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South by Southwest (SXSW) Drops Third Round of Musical Acts for 2024 Festival – Glide Magazine
The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced the third round of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 38th annual event. The festival features one-of-a-kind music showcases from rising talents and renowned artists from around the world performing in front of industry professionals, influencers, press and a multitude of engaged fans who have a passion for music discovery. The first event on every music industry professional’s calendar, the SXSW Music Festival takes place March 11-16, 2024.
SXSW Music Festival programmers present the best in eclectic and acclaimed artists offering a unique opportunity for national and international exposure. Artists in this announcement hail from Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Third round highlights include Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA), The Black Keys (Akron OH), Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND), Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH), Boza (Panama PANAMA), Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA), Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND), Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA), GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN), J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC), Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA), Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND), Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA), Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN), Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL), Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA), Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND), Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO), Scowl (Santa Cruz CA), SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN), STRFKR (Portland OR), and Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY).
Spanning six nights, Music Festival showcases are curated by SXSW programmers in collaboration with record labels, booking agencies, export offices, management and PR firms, publishers, media outlets, lifestyle brands and festivals. These showcases give attendees the opportunity to experience today’s and tomorrow’s headliners in Austin’s iconic and offbeat venues. Showcase presenters include: Adult Decisions, All The Vibes, ATC Live, Athens In Austin, Atomic Music Group, BBC Introducing, Beyond the Music Manchester, Big Picture Media, Billboard, BIRP.fm, Breakout West, The Broadside Hacks Folk Club, CareFreeBlackGirl, Chicken Ranch Records, Chopstars. City Slang, CLASH Music, Classical Unlocked, The Color Agent, Crosstown Concerts, Dear Life Records, Dedstrange, Deezer, Don Giovanni Records, Double Denim, End of the Trail, Everything RnB, Fair Enough PR, Father/Daughter Records, Fierce Panda, Flatspot Records, FOCUS Wales, Folk Alliance International, Friends from the East Festival, FRIENDSHIP., Future Classic, Gar Hole Records, Give A Note Foundation, Houndstooth, Iceland Music, Island Wave, Italia Music Export, Italians Do It Better, Gorilla vs. Bear, High Road Touring, Indie Shuffle, Initiative Musik, Jaded, Jazz Re:Freshed, KUTX The Breaks, LICKS Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Loyalty Firm, M for Montreal, Mint Talent Group, Monster Child, Mothland, Music from Ireland, Music Website, MUTEK, Nerdcore, New West Records, NIVA, NoiseCo, Now Wave, Paper Bag Records, Penny Loafer PR, POP Montreal, Post Electric Artists, PlantWave, Reeperbahn Festival, Roskilde Festival, Ramp Local, Range Magazine, Rhythm n Vibes, Rolling Stone, School Night, Selector Radio, So Recordings, The Smoke Out, Sofar Sounds, Space Agency, The Spanish Wave, Synásthesie Festival, Taiwan Beats, Tiger Bomb Promo, Tokyo Calling, Traffic Music, Trucha Soul, Violet House, WeFoundNewMusic, We Were Never Being Boring, Wide Days Scotland, and WOMEX.
The third round of artists invited to perform include:
Acantha Lang (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ada Oda (Brussels BELGIUM)
Adriana McCassim (Los Angeles CA)
AHI (Brampton CANADA)
airu (Bilbao SPAIN)
The Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet (Austin TX)
