{"id":458117,"date":"2026-10-06T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458117\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:58:11","slug":"from-san-marcos-to-austin-city-limits-the-university-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458117\/","title":{"rendered":"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits \u2013 The University Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of love for music in Austin, but I think San Marcos just had, you know, such an intimate scene that made it like, well, it would be easy just to get your foot in the door and play at the colleges,\u201d McBride said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of programs that I think just help student bands, like get in front of the college and play music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band started with McBride and Gerlach, who grew up together and eventually found Holmquist, who lived down the hall from the two. They met Speer a year later and formed The 4411. The band members believe it is important to honor and showcase their roots and how they\u2019ve grown, from an EP dedicated to coming of age in San Marcos to basing their name on one of their hometown addresses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the whole EP has a very coming of age through college [feel],\u201d McBride said. \u201cIt feels very connected to who we are and especially the past year that we [were] working on it. So I think with Sunset Calling, you just need to highlight how much fun we had in college as a band, but also just with each other as friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"photocaptioninline\">Former Texas State students Nick Speer (left) and Cogan McBride (right) performs at Austin City Limits, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Zilker Park. The 4411s are a local San Marcos band that opened the ACL Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image36577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/619A0591.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;\" class=\"\" alt=\"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photocaptioninline\">Former Texas State student Cogan McBride performs at Austin City Limits, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Zilker Park. The 4411s are a local San Marcos band that opened the ACL Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image36576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/619A0894.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;\" class=\"\" alt=\"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photocaptioninline\">Former Texas State student Cogan McBride performs at Austin City Limits, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Zilker Park. The 4411s are a local San Marcos band that opened the ACL Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image36579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/619A0740.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;\" class=\"\" alt=\"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photocaptioninline\">Former Texas State student Cogan McBride performs at Austin City Limits, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Zilker Park. The 4411s are a local San Marcos band that opened the ACL Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image36580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/619A0682.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;\" class=\"\" alt=\"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photocaptioninline\">The 4411s perform at Austin City Limits, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Zilker Park. The 4411s are a local San Marcos band that opened the ACL Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image36578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/619A0470.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;\" class=\"\" alt=\"From San Marcos to Austin City Limits\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of love for music in Austin, but I think San Marcos just had, you know,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-458117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458117","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=458117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}