Lite + Brite: 26 Astronomical Austin Events 1/24

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

We hope everyone is surviving this frosty January better than our poor Pride of Barbados. Sometimes the cold can keep us in the house, but it’s warming up! So here we are slipping into your inbox to sprinkle a little magic pixie event dust into your life just in case you’re getting cabin fever. Speaking of faeries, they’ll be at Tiny Minotaur’s Unseelie party, or maybe you prefer Tolkien trivia, indie gaming meetups, astronaut award shows, improv comedy about French existentialism, ghost hunting equipment showcases, or Gallagher brother lookalike contests? You could shop for crystals, shop for fashion, or attend “Adult Sleep Away Sword Camp.” If that’s not enough you can paint with muralist Peelander-Yellow, or “squeer-dance” with Erica Nix. It’s all out there and you probably won’t even need a scarf.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

We held our second No Lights No Lycra of January this week and you can listen to a recording of it here. We’re back for 2nd + 4th Wednesdays in February, starting February 12th. You can get tickets here, and if you’d like a tracklist from the last NLNL just keep on scrolling.

No Humans Allowed returned to the imaginary (except that one time when it was at dadaLab) Club Dongle where robots were dancing to electro, italo, + house to stay warm. Listen to Club Dongle’s Broken Heater in the Kpiss archives.

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 1/24

  • Game On! At the Long Center
    Austin Symphony perform video game soundtracks w/cosplay, VR
  • What Remains at dadaLab
    Modern dance performances from locals + NYC-based artists
  • WEIRD Open 2025 at Austin Sports Academy
    Fight historically at “Adult Sleep Away Sword Camp”
  • (weekly thru 2/21) Hell Is These Four People at the Hideout
    Existential improvisers tackle Sartre and the afterlife

Saturday 1/25

Sunday 1/26

  • Lord of the Rings Day at BookPeople
    Get yr Tolkien on w/LotR-themed trivia, D+D, + baked goods
  • Oasis Tribute Show and Lookalike Competition at Mohawk
    Watch bands cover Oasis, + Gallagher bros lookalike contest
  • Bronco Brunch at Radio East
    DJ, linedancing lessons, “squeer-dancing” all before noon
  • Games Y’all at 1908 Kramer Ln.
    Indie game devs + fans meetup to try out games in progress
  • Grand Reopening at Nature’s Treasures
    Displaced shop reopens w/psychics, tarot, reiki, + massage
  • Astro Awards at the Paramount
    Watch awards show for space industry w/panels, live music
  • Le Garage Sale at the Palmer Events Center
    Fashion shopping bonanza with an eye for gallic naming
  • Tribeza Interiors Tour at homes throughout Austin
    Tour some of Austin’s best-decorated homes according to Tribeza
  • WEIRD Open 2025 at Austin Sports Academy
    Fight historically at “Adult Sleep Away Sword Camp”

Thursday 1/30

  • Fusebox January Salon at dadaLab
    See works by artists who fuse music, storytelling, + live performance
  • Nerd Nite at Barrel O’ Fun
    Hear high-caliber talks on assorted nerdy topics

No Humans Allowed 220
NHA220 – Club Dongle’s Broken Heater

This week found us once again transmitting from the liminal robots-only nightclub Club Dongle. The heating system is on the fritz! Robots can survive low temps, but if they stop dancing, maybe their servomotors will freeze up. There’s only one way to ensure continued mobility: don’t stop dancing.

Stream Club Dongle’s Broken Heater

Tracklist
Luna – Recuerdos (Nazario Edit)
52nd Street – Cool as Ice (Jellybean Benitez Restructure)
Voltage – All Night (Azari & III Remix)
Scotch – Penguins’ Invasion
Alexander Robotnick + the Hacker – Viens Chez Moi
East Side Beat – Ride Like the Wind
Phonique – For the Time Being ft. Erlend Øye
Moby – Go (Woodtick Mix)
RFX & YPS – Passion
De Lux – Act of Defiance
Lindstrøm – I Feel Space
Moana Pozzi – No Estoy Bonita (Millhouse Edit)
E’lissa – Hola Hola (Orion Agassi 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 over 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 178
w/Brian Blackout

Recorded live in the dark at 3rd Eye Meditation Lounge on January 22nd, 2025

Listen to NLNL ATX 178 on Mixcloud

Tracklist
Andrew Gordon – Walking the Lonely Streets
Queen – Cool Cat (V4YS Edit)
Fern Kinney – Baby Let Me Kiss You
Shabba Ranks – Mr Loverman
Sade – When Am I Going to Make a Living (Poolside Edit)
Ace of Base – All That She Wants
Missy Elliott – Work It
Ten Fé – Twist Your Arm (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)
Bonnie Tyler – Married Man (Lauren Murada Edit)
Justin TImberlake – My Love (DFA Remix)
Psymon Spine – Wizard Acid
James Brown – Get up offa That Thing / Release the Pressure
Les Sins – Why
Cassie – Me & U (Eli Escobar Remix)
O. Wake – Riper than Ripe
Black Light Smoke – Girls Dance with Computer
La Roux – Bulletproof
The Presets – This Boy’s in Love (Lifelike Remix)
Pnau – Embrace ft. Ladyhawke
Technotronic – Pump up the Jam
The Movement – Jump (Mutha Mix)
Nelly Furtado – Maneater
Blur – Song 2
Pixies – Debaser
The La’s – There She Goes
Home – All at Once
Joël Fajerman – Plage de Lune
Baron Zen – Burn Rubber (Dâm Funk Remix)

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 it in the Austin Chronicle. You can listen to the kind of music we play over on Brian’s Mixcloud.

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers Michael Sales, Zach, Gino Scaramuzza, Erica Speegle, Jarrett Holtz, Thomas Refferson, Dale Markowitz, Jason & Luciana, Bones Malones, Amy Hayes, Katie Green, Christina Jue, Colleen MB, Lilly Ettinger, Lena Long, Amalia Litsa, Alexander Freed, 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 enjoying 1-800-CLOWN-TOWN at Kick Butt Coffee, exploring Mesmerize, and experiencing the 37th Street Lights. 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, Concept Animals’ ATX Art for You for gallery openings + artist talks, 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, + 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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