Alice Ivy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Alisa Amador (Boston MA)
Alix Fernz (Montreal CANADA)
Allan Harris (New York NY)
Allegra Krieger (New York NY)
Altameda (Toronto CANADA)
Amber Lang (Willingboro NJ)
Amiture (New York NY)
Andrew Gould (Queens NY)
Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA)
Ankur Tewari (Mumbai INDIA)
A’Rise (Sun-El Musician, Kay Faith, Kooldrink) (Mooi River SOUTH AFRICA)
Arny Margret (Ísafjörður ICELAND)
Asha Jefferies (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Ashley Kutcher (Baltimore MD)
Aubrey Haddard (Brooklyn NY)
Aurora D’Amico (Palermo ITALY)
Ayoni (Los Angeles CA)
Babe Corner (Vancouver CANADA)
BackDrop Cinderella (Tokyo JAPAN)
Bebo Dumont (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
The Belair Lip Bombs (Frankston AUSTRALIA)
Ben Buck (Austin TX)
Ben Kweller (Dripping Springs TX)
Bia Ferreira (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Big Dumb Baby (Brooklyn NY)
Big Jade (Beaumont TX)
Big Wy’s Brass Band (Austin TX)
Big Zeeks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Billy Allen + The Pollies (Muscle Shoals AL)
The Black Keys (Akron OH)
Blakchyl (Austin TX)
Blaketheman1000 (Los Angeles CA)
Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND)
Blue Water Highway (Austin TX)
BODUR (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bones and Jones (Geelong AUSTRALIA)
Bonnie Montgomery (Fayetteville AR)
Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH)
Boza (Panama PANAMA)
Brad Byrd (Los Angeles CA)
breathe. (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Brie Stoner (Grand Rapids MI)
Bubble Tea and Cigarettes (New York NY)
Buggin (Chicago IL)
Byron Juane (Charlotte NC)
C4 (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Cactus Lee (Austin TX)
Caleb De Casper (Austin TX)
Cale Tyson (Los Angeles CA)
Cameron Romance (Los Angeles CA)
Cardinals (Cork IRELAND)
Carpetman (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Cassadee Pope (West Palm Beach FL)
Chance Emerson (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA)
Chelsea Days (Oklahoma City OK)
ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Kawasaki JAPAN)
Chih Siou (Taipei TAIWAN)
Chinese American Bear (Seattle WA)
Chioke (Philadelphia PA)
Chris Acker (New Orleans LA)
Chris Patrick (East Orange NJ)
Cloudchord (Austin TX)
Clover County (Athens GA)
COASTCITY (Miami FL)
College of Hip Hop Knowledge (Austin TX)
Corridor (Montreal CANADA)
Cotton Mather (Austin TX)
Couch Prints (New York NY)
The Courettes (Mariager DENMARK)
Crabe (Montreal CANADA)
Creekbed Carter Hogan (Austin TX)
Crys Matthews (Nashville TN)
Cuffed Up (Los Angeles CA)
Curtis McMurtry (Austin TX)
DAIISTAR (Austin TX)
Daisy Rickman (Penzance UK-ENGLAND)
Dale Hollow (New York NY)
Dani D y Franky (Miami FL)
Dani Gurgel & Debora Gurgel (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Danxgerous (Rome ITALY)
Day By Day (South Florida FL)
DBMK (Tampa FL)
Deer Fellow (Austin TX)
Def-i (Albuquerque NM)
Dende (Katy TX)
Desiree Cannon (Jenner CA)
The Deslondes (New Orleans LA)
Die Slo (Austin TX)
The Dinosaur’s Skin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Dj Napalm (Austin TX)
Doohickey Cubicle (Vancouver CANADA)
Dual Core (Austin TX)
DV-i (New York NY)
DVTR (Montreal CANADA)
Dyce (Leuven BELGIUM)
Dylan Earl (Fayetteville AR)
Eliza McLamb (Los Angeles CA)
Embla and the Karidotters (Bergen NORWAY)
End It (Baltimore MD)
Enji (Munich GERMANY)
The Eric Hisaw Band (Austin TX)
Erykah Officer (Miami FL)
Ethan Tasch (Menlo Park CA)
Eva Westphal (New York NY)
EyeQ (Brooklyn TX)
Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND)
The fin. (Kobe JAPAN)
FLEWNT & INKABEE (Perth AUSTRALIA)
FLWRSHRK (Bronx NY)
Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA)
Font (Austin TX)
FOXCULT (Seattle WA)
Foyer Red (Brooklyn NY)
Frances Chang (Brooklyn NY)
Friend (Philadelphia PA)
Gabby’s World (New York NY)
GameboyJones (Kent OH)
gglum (London UK-ENGLAND)
GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN)
Grace Pettis (Nashville TN)
Greg Freeman (Burlington VT)
grimelda (Saskatoon CANADA)
Gummy B (Taipei TAIWAN)
Hanorah (Montreal CANADA)
Helsinki Lambda Club (Tokyo JAPAN)
Hembree (Lawrence MO)
High. (Boonton NJ)
His His (Toronto CANADA)
Hollows (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Hotel Mira (Vancouver CANADA)
HUSHMONEY (Los Angeles CA)
