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| About Austin: The capital of Live Music and home of legendary Sixth Street, Armadillo World Headquarters and Austin City Limits. |  | Crowds gather nightly to watch 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats shoot out from under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin. Standing atop the bridge, or down below, visitors offer the condemned mosquitoes a last meal while waiting for the bats to make their entrance. | POPULAR CITIES:
AUSTIN
PFLUGERVILLE
LEANDER
MANOR
MC NEIL
| | Visit the Austin community. |
| About BCS: Bryan-College Station. Home of the Fightin' Aggies. If you're curious about the quality of BCS Emergency Services just stroll through Northgate wearing all burnt orange. |  | Patriotic celebration at Kyle Field. | POPULAR CITIES:
BRYAN
COLLEGE STATION
MILLICAN
NAVASOTA
WELLBORN
| | Visit the BCS community. |
| About Big Bend: There's something a bit mystical and magical about Big Bend. This area features some of the most laidback people you'll find anywhere on the planet. |  | Go to The Trading Post in Lajitas, a town of about 100 along the Rio Grande River near Big Bend National Park, and get some long neck beers. Buy them, then feed them to the mayor of the town, Clay Henry, the beer-drinking goat. | POPULAR CITIES:
EL PASO
ALPINE
WICKETT
SANDERSON
ORLA
| | Visit the Big Bend community. |
| About Central Texas: South of DFW and north of Austin and smack dab in the middle of the Lone Star State. |  | The Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum along I-35 in Waco. | POPULAR CITIES:
WACO
KILLEEN
TEMPLE
GATESVILLE
WEATHERFORD
| | Visit the Central Texas community. |
| About DFW: Dallas-Forth Worth. Home of the Stockyards, South Fork Ranch and an incredibly diverse selection of Texas artists. |  | The Fort Worth skyline as seen from the back of a horse. Welcome to Cow Town, USA! | POPULAR CITIES:
DALLAS
FORT WORTH
ARLINGTON
IRVING
GARLAND
| | Visit the DFW community. |
| About Golden Triangle: Defined by the points between Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange, this area is also known as the Zydeco Gateway. Many of the best Cajun and Zydeco musicians can be found along this stretch of I-10. |  | Though Spindletop isn't pumping like she used to, the shipping channels stay busy throughout the Golden Triangle. | POPULAR CITIES:
BEAUMONT
PORT ARTHUR
ORANGE
CLEVELAND
VIDOR
| | Visit the Golden Triangle community. |
| About Gulf Coast: One of the most inspiring places in our grand, diverse state. Just try to find a Texas artist that hasn't written a song (or two) about the Gulf Coast of Texas. |  | Sunset along the Gulf Coast of Texas. | POPULAR CITIES:
CORPUS CHRISTI
GALVESTON
VICTORIA
SUGAR LAND
TEXAS CITY
| | Visit the Gulf Coast community. |
| About Hill Country: The cradle of Texas and Americana music. Many of the states oldest and most historic music venues are located in the Hill Country. In the Hill Country, music isn't just a pasttime, it's a way of life. |  | The Buckhorn Saloon opened in downtown San Antonio 1881, with owners Albert and Emile Friedrich. As San Antonio grew, so did the Buckhorn's collection of animals and oddities. In 1956, the Lone Star Brewing Company purchased the collection and moved it to the Lone Star Buckhorn Hall of Horns, adjacent to their brewery. | POPULAR CITIES:
SAN ANTONIO
ROUND ROCK
NEW BRAUNFELS
GEORGETOWN
CEDAR PARK
| | Visit the Hill Country community. |
| About Houston: Spend just one full weekend catching live music in H-Town and you'll discover that the city has a musical vibe all its own. |  | John Milkovisch began decorating his patio with pieces of brass, marbles, rocks and buttons. Then he tore up the lawn and replaced it with similar glittery debris. The house itself was next. John took beer cans and flattened them into aluminum siding..Beer cans quickly became John's exclusive medium -- a convenient one, since John drank a lot of beer. He worked on his Houston home for the next 18 years, incorporating a six-pack a day into its adornment -- roughly 39,000 cans. | POPULAR CITIES:
HOUSTON
PASADENA
SPRING
KATY
HUMBLE
| | Visit the Houston community. |
