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Here is this week's feature:

Austin's Best Fwends talk about their buddies behind their backs

In "Scene Stir" Paper Thin Walls talks to a band we love about the local musicians that they love.

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Are there too many bands in Austin for any sort of unified music scene?

It's a very mixed up scene, like a high school where everyone gets along. Except in reality, high school students can only get into shows at a few places. The bar scene still controls downtown Austin, so the real places to play are record stores, pizza places or house parties.

Do you—and the bands you picked—have your own carved out sub-scene?

Yeah, definitely—I mean, we personally don't really fit in anywhere, so I wouldn't say we're part of any sort of "scene." But between all of our friends there is a nice network of really diverse bands. So when we play a show, it's with four other bands that are all incredible and completely different. There are people doing good things outside the 21-and-up bar scene. Our friend Jug has a record store called Sound On Sound and he has awesome shows there all the time.

Most people know Austin just through what it's like during SXSW. What is it like there, music and venue wise, during the other 50 weeks of the year?

One thing that remains constant is that many shows are 21-and-up. During SXSW we had to set up a show behind a train station—"illegally"—so that kids could actually see the cool bands. But generally it's the same. On weekends, cops still put roadblocks at intersections so drunk people don't get run over. I guess there aren't huge free shows. Oh, and the music sucks. The real fun stuff doesn't happen downtown anyway.

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