Lite + Brite: 29 (Re)Mixed Austin Events 7/11

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

Tonight is a big one for us: we’re hosting our final No Lights No Lycra at West China Tea House. We hope to have news of a new venue to share with you in the near future, but in the meantime let’s conclude our tenure at West China Tea with a party to remember. 

There’s plenty more going on in this hot city in the coming days. Do arts & crafts with mixed media, collages, or beer. Learn about computer programming, astronomy, or queer phenomenology. Celebrate Bastille Day with punk rock, an artspace’s birthday with water balloons, a local musician’s sophomore album release with a prom do-over, or the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock 99 with grotesque erotica. And, if you can handle it, here’s one last major thing to celebrate: Brian’s birthday with us, tonight, at No Lights No Lycra! Scroll down for details on the next week of events (starting with tonight).

Also: we love supporting folks doing creative work in the community, and so, as a follow-up to our guide to making friends in Austin, note that Future Front has just launched their annual (and mostly free) social club series. So if you want to hang out with other Austinites who like slow gardening or journaling or RPGs or whatever, you can sign up for those.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

It’s here! All things pass into the night. Tonight will be our final No Lights No Lycra at West China Tea House, and probably the last NLNL for a while as we regroup + look into other venue options. Since it’s the last night we’re going to be staying a little later, so tonight will run from 8pm until 10pm. Sunset is around 8:30 and the tea house has a skylight, so it’ll start dim and get increasingly darker until sunset. You can join us at any time during those 2 hours, so if you like it dark come a little later, and if not come and enjoy the sunset with us. If you want to hear how Brian Blackout’s sets at NLNL usually sound you can listen to a recording of the last one here or scroll down for a track listing. This is the closing of a chapter for us and we hope you can join us for a magical goodbye.

This week, No Humans Allowed (Brian’s radio show for robots + smart devices) was fueled by recent Bandcamp purchases and vinyl rips, and full of esoteric new wave tunes paired with a broad mix of genres new and old. Stream Upgrade 3.0.2 from the Kpiss archives here or scroll down for the tracklist. NHA broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm.

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

Thursday 7/11

Friday 7/12

Saturday 7/13

Sunday 7/14

  • Punk Rock Bastille Day at Justine’s
    Punk bands take over Justine’s for Bastille Day w/photo booth + pizza pop-ups
  • Jane Austin Improv at Coldtowne
    Improv comedians dress up and skewer 19th century literature
  • The Troll of Pease at We Luv Video
    Watch films documenting Austin’s recent growing pains + changes
  • Charlie’s Golden Girls at Coldtowne
    The Charlies Angels / Golden Girls mashup of your dreams
  • (weekly thru 8/4) Splash Dance at the Austin Motel
    Poolside aerobics with Austin’s most creative aerobics instructor

Tuesday 7/16

  • Astronomy on Tap at Celis Brewery
    Gather and talk astronomy w/UT profs while imbibing beverages

Wednesday 7/17

  • (Re)Mixed Media at the Dougherty Arts Center
    Get creative w/the leftover supplies of previous creativity
  • Arts & Crafts Brews Night at Austin Beerworks
    Work on your crafting while drinking craft beers
  • Collage and Connect at Riches Art Gallery
    Learn collage making + practice mindfulness at the same time

Thursday 7/18

  • Nerd Nite at Barrel O’ Fun
    Learn about programmers + coding in a fun, loose lecture format
  • Latino Moonlight Serenade at Lady Bird Lake
    Float on the river under moonlight listening to live Latino music
  • Theatre For Us By Us Fest at Ground Floor Theatre
    “5 original plays each night by playwrights with disabilities”
  • 4D Theory Thursdays at Community Garden + MoHA
    “Short readings” on “queer phenomenology” w/discussion

No Humans Allowed 198
Upgrade 3.0.2

Our music collection recently got an upgrade and it’s time to check out all the new features. A delicious blend of tunes new to the NHA music library, some new and some old. Lots of esoteric, sublime, + anthemic new wave with a dash of italo, madchester and modern electropop.

Stream Upgrade 3.0.2

Tracklist
Degan – Longing for Summertime (Hysteric Edit)
Night Moves – Transdance
The Farm – Groovy Train (Club Mix)
Blancmange – Lose Your Love
Intelligence Dept – Sleeping City
Strange Silence – Modesty Blaise
Schmutz – Love Games
Anna Prior – Nervous
X-Coast – Soft Touch
Kenji Kawai – At Parting
Scizzie – Aquatic Ambience (Slowed + Reverb)
Bonnie Tyler – Married Men (Hysteric Edit)

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 nearly 200 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.

No Lights No Lycra ATX 169
w/Brian Blackout

Recorded live in the dark at West China Tea House on June 13, 2024.

Listen to No Lights No Lycra 169

Tracklist
Duett – Lifestyle
Vektroid – Calm
Fern Kinney – Baby Let Me Kiss You
Airbird & Napolian – In the Zone ft. Erika Spring
Warren G – Regulate (Jamming Remix)
Tupperwave – Make It Be Summer
Velella Velella – Brass Ass
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance (Italo Brutalo Edit)
Taylor Swift – Lavender Haze (Pepsi Sine Rework)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Do What You Like
Bee Gees – Night Fever
Sophie Ellis Bextor – Murder on the Dancefloor
Tatsuro Yamashita – Silent Screamer (Max Mason & Nayla Rework)
Talking Heads – Girlfriend Is Better (Bit Funk Edit)
CeCe Peniston – We Got a Love Thang
New Love Ltd & Interstate 95 – So Much to Talk about (Tudo Bem) (Chuggin Edit)
The Juan Maclean – Happy House
LCD Soundsytem – Losing My Edge
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Home – All at Once

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers Bones Malones, Amy Hayes, Katie Green, Christina Jue, Colleen MB, Lilly Ettinger, Lena Long, Amalia Litsa, 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 watching brass bands at HONK!TX, watching the eclipse at Bobo’s Snack Bar, and watching dancing forklifts at The Way of Water at Onion Creek. 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 are Leila + Brian. We make this newsletter. We do our own events, most often No Lights No Lycra (every second and fourth Thursday of the month), + also BYOT, a party where we share very good YouTubes (here’s a playlist from the last one). We go very hard seeing bands at SxSW (here are playlists of our favorites from 2024). 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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