Lite + Brite: 45 Divine Austin Events 9/27

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

This is one of those weeks where there’s so much going on in Austin and in our own lives that we’re really working to get this newsletter out to you in a timely fashion. As usual, the decline in high temps will mean more and more stuff for us all to do. This weekend you can celebrate the onset of Fall, hoist beer steins for Oktoberfest, or get into the Dia de los Muertos spirit early w/commisioned altares created by artists. October is Hispanic History Month and that means lots of themed events. Take part in a fest celebrating the fusion of traditional music w/new media, enjoy food + art from across many Latin-American cultures, or elevate tacos from a mere food to that of art. Or don’t be thematic! Watch a drag tribute to Divine, or a unicorn-forward fantasy-themed drag show. Learn how to blues dance. Celebrate a monolithic reptile/automobile hybrid. Just some of the stuff you can check out this week, so enjoy it!

Also, if you’ve ever considered supporting Lite + Brite on Patreon, now is an especially good time. Readers who support us at the $5 tier will soon get early access to our annual Halloween spreadsheet—that’s right, the one you surely heard about on KXAN. And they get year-round access to our advance event tracking spreadsheet, which currently has 89 entries. Plus we like them even more than we like all the rest of our subscribers, which is a lot.

Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our first edition of NLNL at 3rd Eye Meditation Lounge. We had a great time and we will eventually be getting back into a biweekly rhythm with NLNL, but the holidays will throw things into a little bit of flux so our upcoming dates are:

October 9 • October 23 • November 13 • December 11

You can get a ticket in advance here and you can listen to a recording of last week’s edition on Brian’s Mixcloud here. Scroll down for a full track listing.

No Humans Allowed, Brian’s radio show for fans of deep synth sounds, moved to a new Tuesday slot this week, and to settle in, this week’s episode was a CD-ROM-themed sampler of all things NHA with lots of italo, new beat, + synthpop. You can stream this week’s episode on Kpiss or check out the full show archives. Keep scrolling for the full playlist. Also, Brian recorded an interview with the Threadmage from Austin’s own Assorted Potions this week to talk about Tiny Minotaur + all things Texas Dungeon Synth. That’ll be airing on this coming Tuesday’s episode of NHA which airs live w/a chat at 6pm CT on Kpiss.fm.

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 9/27

Saturday 9/28

Sunday 9/29

  • PowerPints at the Highball
    Quick comedic talks on a variety of esoteric topics
  • Alamo Arcade at the Highball
    A gigantic Super Smash Bros competition for prizes
  • East Side Kings Festival at 12th + Chicon
    Live music fest helps preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
  • Austin Coffee Festival at the Palmer Events Center
    A celebration of all things coffee including talks, latte art, + live music
  • Blue Lapis Light at 5508 Parkcrest Rd.
    “Site-specific aerial dance work dedicated to joining our global community”
  • Future Traditions Fest at dadaLab
    Watch a documentary about a musician of the Quecha people

Monday 9/30

  • Beat Sessions at Spokesman Coffee
    Graffiti artists “pitted against each other in a competitive timed format”

Tuesday 10/1

  • The Art of Tacos at the Cathedral
    Texas Monthly’s taco correspondent elevates tacos w/discussions
  • Umlauf After Dark at the Umlauf
    Hispanic heritage month begins w/karaoke, live music, vendors, live screenprinting
  • One Page Salon at Radio Coffee + Beer
    Hear local writers read their works in progress + recently published work

Wednesday 10/2

Thursday 10/3

  • Cine Flotante at the Thompson Hotel
    Watch classic films lounging in a pool on top of a hotel
  • Testify at Barrel O’ Fun
    Storytellers tell true stories about obsessions
  • The Galactic Salon at Kick Butt Coffee
    Mystery-themed burlesque + drag performers, live readings, live music
  • Legacy Business Month Kick-Off Party at Zilker Taproom
    Celebrate some of Austin’s longest-running businesses w/DJs, photo booth

No Humans Allowed 208
CD-ROM Sampler

No Humans Allowed is moving to Tuesdays starting tonight! We’ve got a CD-ROM that’s full of HUNDREDS of megabytes of the stuff that makes NHA tick. We’ll be loading up electro, italo, new beat, synthpop, + library tunes peppered with the occasional foray into deep dark technology nostalgia.

Stream CD-ROM Sampler

Tracklist
Dave Vorhaus – Mainframe Blues (Hysteric Edit)
Zodiac – Pacific
Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
Moebius / Plank / Thompson – The Truth?
Ginny – Can’t Be Serious
’N Umoh – Acid Reign (RFX Edit)
Alan Shearer – Sons of the Snake
Jakob Mäder – Morning Sun
DJ Oetker – Doctor’s Game
Alf Emil EIk – To You
Assorted Potions – Remembering Old Spells (to Reminisce)

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 171
w/Brian Blackout

Listen to No Lights No Lycra 171

Tracklist
Duett – Lifestyle
Runners Club 95
Kings of Convenience – Gold for the Price of Silver
Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
Airbird & Napolian – In the Zone
Tame Impala – Borderline
Greg Wilson – Two Sides of Sympathy
Róisín Murply – Murphy’s Law
Claes Rosen – Wonderful (HNNY Edit)
Daft Punk – Something about Us (Eastar Remix)
Anita Ward – Ring My Bell
Chromeo – Don’t Turn the Lights on
Tony Joe White & Flying Mojito Bros – ‘Bout to Dance (in My Pants)
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 (Butch le Butch Remix)
LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator
Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess
Boney M – NIghtflight to Venus (Flying Squad Re-edit)
Mylo – Drop the Pressure
Classixx – I’ll Get You (ft. Jeppe)
Blue Hawaii – I Felt Love (Suzanne Kraft Remix)
K.W.S. – Please Don’t Go
Jamiroquai – Canned Heat
Home – All at Once

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers Jason & Luciana, 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 (which is on hiatus but will resume), + 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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