of, say, fans?
NFTs and Music: Austin Musicians’ Thoughts on NFTs
NFTs and Music: What is a NFT? The Song!
NFTs and Music: Minting an NFT
NFTs and Music: What is an NFT?
The Return of SXSW
Bonus! A City Department just raised their rate for musicians to $200 per hour.
What Mayor Adler has to say about the Live Music Fund
The city has millions of dollars to support the Austin music scene. But who gets the money?
Musician pay for live shows in Austin hasn’t changed in 40 years. Here are some other ways they’ve found to make money with music.
Live music doesn’t always pay the bills. So what else can you do?
Could affordable housing save Austin’s music scene?
Bonus! Gina Chavez and Joe Greenwald at ACL Music Festival
How some Austin musicians are finding housing help with HOME
How Austin’s housing market helped build the music scene, and how it could destroy it
Bonus! Music Scenes as Economic Clusters
Why Taméca Jones, Austin’s Queen of Soul, is leaving for LA
We’re Not New York, LA or Nashville. So What Kind of Music City is Austin? Part 1: Dayglow
What Do We Do Now?
What’s Changed for Musicians?
What’s Changed for Music Venues?
For the Fans
Is the Pandemic Over for Austin Music?
To Play, or Not to Play?
The Pivot
The Art of LiveStreaming
The Reopening
One Year Later
Music and Activism with Jonathan “Chaka” Mahone
Why Margin Walker Closed
Mental Health During the Pandemic
The Urban Music Fest & Homer Hill
The Return of Live Music Part 2
The Return of Live Music Part 1
Jackie Venson Artist Feature
Jackie Venson and Austin City Limits
The Venues
Prepared for the Worst: Being a Musician During COVID-19
The Musicians
EThe Pause
Trailer: Pause/Play on the Austin music scene