Austin's Rock N Romp is a monthly concert series dedicated to getting parents out of the house, offering good local music for parents, kids and those just under the legal bar age a chance to rock out, bounce in a moonwalk, and relax. Recently profiled on the Today Show, in Newsweek and Rare magazines, as well as featured in the Statesman, RNR is quickly becoming the go-to solution for adults and children all over Austin......

On Sunday afternoon, Austin Rock N Romp and Book People are sponsoring an all-ages event on the patio at Mohawk featuring Neal Pollack and Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg. The show will also feature Black Before Red, amps still warm from their Local Music is Sexy 3 performance the night before. Rock N Romp has been putting on all ages rock shows since last summer, and in the coming months will be moving their events to......

FRIDAY [9] art • Grand Opening Party for DRAW, 150 artists strong at Gallery Lombardi (7pm - 10pm) comedy • Todd Barry, Matt Bearden at Emo's Lounge music • Deerhoof, Macromantics, Experimental Dental School at Emo's music • Primordial Undermind at End of an Ear (6pm, Free) music • The Everyday People CD Release Show with The Hero Factor, Live Oak Decline at The Parish Room music • Lucinda Williams, Heartless Bastards at Stubb's......

THURSDAY [8] film • Super Happy fun Monkey Bash 5 at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Now That's What I Call a Singalong: Pop Royalty at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Terror Thursday: The Beast Must Die at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown art • Opening Reception for "In My Stairwell" by Mark Seliger at Fielding Lecht Gallery (6-9pm) art • Artistic License: Matthew Day Jackson at The Blanton (6-7pm) art • Public Tour: The Geometry......

For some of you, SXSW is an obsession. For others...not so much. While we're rather immersed in the whole SXSW experience at Austinist, we know that many of you just want to take in a free or cheap event or two during the festival to experience the thing. No problem. Here's a list of events featuring local merchants, community organizations, and radio stations that will allow you to casually dip a toe in the......

Hey Parents! Be sure to bring your little nuggets to Ruta Maya this Saturday afternoon for your monthly installation of Austin Rock N Romp. As you may already be aware, Rock N Romp creates a family friendly environment where hip parents can expose their children to the beauty of local live music while they themselves are able to enjoy the bands minus the ear-splitting amps or $100 babysitting bill. This month’s lineup includes fabulous......

Austin's Rock N Romp is a kid-friendly concert series featuring local musical acts and performers once a month for the benefit of the music community and the families that are a part of it. The holiday Romp is today at Ruta Maya Cafe, beginning at 4 pm and will feature the music of The Palm School Choir singing (among other things) some of their favorite Flaming Lips songs, and local indie wunderkinds AM Syndicate,......

Austin Rock 'N' Romp is calling for bands and DJs interested in playing in a local concert series that doubles as a service to hard-working parents. Rock 'N' Romp, started in Austin this past July, is a series of kid-friendly rock concerts, held the last Saturday of each month from 4:30-6:30 pm at Ruta Maya. Kids and their parents come together at Rock 'N' Romp to enjoy live music together -- an ideal way......

Austin Rock N Romp is back this Saturday for a second round of family-friendly rocking out, and this time, supremely awesome local rockers Golden Bear will be providing said rock! In case you don’t already know (but you’re cool folks, so we’re sure you do), Rock N Romp is a kid-friendly concert series that offers music-loving adults, who might not have the time or ability to get to shows, a chance to mingle with other......

FRIDAY [25] food • Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market North Lamar (8am-9pm) shopping • Flipnotics Clothespad celebrates its 14th anniversary by hosting a big sidewalk sale, with $10 "Stuff a Bag" vintage threads for the ladies and 20% everything else (8am-9pm) books • Robin Meyers presents Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future at BookPeople (7pm) music • Gorilla Biscuits, Terror, Comeback......

TUESDAY [22] music • Girl in a Coma, The Randies, Rainman Suite at Flamingo Cantina ($7, 8:30pm) ® music • Caroline Casey and Meshbanes at Hole in the Wall (10pm) ® music • Beerfest Week! Birthday bash with Jimmy Deveney Allstars, Heather Rae & the Moonshine Boys, Long Shadows at Beerland comedy • Howard Kremer with Skyler Stone at Cap City Comedy Club (Through 26th) film • Best of Blanks on a Blank Filmmaking......

[This post by future Austinist contributor Ami]Have you ever been hiking on the greenbelt and noticed all those crazy people climbing the rock faces along the way?  Well, we have.  Not only that, but we’ve also noticed all their cool gear and how much fun it looked like they were having.  So we decided that we, too, wanted to learn to rock climb, dammit.  To that end, we signed up for lessons at Austin Rock......