The Ian Fays (San Francisco CA)
If I Die In Mississippi (Gulfport MS)
Ila Barker (Winnipeg CANADA)
Indian Giver (Toronto CANADA)
ISMAY (Petaluma CA)
Ivoris (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Jack Van Cleaf (Encinitas CA)
Jason Calhoun (Philadelphia PA)
Jaz Dhami (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Jeff Lofton (Austin TX)
Jess Cornelius (Los Angeles CA)
JET THE 3RD (Houston TX)
Jhama (Vidigal BRAZIL)
J. Isaiah Evans & The Boss Tweed (Dallas TX)
JJ Shiplett (Calgary CANADA)
J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Jobi Riccio (Nashville TN)
Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA)
John Roseboro (Brooklyn NY)
JOSEON (Los Angeles CA)
Joudy (Brooklyn NY)
JPerry (Port-Au-Prince HAITI)
J Soulja (Austin TX)
JW Francis (Sapulpa OK)
Kadesh Flow (Kansas City MO)
Kaitlin Butts (Tulsa OK)
Kalamari (San Antonio TX)
Kaleah Lee (Vancouver CANADA)
Kalpee (Lange Park TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Keenan Te (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Kharma (Chicago IL)
Kierst (Brooklyn NY)
King Nun (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kiss Bang (Los Angeles CA)
Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Kolb (Brooklyn NY)
koleżanka (New York NY)
kudaranai1nichi (Tokyo JAPAN)
K.Williams (Tacoma WA)
Lady Apple Tree (Los Angeles CA)
La Gallo 3:20 (Monterrey MEXICO)
Lamont Landers (Decatur AL)
Laney Jones (Nashville TN)
Latir (London UK-ENGLAND)
Laveda (Brooklyn NY)
Lev Snowe (Winnipeg CANADA)
LEX the Lexicon Artist (Taipei TAIWAN)
Liam Benzvi (New York NY)
Liam St. John (Spokane WA)
LIE NING (Berlin GERMANY)
Life’s Question (Philadelphia PA)
Life In Vacuum (Toronto CANADA)
Light Beams (Washington DC)
Limbo (San Francisco CA)
Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Lisa Morgenstern (Berlin GERMANY)
Little Wilderness (Durango CO)
Lizzie & The Makers (Brooklyn NY)
Los Choclok (Cosoleacaque MEXICO)
LOS KEMET (Jackson MS)
Lost Bayou Ramblers (Lafayette LA)
The Lostines (New Orleans LA)
Lucaa (Washington DC)
Lucky Lo (Copenhagen DENMARK)
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) (Northampton MA)
Luna Aura (Nashville TN)
Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN)
luvis (Tokyo JAPAN)
Lxandra (Helsinki FINLAND)
Madeleine Mayi (Los Angeles CA)
Madeline Goldstein (Los Angeles CA)
Madison Baker (Austin TX)
Majin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Malin Pettersen (Oslo NORWAY)
Mali Velasquez (Nashville TN)
Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Marissa Burwell (Regina CANADA)
Mary Scholz (Los Angeles CA)
Mary Shelley (Brooklyn NY)
Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA)
MC LARS (San Francisco CA)
MDUKE (San Antonio TX)
Medusa (New York NY)
Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers (Nashville TN)
Me Nd Adam (Austin TX)
Merce Lemon (Pittsburgh PA)
Merv xx Gotti (Regina CANADA)
Midnight Navy (Austin TX)
Mikaela Monet (Valencia VENEZUELA)
Mina Okabe (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Mind Shrine (Houston TX)
Miranda Joan (Montréal CANADA)
Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND)
Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
Moon Walker (New York NY)
MOTO BANDIT (Nashville TN)
My Education (Austin TX)
Myrkvi (Mosfellsbær ICELAND)
Natalie Price (Austin TX)
Native Sun (Brooklyn NY)
Nawf Lxrds (Waco TX)
Nick Finzer (Denton TX)
Night Drive (Austin TX)
N Nao (Montreal CANADA)
Noah And The Loners (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Nonô (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Nur-D (Minneapolis MN)
Nyssa (Toronto CANADA)
Office Dog (Aukland NEW ZEALAND)
Ohm-I (Kansas City MO)
Ok Cowgirl (Brooklyn NY)
Old Heavy Hands (Greensboro NC)
The Oxys (Austin TX)
The Past Lives (Austin TX)
Peelander-Z (Austin TX)
The Peevie Wonders (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PEGGY (Ann Arbor MI)
Pendulum Hearts (Austin TX)
Philip Labes (Los Angeles CA)
PIAO (Toronto CANADA)
Pierce Washington (Dallas TX)
pimpawatb (Baltimore MD)
Poise (New York NY)
Pony Girl (Ottawa-Hull CANADA)
PRINCE AMINE (Montréal CANADA)
Programmique (Brooklyn NY)
Proper. (Brooklyn NY)
Provoker (Los Angeles CA)
Prowess The Testament (Washington DC)
Purple Bee Experience (Volente TX)
QUANNA (Savannah GA)
Rachel Rose (Brooklyn NY)
Rain on Fridays (San Diego CA)
