Welcome to the Texas Music Office
The Texas Music Office serves as the information clearinghouse and promotion office for the Texas music industry. This site contains 19,234 business, band or event listings totaling 3,669 printed pages. In 2011, it attracted 212,244 unique visitors resulting in 461,320 page views.
P.O. Box 13246 Austin, Texas 78711
512.463.6666; fax 512.463.4114
State Insurance Building, Suite 3.418
1100 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701
music [at] governor.state.tx.us
http://EnjoyTexasMusic.com/
http://governor.state.tx.us/music/
Casey J. Monahan, Director
Marc Fort, Publications Coordinator
Stephen Ray, Office Manager
Fellowship Interns: Michael Arase, Alyssa Berger, Ashley Buenrostro, Ruth Griffin, Morgan Schlesinger
I. About the TMO (124 pages)
1. History and Purpose
2. Publications
3. La Oficina de Música de Tejas
4. TMO Internships
5. Texas Law and Music (incl. 19 city sound ordinances)
6. State of Texas Music Industry
7. What is it about Texas Music
8. Donations to the Texas Music Office THANK YOU!
9. REQUEST INFORMATION
10. Other US music offices
11. Staff
II. Music Business Referral Network (1,546 pages)
1. A to Z Texas Music Businesses
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2. Attorneys (251)
3. Booking Agents (382)
4. CD/DVD Duplication (127)
5. Live Music Venues (1,154)
6. Music Publishers (276)
7. Musical Instrument Businesses (712)
8. Organizations (381)
9. Publicists (222)
10. Record Distributors (76)
11. Record Labels (526)
12. Record Stores (349)
13. Recording Studios and Mastering (819)
14. Rehearsal Studios (50)
15. Sound Reinforcement (236)
16. How to list your business here
17. How to list your venue here
18. How to list your band here
19. How to list radio stations here
III. Music Education (244 pages)
1. Colleges / Universities (143)
2. Libraries / Archives (67)
3. Handbook of Texas Music
4. Texas Music Bibliography (606)
(500 + books and scholarly articles)
Fundraising Bibliography (71)
5. Mariachi Education (100)
(Texas secondary school Mariachi education)
6. Young Masters grant
7. TX Commission on the Arts TX Music Project
8. Foundation Libraries
IV. Events Calendar (150 pages)
January - December (776)
Numbers listed in parenthesis refer to the number of listings in each section.
Buy a Texas Music License plate
Texas Live Music Grant (New!)
This weekend in live Texas music
Texas music tourism events • Texas music tourism attractions
Sales Tax Exemptions Available to Texas Record Producers
TMO Website of the Day: University of North Texas Music Library
TMO Video of the Day:
Bobby Fuller - Love's Made A Fool Of You (1965)
Texas music in the news via: Bing •
Google •
Yahoo
Texas music in the blogs via: Google •
Icerocket
Texas bands in the blogs via: Icerocket
V. Texas Music History Tour (225 pages)
1. Music Pioneers (592)
2. Halls of Fame, Museums, Libraries (67)
3. Venues open before 1980 (130)
4. Other music tourism sites
5. Country Hall of Fame (21)
6. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (13)
7. Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (11)
8. Grammy Hall of Fame, Legends, Achievement (42)
9. Songwriters Halls of Fame (41)
10. BMI Million-Airs (127)
11. Cowboy, Cowgirl & Swing Halls of Fame (48)
12. Texas Music Pioneer Birthdays (448)
13. Buddy Holly Walk of Fame (33)
14. Austin Chronicle Music Poll Hall of Fame (99)
15. Texas Country Music Hall of Fame (35)
16. Tejano Roots Hall of Fame (47)
17. Medal of Art Honorees & State Musicians (17)
18. West Texas Music Hall of Fame "Honor Roll of Vocalists"
19. Tejano Walk of Fame
20. Austin Music Memorial
21. Texas Heritage Songwriters' Collection
22. National Recording Registry
23. South Texas Music Walk of Fame
24. Kennedy Center Honors
25. International Gospel Music Hall of Fame
26. Texas Radio Hall of Fame
27. Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
28. BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century
VI. Musicians (250 pages)
1. Texas Talent Register A-Z
(8,195 Texas musical acts)
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2. Mariachi Talent (82)
3. Classical Talent (160)
4. Grammy Winners (138 winners; 283 awards)
5. 54th Grammy Winners (5 awards)
6. 54th Grammy Nominees
7. Americana Music Awards Winners (New)
VII. Business Guides (253 pages)
1. Available Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
2. TABC Regulations & Tax Requirements for Venues / Special Events
3. Creating a Presskit
4. Getting Started in Entertainment Law
5. Guide to Music-related Insurance
6. Copyrights / Trademarks
7. Books/Publications - Suggested Reading
8. Booking Concerts & Tours
9. Starting a Record Label
10. Getting Started in the Music Business
(a reference guide to basic legal and business practices in TX)
11. Finding Capital
12. SIC to NAICS conversion
13. Notes for Songwriters / Songwriters' Groups
14. Digital Distribution Common Terminology
15. Finding a Digital Music Distributor
16. Foreign Links
17. U.S. Music Trades
18. US Links
19. U.S. Organizations
20. Licensing How-to
21. Indie Band Packet
22. Notes for Young Artists
23. Finding Musicians For Your Band
24. Guide to Publicizing A Music Event
25. Guide to Social Media for Musicians & Music Businesses
26. Guide to Misappropriation and Right of Publicity
VIII. Radio / Press (877 pages)
1. Stations (817)
2. Texas or Local Radio Shows (91)
3. Radio Stations programming Country (222)
4. Radio Stations programming R&B/Rap/Hip Hop (58)
5. Radio Stations programming Rock & Roll (96)
6. Radio Stations programming Tejano/Latin (160)
7. Radio Stations programming Christian/Gospel (165)
8. College Radio Stations (25)
9. Press (380)