NEW YORK, NY – The Outlaw Roadshow (http://theoutlawroadshow.com)  founded by the Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz and music blogger Ryan Spaulding (http://rslblog.com) returns to downtown Austin, TX this weekend (March 13 & 14), offering music lovers 3 stages of live music and more than 40 bands from all over America to choose from.  Entry to the events, hosted at Austin’s Red Eyed Fly and Elysium, is completely free.

Admission is completely free.  The events is 21+ Advanced RSVP is open:  http://2015.do512.com/theoutlawroadshow2015

This will be the first Outlaw Roadshow in Austin, TX since 2013, when the shows were attended by thousands.  “It’s so great to be back in Austin, it’s a magic place. We really love this town, the people, the art – the food - I feel we really belong here,” says Executive Producer Ryan Spaulding. “I didn’t realize how much I was going to miss it all after taking 2014 off to focus on our New York event and even bigger surprises ahead.”

Duritz and Spaulding met during a press interview in 2008 as Counting Crows were about to release their Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings album. They became fast friends and continue to talk all the time, vowing to one day find a way to collaborate. After the first Roadshows, they knew they were on to something. Then in 2012, Counting Crows took The Outlaw Roadshow on a full-blown US tour and the bands from these shows were cast in the national spotlight in cities coast-to-coast.

“To be honest, The Outlaw Roadshows are the things I look forward to all year. I really love it. I do,” said Adam Duritz. “We spend the months leading up to them, and the weeks while they’re going on, just drowning in great music.”

Artists who play The Outlaw Roadshow lovingly refer to themselves as ‘Outlaws’ long after each event has wrapped. This year’s Outlaw Roadshow lineup offers 40 amazing bands, including:  Idyll Green (the Villanueva brothers from Hacienda) return to play The Outlaw; Boston music  legends The Pills re-form to play; “New York’s Best Pop Band” Parlour Tricks; Austin’s own K Phillips & The Concho Pearls are here to hammer it home, as well as Hollis Brown – one of America’s hottest rock bands. There’s so many others (some returning and others playing for the very first time):  Pompeii, The Suffers, The Silks, Hollis Brown, Great Caesar, The Contenders, Animal Talk, Theee Rock Wolves, Hooka Hey, Await Rescue, Coyote Union, Devin Sinha, Josh Buckley, Daphne Lee Martin, Those Nights, Somebody’s Darling, Animal Years, Skunkmello, My Education, Colee James, Big Bill, K Phillips & The Concho Pearls, Quiet Company, Little Brave, Boom Forest, Roem Baur, Christoph Krey, Doctor Gasp, Kiona, SORNE, Snake Skin Prison, The Nimbus,  Winston Cave, Travel By Stars, Steen, and many more.

“It’s so much music and so many friends…it’s become like our extended families,” said Duritz. “Like we say, ‘Hell, who doesn’t wanna be an Outlaw?!"

Red Eyed Fly (http://redeyedfly.com/home.html) and Elysium  (https://twitter.com/elysiumaustin) are both centrally located in downtown Austin on Red River. Combined, they will offer music fans three stages of simultaneous music for two days and nights.

Spaulding and Duritz will soon be announcing the first ever Outlaw Roadshow in Nashville, TN – an announcement that many have been looking forward to.  “We’re doing something different and special – and we need to find ways to keep doing it,” said Spaulding. “Nashville is our next stop and as soon as this amazing Austin experience wraps, that will be our focus. That and New York City this fall!”

Follow along with all Outlaw Roadshow announcements on Twitter using #theoutlawroadshow.

Follow Ryan: http://twitter.com/theRSL

Follow Adam: http://twitter.com/countingcrows

The Outlaw Roadshow is also on facebook: http://facebook.com/theoutlawroadshow