I like what the other guy said, he has experience with what I mean, but I thought I'd add on to be more specific.

Large venues (stubbs, emos, acmh etc) are for traveling acts and local legends.

6th street is for cover bands mostly booked by Tammy and Miranda booking who double dip by charging the band and the venue.

East is for local up and coming and struggling young musicians.

Each genre has a few bars that dominate, (elephant room/continental club/c boys for jazz, hole in the wall/ red 7 for punk and metal, friends for blues, flamingo for reggae, empire/ Barcelona/ kingdom for electronic, the list goes on...)

Why do I bring this up? Because I want to express how segregated each of these groups are. You go to a venue knowing what you're getting yourself into. You go to a house party to go to a house party. I've been to house parties where a punk group opens for a white nerdy rap group and then an electronic duo on keyboard and guitar finished out the night while everyone danced their asses off. I wouldn't have known any of them if they had been playing at a venue. This kind of organic experience that brings good bands exposure simply doesn't happen when you're playing at a gig where you open for someone that sounds kind of like you but is better so everyone forgets about you as soon as you go on. I literally watched the scene die as police cracked down on house parties, and now it's easier to get exposure online than it is to build a following by putting on kick ads shows.

If you have something to offer besides a weak and empty, "nonsense" then I'm happy to discuss it with You. Maybe there is something I'm not seeing. But I've put a lot of thought into the growth and distribution of our music scene and all I can come up with is that it's being stifled by a cookie cutter mold of how to make money off of the music industry instead of continuing to grow organically from a music scene into a major industry as it was doing before acl and sxsw became almost unbearably commercialized.