letter<\/a> to the city, asking officials to take action to preserve an area that it says generated more than $2 billion over five years.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have been advocating over the last 10 years for incentives and regulatory tools that would help retain these uses,\u201d said Nicole Klepadlo, the executive director of the RRCD.<\/p>\n
Spectrum News reached out to the City of Austin for its response to the district\u2019s letter. A statement from the city reads in part: \u201cWe continue to work with Red River leadership and other partners on long-term solutions, including potential economic development, land-use, and other regulatory tools that could support existing venues and create new cultural opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is what\u2019s happening in the RRCD a sign of changing times in the Live Music Capital of the World?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Austin\u2019s reputation as a music capital will remain,\u201d said Hector Salda\u00f1a, a music writer and columnist for the San Antonio Express-News and curator of the Texas Music Collection at Texas State University\u2019s The Wittliff Collections.<\/p>\n
He has observed some issues Austin\u2019s Music Mile has been facing over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cLand values going up, and then you combine that with economic pressures, club revenues going down,\u201d Salda\u00f1a said. \u201cThese are all things that can form sort of a perfect storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as the overall presence of live music in Austin, he says many bars that shut down in one area have moved to other parts of the city, including outside the downtown area. It’s a sentiment that is echoed by the owner and director of Stinson Recording Studios and The Recording Conservatory of Austin, John Stinson.<\/p>\n
He says audio engineers and video producers are still finding work despite the city\u2019s changing landscape, but have had to adapt.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to diversify,\u201d Stinson said. \u201cYou do need to be able to do for one, live sound, but certainly live events or live feeds and things like that. You\u2019re going to probably be doing more social media content, fast-paced stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if not completely lost, The Nimbus\u2019 band members feel venues relocating away from the RRCD chips away at the heart of Austin\u2019s live music scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we take that away, then the city loses something\u2026 a fundamental part of itself,\u201d McCreadie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin has seen some changes over the years, and it\u2019s a story taking place in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9980,9978,16878,132,134,133,5604,1570,2777,6364,223,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-448755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-latest-arts-entertainment-stories","tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-ctv","tag-entertainment","tag-geraldine-torrellas","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}