Austin is a city of over 700,000 in the Hill Country region of the American state of Texas. It 's the capital of Texas and a college town, and also a center of alternative culture away from the major cities on the American coasts, although the city is rapidly gentrifying with its rising popularity. Austin 's attitude is commonly emblazoned about town on T-Shirts and bumper stickers that read: Keep Austin Weird. Austin is also marketed as the Live Music Capital of the World due to the large number of venues. http://wikitravel.org/en/Austin