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The new season of Pause/Play starts on April 17th. This season is all about change. We’ll be looking at the impact that climate change, changes in laws, changes in ticketing, changes in venues, changes in tech, and more are having on the Austin music scene.
The full transcript of this episode of Pause/Play is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.
Miles Bloxson I’m Miles Bloxson.
Elizabeth McQueen And I’m Elizabeth McQueen, and we are back with season five of Pause/Play
Miles Bloxson Like we never left. This season is all about change, changes in the law.
Lizzy Lehman There’s a general sense of unease for a lot of my friends and for myself. For those who are in the LGBTQ community.
Miles Bloxson Climate change.
David Yeomans We used to average 15 triple digit days per year, 15 days per summer when we hit 100 or higher. Now we average over the last 30 years, 29 of them. We’ve already doubled our average 100 degree day count. And how how many do we have last summer? 8100 degree days?
Miles Bloxson Ticket prices?
Mellie Price I remember one of the first box offices I worked was Insane Clown Posse. And, you know, I think it was a $35 ticket and we had like a $3.50 service charge roughly, which was a lot less than the ten or so dollars that were being charged by Ticketmaster and other ticket entities.
Miles Bloxson I mean, the list goes on. Really?
Elizabeth McQueen Yeah. And we’re going to look at how all these changes impact the Austin music scene.
Miles Bloxson The new season starts on April 17th, but you can catch up on all the seasons at KUT.org Or wherever you get your podcasts.
This transcript was transcribed by AI, and lightly edited by a human. Accuracy may vary. This text may be revised in the future.
