Armadillo World Headquarters Cookbook Unearthed by SouthPop!

Micael Priest compiled the recipes; David Byrne loved the nachos

"...Austin chefs to catalogue the notoriously tasty menu from Armadillo World Headquarters...."

March 9, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Friends and Family of the Original Owner of the Armadillo Sign Being Auctioned at Sotheby's Say Sign Was Purchased, Not Stolen, Despite Claims of Armadillo Associates 

Bidding underway for piece of Dillo history

"...from one of Austin’s most historic music venues: the Armadillo World Headquarters...."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Nelson and places like the Broken Spoke and the Armadillo we kinda got them to sit down and enjoy..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Playback: Armadillo Tales

A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock

"...or electricity, I excavated the van's only reading material: Armadillo World Headquarters, a memoir by Eddie Wilson...."

April 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Armadillo Christmas Bazaar Continues Its Nomadic Ways

Local shopping extravaganza moves from Austin Music Hall.

"...The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar has become a bit of a vagabond..."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Wild, the Innocent, and the Five Armadillo Shows

"...lore has it that Bruce Springsteen landed at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters because local poster artist Micael Priest snuck..."

April 3, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: And the Armadillos Went Wild

Threadgill’s World Headquarters goes the way of its predecessor, the Armadillo World Headquarters, plus Black Fret offers more than just money

"...Days before Threadgill's World Headquarters permanently shuttered last Sunday, the joint packed out..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle'

Once upon a time, at a venue far, far away, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band made their name in Austin

"...arrived in Austin for a two-night stand at the Armadillo World Headquarters, which was razed in 1981. Both shows..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Days Numbered for Threadgill’s WHQ

Eddie Wilson’s iconic business will close after SXSW unless ...

"...doesn’t currently have a lease for his vaunted Threadgill’s World Headquarters restaurant and concert venue on Riverside Drive, and..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...Build Around It." The whole year felt bleak. The Armadillo World Headquarters had announced its closing at the end..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...that sits amongst other bubbles, each containing a separate world. It's a far-out structural theory, this blobby multiverse, and..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...scene was already well-established. Places like the Broken Spoke, Armadillo World Headquarters, and Soap Creek Saloon were already burnishing..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Luv Doc Recommends: Artly Fest

Threadgill's World HQ -, Saturday, July 9, 2011

"...around. It's true. Back in the days of the Armadillo World Headquarters, Lone Star was a nickel a pitcher,..."

July 8, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

John Fogerty Won’t Back Down

From Pete Seeger and Tom Petty to the romance of the Sixties

"...headlines the All ATX fundraiser titled “Back to the Armadillo,” starring a who’s who of local talent. Fogerty proved..."

Oct. 25, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...“Welcome to Austin: the Live Music Capital of the World.” Now you feel obligated to check out some of..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Watch This: Remembering Doug Sahm and the Grateful Dead’s Impromptu 1972 Thanksgiving Day Jam

New pocket-doc revisits Armadillo lore 50 years later

"...Thanksgiving Day in 1972, lightning struck at Austin’s hallowed Armadillo World Headquarters concert hall...."

Nov. 24, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Reelin’ in the Years

Steely Dan follows up the Armadillo with Bass Concert Hall

"...time Steely Dan played in Austin was at the Armadillo World Headquarters (1970-1980). The group that performed last night..."

Aug. 29, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Origin Story of the Liberty Lunch Brand

Former venue owner Mark Pratz on Stubb’s potential re-branding

"...in operation 1975-1999. Many considered it successor to the Armadillo World Headquarters, which closed in 1980...."

July 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

I'll Fly Away: “Sister” Bobbie Nelson Passes on at Age 91

Soul of Willie Nelson & Family called the piano her "truest friend"

"...than her brother Willie, she was known to the world as “Sister Bobbie.”..."

March 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

An Open Letter to Reno, Nevada...

Reno: Not such a great place for movies

"...many splendid corporate DVD rental facilities. As all the world knows, John Huston's magnificent western elegiac was shot right..."

June 24, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

His Year

Colin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore split the family tree

"...released his last full length disc, The Day the World Stopped and Spun the Other Way (Squirm), but 2009..."

Aug. 12, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Harmonic Convergence

Threadgill's perfectly weds Austin's music and food cultures

"...Threadgill's World Headquarters evokes another era of Wil­son's career. The converted..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

You Do Not Tear Down Landmarks

"...one reason only -- to conduct business at the headquarters of the most Republican state in the union --..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sound & Color: Four Visual Depictions of Austin's Musical Identity

A whole palette of music-related art happenings of late, from a new Daniel Johnston mural to Bob Dylan's depiction of the Hole in the Wall

"...group gathered outside the Contemporary Austin to celebrate another world of moral iconography. A new mural honoring the late..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Off the Record

Pulling back the (iron) curtain on Fun Fun Fun Fest and the Flying Balalaika Brothers in time for the 40th anniversary of the Armadillo World Headquarters

"...Forty years ago on Aug. 7, the Armadillo World Headquarters officially opened, but the old National Guard..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Violators Will Be Punished

"...Was Janis at the Soap Creek Saloon, or the Armadillo? Cornell Hurd at the Hole in the Wall? Nah,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Can you believe it, another club gone. And another gone, and another gone…

"...night of the Empanada Parlour. Yep, that's right, the world music venue on Sixth has succumbed to its unceasing..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...Austin is known worldwide as a blues town, but does it still deserve..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...pivotal year for America, for Austin, for the embattled world-at-large, but most of all for the Mighty Atom. It..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow

Still Greezy after all these years

"...When Abbott's favorite son took the stage at the Armadillo World Headquarters on August 12, 1972, Austin's founding myth..."

June 23, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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