Ray$av (New Orleans LA)
Remo Drive (Minneapolis MN)
Restos (Austin TX)
Reyna Tropical (McAllen TX)
RIP Dunes (Brooklyn NY)
Robert Grace (Kilkenny IRELAND)
Rose Hotel (Atlanta GA)
SANITY (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Sara Parigi (Prato ITALY)
Schatzi (Austin TX)
Scowl (Santa Cruz CA)
Scuttino (Dallas TX)
Searows (Portland OR)
The Sewing Club (Nashville TN)
Shallow Alcove (New York NY)
Shalom (Fairfax VA)
Shannon and the Clams (Oakland CA)
Shubzilla x Bill Beats (Seattle WA)
Six Missing (Austin TX)
SkyBlew (Chapel Hill NC)
Slow Fiction (Brooklyn NY)
SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN)
Songer (Reading UK-ENGLAND)
Sophia Galaté (Los Angeles CA)
The South Hill Experiment (Los Angeles CA)
Space Goonz (Austin TX)
Spoon Benders (Los Angeles CA)
Star Parks (Austin TX)
Stereo Jane (Los Angeles CA)
Storey Littleton (Woodstock NY)
STRAWBERRY LAUNCH (New York NY)
STRFKR (Portland OR)
Sugadaisy (Nashville TN)
Sunnsetter (Hamilton CANADA)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
SWEET SPINE (Greenville SC)
SWIDT (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Taija Kerr (Austin TX)
Tami Hart (Brooklyn NY)
Telescreens (New York NY)
Tempers (New York NY)
TENN (Sheffield UK-ENGLAND)
Tetchy (Brooklyn NY)
Thelonious Love (Houston TX)
Therapy? (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
There Go My Baby (San Antonio TX)
Thomas Hinds (Cartersville GA)
Tiffany Poon (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Tino Martinez Quintet (Hamilton BERMUDA)
Tonina (St. Louis MO)
Totalement Sublime (Montréal CANADA)
Trinket (Brooklyn NY)
Una Canción Bonita (Tuxtla Gutiérrez MEXICO)
Utley3 (Austin TX)
VAPERROR (Brooklyn NY)
Vertarias (Austin TX)
Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY)
WAKE (Calgary CANADA)
West 22nd (Austin TX)
Wez Atlas (Tokyo JAPAN)
WifeKnife (Brooklyn NY)
William Singe (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Willow Parlo (Hamburg GERMANY)
wilt (Los Angeles CA)
Wishy (Indianapolis IN)
Wonderly (Portland OR)
Wreck The System (Temple Hills MD)
X Ambassadors (Ithaca NY)
XAV (Roxborough TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
xJermsx (New York NY)
Yayoi Daimon (Osaka JAPAN)
Yung D3mz (Accra GHANA)
Zach Person (Austin TX)
ZADA (Whistler CANADA)
Zay.Peace (Wichita Falls TX)
Zitah (London UK-ENGLAND)
(This list is subject to change. More performers will be announced at later dates.)
Austin, TX
Texas I-35 high-speed rail proposal is put into motion by lawmakers
AUSTIN, Texas – Austin lawmakers are putting a proposal in motion that has been in the works for years; plans to build a high-speed rail on I-35.
The goal of House Bill 483 is to connect Dallas, Austin, and San António, using high-speed rail.
“The excitement and enthusiasm around this bill has been kind of overwhelming. I am surprised how much everyone is paying attention to it. I’m excited and encouraged. I think Texas is a booming state, with a booming economy, but we are far behind infrastructure options for residents,” says State Representative House District 136 John Bucy.
House Bill 483 submitted by lawmakers in Austin spells out plans for a high-speed rail expected to reach speeds of 110 miles per hour, connecting Dallas to Austin to San Antonio along interstate 35.
“The interconnection of these major hubs that we are all traveling all the time would benefit our day-to-day lives. It is a way to a different mobility of travel then flying or driving in a car, it would be faster than driving in a car it would be safer. Many years ago, Rick Perry had plans to add more lanes and add a train up the I-35 corridor. We are not doing enough for infrastructure, and it needs to get done,” says Bucy.
Last year, Travis County Commissioner’s Court Judge Andy Brown met with officials in Bexar County to discuss the possibility of a passenger rail between Austin and San Antonio, pending an environmental study.
Mayor Watson also highlighted opportunities for developing an inner-city passenger rail to congress, in November 2023.
This year, The Texas Passenger Rail Advisory Committee discussed plans to add a high-speed passenger train along the corridor between Austin, San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico.
This month, State Senator Sarah Eckhardt joined in efforts to get house bill 483 passed.
