BandAid School of Music

Band Aid School of Music is Central Texas’ premier performance-based music school, teaching hundreds of students from early childhood to adult. We are also a National Champion Rock Band School! 

Started by James Mays, the South Austin location has six large teaching rooms, three stages, and a recording studio. We have top of the line amps, keyboards, and drums throughout, as well as high end microphones and recording equipment. Whether your goal is to learn to crush karaoke, write songs to sing around the campfire, study music in college, or jump into the music industry as an artist or producer, Band Aid can help you achieve that goal. 

Whatever instrument you or your child wish to play, odds are we teach it: Piano, Guitar, Drums, Voice, Band, Music Production, Songwriting & more all taught under one roof or online in your home! 

Their most recent single ‘Almost Nearly Nancy’, a yarn of unrequited love on the edge of an apocalypse, is a bouncy two and one-half minute slice of protopunk that has western edge and a classic feel. The tune was recorded back in 2019 with producer Mike Mariconda at Sol de Sant Studio in Barcelona and finishing touches were recently applied in Texas. It has quickly become the band’s most streamed song to date on Spotify. Critic Tim Stegall of the Austin Chronicle says: “Austin's kings of punktry & western drop an immaculate raunch bomb on their way outta town, escaping the Delta variant-fueled Stage 5 pall for some mid-South touring. ‘Almost Nearly Nancy’ snarls through layers of post-Keef guitar grind and prime wah-pedal abuse, as Jeff Smith lets loose his best lonesome polecat strut: "I've seen your face airbrushed on the side of a van/ With the words below, 'She'll destroy a man'/ I believe you can." This single's everything the Rolling Stones haven't been since “Exile on Main St.’, and all Primal Scream's wanted to be their whole career – best Hickoids record ever!”