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The Ultimate Crowd-Sourced Music Map of Austin
Hear recordings of impromptu shows around the city, or upload your own for others to enjoy.
A signature of a good music town is impromptu shows happening in every nook and cranny. And Austin has these melodic moments in spades, as shown (and played) on the community-enhanced “Austin Music Map.”
The interactive project, a collaboration between local music personalities, citizens, and radio station KUTX, seeks to catalog the city’s spontaneous musicality, from a “renegade marching band floating on Lady Bird Lake” to a “secret performance unfolding under a bridge in East Austin.” Here’s more from the mapmakers: