[mimiflynn]

Austin is the self-proclaimed 'live music capital'. I lived there for 8 years, and, to my understanding, spontaneous performances anywhere will be shut down not matter what time of year it is, and especially if its on private property.

Really, its pretty reasonable. With 40,000 undergrad students flooding into the city every fall, you have to keep crazy kids from playing impromptu shows on the street... even more so during SXSW since those are the same kids that want to be 'discovered' by record labels...

... or was that last decade when that mattered?