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KUT Morning Newscast for July 31, 2025: Texas Republicans have released a proposed map to redraw the state’s congressional districts

Central Texas top stories for July 31, 2025. Texas Republicans have released a proposed map to redraw the state’s congressional districts. The City of Austin plans to pass its budget within the next few weeks. The organizers of Austin’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival say they’re facing a funding shortfall this year. One of Austin’s best-kept parking secrets will disappear in the coming weeks.

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KUT Morning Newscast for August 9, 2024

Central Texas top stories for August 9, 2024. National Weather Service extends local heat advisory for third straight day. Austin Pride and Festival takes to downtown this weekend. The AISD school board moves closer to deciding whether to ask voters to approve a new tax rate in November to help plug funding gaps, while the district works to fill its teacher vacancies ahead of the new school year. The annual Texas sales tax holiday takes place this weekend. RFK Jr. will appear on Texas ballots this fall.

KindKeith: “EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE” (feat. 8bit_gf)

Happy Pride Month! As an advocate, it’s beyond encouraging to hear so many openly Queer Austinites sharing their art, spreading the love, and scoring pretty good opportunities here in our fair city. In that respect, we’ve got a live show recommendation to kick off June in proper form. It comes on behalf of singer-producer KindKeith, who first emerged with their 2019 single “Veronica’s Mom”. KindKeith’s sound has since matured over the course of two EPs and one full-length, cementing a genre-fluid, drizzled-in-synth style that sits somewhere between Thundercat and SiR. Picking up where last summer’s DON’T TALK TO ME >:( left off, KindKeith recently teamed up with Austin’s 8bit_gf for kind of a sonic curveball compared with prior expectations. While 8bit_gf’s debut streaming single “4NG3L W 4 9UN” basks in between hyperpop and drum n bass and KindKeith’s last EP leans on laid back grooves, EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE cranks the beat repeat effect way up to carve a glitchy niche outside KindKeith’s trademark R&B. The pair celebrate with a release show tomorrow night at Swan Dive; 8bit_gf gets it started at 9:30 followed by Yonah B and EddieAngel before KindKeith wraps things up just after midnight. Til then, enjoy the start of June with a tune inspired by mutual early-twenties struggles with sexuality and gender identity. Between its unorthodox triplet percussion, 8bit_gf’s pitched up pipes and some extra glittery guitar that engorges before grinding the whole song to a halt, “EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE” is a modern waltz of frustration, revelation, and acceptance.

KUT Morning Newscast for August 19, 2022

Central Texas top stories for August 19, 2022. Travis County’s COVID-19 Community Level now Low. AISD student attendance. Free rides to cooling centers. Taylor Cemetery’s historic designation. Austin’s Pride Parade and Festival. Austin FC v Minnesota United.