“This is going to be a long process. We are going to try to get this bill by first continuing to raise awareness, asking for a hearing in committee that won’t be until February or march at the earliest, so that process will be beginning, committee hearings and then hopefully we can continue to build support for it,” says Bucy.
According to the bill, high-speed rail would be constructed through state funds.
“What we are doing is directing the Texas Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement so they would have a bid process, people would make their bids for building and maintaining this line, so it would be like public private partnership,” says Bucy.
Rep. John Bucy says the goal is to get the bill to the governor’s desk.
“I know the governor loves to talk about Texas’s innovation and moving forward I would think a new high-speed mobility would be right up his alley,” says Bucy.
The bill would take effect in September 2025 if it is passed.
Austin, TX
Texas Supreme Court overturns ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in lawsuit
(AP) – The Texas Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that state Attorney General Ken Paxton testify in a whistleblower lawsuit at the heart of impeachment charges brought against him in 2023.
The court on Friday said Paxton’s office does not dispute any issue in the lawsuit by four former Paxton employees and agreed to any judgment in the case.
“In a major win for the State of Texas, the state Supreme Court has sided with Attorney General Paxton against former OAG employees whose effort to prolong costly, politically-motivated litigation against the agency has wasted public resources for years,” a statement from Paxton’s office said.
An attorney for one of the plaintiffs declined immediate comment, and a second attorney did not immediately return a phone call for comment.
The former employees allege they were improperly fired or forced out for bringing to the FBI allegations that Paxton was misusing his office to protect a friend and campaign donor, who in turn, they said, was helping the attorney general to conceal an extramarital affair.
The Supreme Court ruling noted that the Texas governor and Legislature have expressed a desire to hear testimony from the witnesses prior to agreeing to appropriate funds to settle the lawsuit.
The court said forcing Paxton, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, Chief of Staff Lesley French Henneke and senior advisor Michelle Smith to testify earlier could improperly be used for legislative purposes in deciding any appropriation.
Under the preliminary deal, Paxton agreed to apologize to the former employees for calling them “rogue” employees, settle the case for $3.3 million and ask the state to pay for it, prompting the state House to reject the request and begin its own investigation, leading to the vote to impeach him.
Paxton was ultimately acquitted after a Senate trial.
The Supreme Court termed its ruling conditional upon the lower trial court complying with the decision, while saying it is “confident the trial court will comply” with the order.
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Austin, TX
This Texas city ranks among 10 best to live in the US. See full list, how others scored
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A Texas city has been named among the top ten U.S. cities to live in over the next two years.
Ten Texas cities were included in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Places to Live list. For the annual rankings, U.S. News analyzed 150 major cities in the U.S. based on quality of life, job market, value of living and people’s desire to live in the area.
How did your city fare on the list? Here’s a breakdown of the data.
LIST: 10 best US cities to live
Texas’ capital secured a spot in the top 10 places to live, as determined by U.S. News.
- Naples, Florida
- Boise, Idaho
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Greenville, South Carolina
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Huntsville, Alabama
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Austin, Texas
- Boulder, Colorado
Austin offers healthy balance of work and pleasure, US News says
Austin had an overall score of 6.8 out of 10, compared to Naples’ score of 7.1. The Texas capital also scored 6.8 in the quality of life index, with a value index score of 6.3.
“With the slogan ‘Keep Austin Weird,’ this Texas city is laid-back to the point that if you’re dressing up, it must be a life event,” the U.S. News analysis says. “People here enjoy the outdoors, even more so with their dogs. Austin has a contagious vibrancy and enthusiasm.”
U.S. News notes Austin’s strongest assets are a mix of work and pleasure. The number of companies headquartered in Austin makes it attractive to working professionals, especially those in technology, government, education, and health care. But the capital is far from being “all work, no play.” Its claim as the live music capital of the world invites music lovers to take a listen, whether at the airport, along streets downtown, or at one of the approximate 200 venues throughout the area.
Austin also ranked no. 32 on U.S. News’ Best Places to Retire in 2025 list.
LIST: Best Texas cities to live
Here are the rankings and scores U.S. News gave for the ten Texas cities included in the list:
Ranking
City
Overall Score
Quality of Life
Value Index
#9
Austin
6.8
6.8
6.3
#48
McAllen
6.4
6.6
7.6
#62
El Paso
6.3
6.5
7.3
#77
Corpus Christi
6.2
5.8
7.0
#87
Brownsville
6.2
6.2
7.7
#89
San Antonio
6.1
6.1
6.8
#95
Dallas
6.1
6.4
5.6
#97
Houston
6.1
5.9
6.2
#99
Beaumont
6.1
5.5
7.3
#107
Killeen
6.0
5.9
7.3
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