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The Ultimate Team-Building Experience in Austin Austin, Texas is a city that pulses with creativity, diversity, and an unbeatable live music scene. For corporate teams looking to break out of the boardroom and immerse themselves in an iconic local experience, Twisted Texas Tour offers a solution that perfectly blends culture, fun, and team-building. As the…

Keep Austin Weird: Exploring Austin’s Most Unique Buildings If you’ve spent more than five minutes in Austin, you know there’s something a little different about this city—and we mean that in the best way possible! From wild live music jams and spontaneous food truck feasts to epic bat bridges, Austin is a quirky blend…

“We seem to be very much tuned for music.”  — Harvard Medical School   Why does music give us ALL the feels? According to multiple Harvard studies, it’s not just entertainment—it’s biology. And live music on a moving bus? That’s biology on overdrive. Music lights up nearly all of the brain: 🧠 Hippocampus & Amygdala → Emotional memory 💖 Limbic System → Pleasure & reward 🦵 Motor System → Why you can’t stop dancing! 🧠 Memory: Songs activate the hippocampus—so those singalongs become core memories forever. 🩺 Healing: Harvard notes music can help with Parkinson’s, depression, Alzheimer’s, and more.   Plus: Music influences your heart rate and breathing. That’s why our live band makes your heart race (in the best way)! 💓   Two things music does best: 🎭 1. Tension & Resolution: That moment when the chorus drops? Pure…

5 Ideas for Bomb–Ass Bachelorette Parties in Austin Planning the ultimate bachelorette bash for your bestie? Looking for someplace truly unforgettable? Austin was practically tailor-made for you and your crew! Constantly bursting with energy, serving up amazing eats, and offering up a heaping plate of unique, memory-making experiences all y’all will not soon forget. Thankfully…

We Austinites love to complain about South by Southwest (SXSW), as hordes of outsiders crowd our favorite taco trucks and music venues. But even the grumpiest amongst our kind have to marvel at just how far it has come since it kicked off back in 1987 as a little local music get-together. These days, it’s…

Folks come from all over the globe to sample Texas Barbecue, and Austin offers up some of the best examples of the art. BBQ joints such as Franklin, Terry Black’s and La Barbecue make headlines and fill bellies. Now, that’s great and all, but as hard as it may be to believe, we here in…

Provided a quarter inch of snow doesn’t stop our town dead in its tracks, January in Austin is a time when us locals would rather be indoors. Usually, this means we’ve got our five dogs wrapped around us while we strum our guitars, but sometimes the urge strikes us to go out into the bitter…

Five Things Austinites Do to Deck the Dang Ol’ Halls in December: Austin may not look it with all that leftover summer sun still hanging around at the end of the year, but our little big city really brings out the holiday cheer in just about everyone. We also bring heaps of cool arts, great…

Photo by Raymond Petrik on Unsplash   Five Things Austin Gets Up To in November that Aren’t Football-related When our friends from up north walk around Austin in November, they can catch us sayin’ some strange stuff, such as “Hook ‘em!” “Turkey Trot!” and “I actually got my jacket out today!”  We may still have…

Five Things Austinites Do to (Pumpkin) Spice Up Their October! Fall ain’t exactly freezing in ATX much, but we still brave our semi-reliably slightly cooler than 100 degree weather with very cool events! Here are five things we like to do around here while we wait for our version of jacket weather:   1. Not…

5 Things Austinites do to Welcome Fall in September! Sure, it might still be stiflingly hot, but September in Texas still fills us with hope that jacket weather is just around the corner. Since there’s still some summer left in the tank around these parts, we figure we’d better keep the party rolling along. Here…

If you make a habit of interacting with the locals here in Austin, you’ll probably hear many differing opinions on just how good a job we’ve collectively been doing Keeping Austin Weird. As Matthew McConaughey himself said about Austin, “”The landscape has changed, but I hope [Keeping it Weird] doesn’t change. It’s a cool spot. Hopefully it stays that way.” And here at Twisted Texas Tour, we don’t lend a second of our time to any naysayers! Austin is still quite weird, and here’s 5 reasons why!   The Live Music Capital of the Weird, er… World!  Yes, we still consider ourselves as the Live Music Capital of the World, and will continue to do so long after Willie Nelson strums his last chord… which apparently won’t be any time soon! I mean, sure: Many places all over the US…