SXSW 2016 came and went. We did a preview episode. Now we recap the festival with Micco and Lane with stories, reviews, rants:

• How we prepared, Domination Team (260+ SXSW goers in GroupMe);
• ATX Startup Crawl: Atlassian, Blacklocus,

SXSW is right around corner. Festival experts Micco, Lane, Boris Wright (who’s worked SXSW for 19 years) join the podcast to share tips, insights, and stories:

• How to prepare for SXSW: RSVPster, SXSW Domination Team on GroupMe,

Matt Ford, Lauren Bruno, and Adrian Tavares introduce Solstive Live, a online booking platform that helps artists find venues and venues find artists:

• Their connection to Austin,
• The Solstice Festival, From France to the US,
• How they
  

Happy New Year! For the first show of 2016, Micco joins to talk about:

• New Year’s Eve and the hype;
• Uber and transportation woes;
• Sheena 2.0 and her friend Marcia call in;
• Events and places to look forward to in 2016:
  • Carnaval Brasileiro on
    

Our returning champions Sheena Simmons and Ekwhoa help me review 2015 and preview New Year’s Eve:

• Recap of The Feedbak 5 Year Anniversary at Vulcan Gas Company;
• Best parties of the year;
• Lessons from 2015;
• West 6th vs Eastside vs Dirty 6th vs Warehouse District;

Ter’ell Shahid is a musician, songwriter, producer, real-estate agent, CEO of Urbanian Entertainment, and has been in Austin music scene since he was a teenager:

• His musical background and learning the instruments;
• Austin back in the day as music heaven with the agencies and mentors;
• Going
  

Marc Piatkowski is co-owner of Vulcan Gas Company, a state-of-the-art music venue on 6th Street:

• Moving to Austin and getting into the bar industry;
• The importance of sound at a venue;
• Choosing the electronic music as a format;
• Acquiring the name of Vulcan Gas Company from
  

Jennifer Houlihan is the Executive Director at Austin Music People (AMP). Bobby Garza is the General Manager at Transmission Events and Chair of the Executive Committee at AMP. We discuss the state of Austin as a music city:

• Why we need organizations
  

Henry + The Invisibles is a one man phunk band. We talk about:

• Winning Battle of the Bands at Mohawk sponsored by Mattress Firm
• His love for music and early bands;
• Transitioning from one instrument to the next then to vocals;
• The birth of

Danny “D-Train” Trevino, Manny Fresco, and Carleen Nicole wrote, produced, and directed 6th Street SINderella, a short film and romantic comedy that flips the script on the Disney and The Brothers Grimm versions:

• Brainstorming at a bar (and after-party)
• Writing, casting,