| About North Texas: Sometimes referred to as "Texoma", you're north of DFW, but still on the south side of the Red River. |  | The Texas Alien Cemetary is located in Aurora, just off US 287 west of Rhome heading toward Bridgeport (near Fort Worth). The small community is supposedly the burial site of a crashed space alien pilot who apparently slammed into a local windmill in the late 1800s. So convincing (or well known) was the story that the Texas Highway Department erected a historical marker near the cemetery where the "creature" is said to be buried. | POPULAR CITIES:
DENTON
PLANO
WICHITA FALLS
LEWISVILLE
FLOWER MOUND
| | Visit the North Texas community. |
| About Panhandle: "The closest I'll ever get to heaven is making speed up ol' 87" - Terry Allen. The panhandle of Texas is the wind-blown birthplace of many Texas Music legends. |  | Stanley Marsh's Cadillac Ranch on the outskirts of Amarillo. | POPULAR CITIES:
AMARILLO
LUBBOCK
PLAINVIEW
BORGER
CANYON
| | Visit the Panhandle community. |
| About Piney Woods: But you might call it East Texas. Just because squirrel is on the menu doesn't mean the folks are backwoods. This is currently one of the fastest growing areas for live Texas Music in the state. |  | There's some woods and I think I see a pine or two. Voila! the Piney Woods. | POPULAR CITIES:
TYLER
LONGVIEW
TEXARKANA
LUFKIN
NACOGDOCHES
| | Visit the Piney Woods community. |
| About Prairies & Lakes: Some of the best fishing and hunting in the state of Texas can be found here as well as great Texas Music (of course). |  | Texas has 115 prisons; six of them are in Huntsville.Billboards along the city's highways invite motorists to pursue careers as guards. The city's Prison Driving Tour winds past every jail and the prison cemetery. But its first stop is north of town, on Hwy. 75, at the brand-new, 10,000 sq. ft. Texas Prison Museum (which moved and expanded from it storefront roost downtown in late 2002). | POPULAR CITIES:
CONROE
HUNTSVILLE
SPRING
CORSICANA
MAGNOLIA
| | Visit the Prairies & Lakes community. |
| About South Texas: There's nothing quite like watching some live music while downing some cold cerveza in a border town dive. |  | Can you see this South Padre Island sign and not start humming a Robert Earl Keen tune? We didn't think so. | POPULAR CITIES:
LAREDO
MCALLEN
BROWNSVILLE
HARLINGEN
EDINBURG
| | Visit the South Texas community. |
| About West Texas: "On a clear day in West Texas, you can see to Arizona. And if you stand on top of a tuna can you can see the back of your head." - Terry Allen |  | If you took all of the wind energy generated in Nolan County, it would currently rank as the seventh largest "nation" in the world in terms of wind energy generation. | POPULAR CITIES:
MIDLAND
ABILENE
ODESSA
SAN ANGELO
DEL RIO
| | Visit the West Texas community. |
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| About LSM Communities |
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Each member of LoneStarMusic can be a part
of three different communities. When you first
signup for an account, you're automatically a
member of the TEXAS community. Why else would
you be here? Then you're also automatically a
member of a second community based on where you
live.
The third community is up to you. Maybe
you grew up in Amarillo, but now you live in Houston.
Choose the Panhandle community to keep up with
what's going on there. Maybe you live in Midland
but will be going to school in Waco soon. Choose
Central Texas as your third community to learn
a little about the area before your move. Maybe
you just want to pick Austin because it's the
live music capitol of the world. Go for it, it's
up to you.
Of course, you'll always be able to see what's
going on in all of the communties on LoneStarMusic,
but you'll only be able to contribute to the
communities that you are a member of. We'll
be adding on new features all of the time so be
sure to pick one where you feel you can add to
the discussion of the Texas Music scene in that
area.
To the left are quick descriptions, a sample
image, and some popular cities from the communities
you have to choose from. Also feel free to
check out each of these more in depth by clicking
on the appropriate link.
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