Lite + Brite: Austin Events 12/22

Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.

This week we passed a meaningful benchmark in our subscriber count. I’m not going to tell you what that benchmark is because I worry you’d be like “oh it’s so sad that Leila thinks that number of subscribers is meaningful.” It’s like when you say to someone, “These jeans were such a bargain, you’ll never guess how much I paid for them,” and they guess, “Fifteen cents,” and then you feel deflated because actually you paid ten dollars. Anyway, we are very grateful for all our subscribers for getting us to this mysterious meaningful benchmark. You are even better than a pair of bargain jeans.

This is, unsurprisingly, a quiet week for events. The highlight is probably Tuba Christmas tomorrow (Friday) morning. We went to Tuba Christmas last year (here’s our Instagram post about it) and it was delightfully weird. Otherwise, there are so few events happening this week that we’ve gone ahead and also listed some of our NYE finds. If you scroll past the normal weekly event listings, you’ll find some indie sleazy, Bowie-esque, and hellish ideas for the 31st.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

Our next live event won’t be until 2024, but in the meantime we’ve got some music to share with you if you’re looking for a little ear candy. Brian played an hour full of indie rock, synthpop, + R&B Christmas songs on his radio show, No Humans Allowed, last night on Kpiss. Stream that here or scroll down for the track listing. NHA broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm.

We did our final 2023 No Lights No Lycra (our dance party in the dark) last week. We’ll be back at West China Tea on January 11th. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by over the year. You can listen to a live recording of last week if you need something non-holiday themed to listen to, or if you wanna hear what NLNL sounds like. Or scroll down for the tracklisting.

What is No Lights No Lycra?
Austin’s twice-monthly, judgment-free, substance-free, high-impact dance thing in the dark. It’s a DJ night that’s not at the club, a workout that’s not at the gym, a personal meditation that’s anything but silent. It’s produced by us, your kindly L+B overlords, and usually one or the other of us is on the hook for DJ duties. Read more about us in the Austin Chronicle. You can listen the kind of music we play over on Brian’s Mixcloud.

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 12/22

  • Tuba Christmas at the state capitol
    Christmas songs performed by a symphony of tuba players
  • Illumaverse at dadaLab
    Immersive, holiday-themed light installations
  • The Mutt-cracker (Sweet!) at the Vortex
    An all-dog not-at-all-ballet production of the holiday favorite

Saturday 12/23

Sunday 12/24

Tuesday 12/26

Wednesday 12/27

Thursday 12/28

LOOKING AHEAD TO NYE
Since New Year’s is fast approaching and there are a lot of ticketed events, here’s a few things that looked good to us. We’ll list these + more next week, but here’s a sneak peak

No Humans Allowed 175
Dingo Bells

It’s almost Christmas, so on NHA we celebrated our third holiday season on Kpiss by listening to some of our favorite synth-laden Christmas tunes plus a few new ones.

Stream Dingo Bells

Tracklist
Telex – Dingo Bells
Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas (Moscoman Rework)
Saint Etienne – I Was Born on Christmas Day ft. Tim Burgess
The Hit Parade – Christmas Tears ft. Amelia Fletcher
Evripidis and His Tragedies – All I Want for Christmas Is a Synthesizer ft. Marc Ribera & Eliza Ariadne Kalfa
Pas/Cal – Last Christmas
Dent May – I’ll Be Stoned for Christmas
Holy Ghost & Classixx – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Tatsuro Yamashita – Angels We Have Heard on High
Alexander O’Neal – Our First Christmas
August Darnell – Christmas on Riverside Drive
Sandy Marton – Merry Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
The Kinks – Father Christmas

No Humans Allowed is Brian Blackout’s award-winning, dodgy European news coverage receiving, weekly robots-themed radio show on internet station KPISS.fm. Machine vibes 4 machines. Songs for robots, androids, mandroids, cyborgs, AIs, cylons, skinjobs, roombas, wifi routers, smart devices, anything colored Bondi blue, and virtual assistants. Humans not required. Broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm, with over 150 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.

No Lights No Lycra ATX 159
w/Brian Blackout

Recorded live in the dark at West China Tea House on December 14, 2023.

Listen to No Lights No Lycra 159

Tracklist
Madi Diaz – Trust Fall (Jensen Sportag Remix)
The Supreme Jubilees – It’ll All Be Over (Ron Basejam Edit)
P.M. Dawn – Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine
Claudia Telles – Foi como um Sonho (Patchouli Brothers Edit)
Icehouse – Electric Blue
Rod Stewart – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy
Róisín Murphy – Something More (Soulwax Remix)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Ring My Bell (Hula & K. Fingers club mix)
Buzz Compass – Copa for Fun
Madonna – Vogue
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Kornél Kovács – Pantalón
Lauer – Make It Stay (Gerd Janson Remix)
Kylie Minogue – Love at First Sight
Ibibio Sound Machine – Something We’ll Remember
Bollywood Freaks – Don’t Stop You Get to Bollywood
Boys Don’t Cry – I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark (Arthur Baker Mix)
The Knack – My Sharona
Joe Bataan – Subway Joe
Mitski – The Only Heartbreaker
The The – This Is the Day
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Home – All at Once

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers Katie Green, Christina Jue, Colleen MB, Lilly Ettinger, Lena Long, Amalia Litsa, Jacob Rosenberg, Alexander Freed, Spencer, Kristen Backor, Timon A., Kate Murray, and Amy Wilde. We’re deeply grateful for your support, which allows us to do things like “pay our Mailchimp fee” and “spend hours researching Austin events when technically we should be working.”

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SOCIALS

Recent weeks found us partying with Art Island at the Coral Snake, admiring art lamps at Highland Collective, and experiencing immersive art at dadaLab’s Illumaverse. Follow Lite + Brite on Instagram to keep up with our adventures. And come chat with us and the rest of the L+B community on our Discord server!

ABOUT US

How do we choose which events to feature?

Honestly, it’s pretty random. We might include anything in Austin that we, personally, would conceivably want to go to, generally excluding normal concerts, comedy shows, and movie showtimes because there are many other good resources for finding those. (We especially recommend Showlist for live music, The Darker Side of Austin for goth and metal stuff, and the 60+ Weirdest Things in Austin for exactly what it sounds like). This list is by no means exhaustive; it’s just stuff that caught our eye this week. If you have an event that you want us to consider including, send it over.

Who are we?

We make this newsletter. We do our own events, most prominently No Lights No Lycra (every second and fourth Thursday of the month). We once got called “local Austin couple” by KXAN. We do some other stuff here and there. We love going out to creative events in Austin, and we want you to join us. Visit us at liteandbriteatx.com, and support us on Patreon if you like what we do.

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, CHAMPIONS

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