Back-to-School Guide: Stores to Shop Your Way Into Austin Music

Dress for the job you want: stylish scenester – plus recommendations on record shops and instrument stores

"...solid choice of local band merchandise, find manifold options vintage and new below to shop, in person or on..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Vintage Thieves

Female team targets local vintage store employees' purses and wallets

"...A series of recent thefts targeting Austin's vintage stores has shaken the boutique community, normally a refuge..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Sean O'Neal

Vinyl Saved My Life Tonight: Record Stores Deliver in a Crisis

Local media emporiums maintain online shipping during C-19 lockdown

"...near mint Powerslave – one never, ever, ever finds vintage Iron Maiden, let alone for $19.99 – not one..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Guide to Austin Record Stores

Exploring the grooves, from black metal to blues

"...new and used “rekkids.” Meanwhile, a slate of boutique stores satisfy all the music nerd niches with their specialties..."

Aug. 23, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

Austin Record Stores for Your Listening Pleasure

Nine shops to satisfy your vinyl urges

"...other music fans. Here are some of the record stores Austin has to offer. Antone's Record Shop..."

Feb. 4, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Shopping Austin's Vintage Vanguard

"...household furnishings avec Sixties flair. 1700-C S. Congress, 447-7686. www.prototypevintagedesign.com...."

Dec. 8, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Summer Fun: Movin' on Up

Charm School Vintage and Coco Coquette move into larger spaces

"...Yes, it's true: Charm School Vintage and Coco Coquette have parted storefront ways. Let it..."

May 19, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Good Eye

Old Bohemia

"...What makes a vintage store heaven on Earth? It depends on what you're..."

March 28, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Estate Sale Roundup: February 14-16

Look for treasures around every corner to capture your heart this week.

"...Stay out of the generic big-box stores this Valentine's and make a statement with treasures found...."

Feb. 13, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Visiting Austin on a Budget

See the city and still afford your flight home

"...always have wide selections, but there are also smaller vintage stores worth checking out, like Lo-Fi, Never Knew, and..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Chronolog Post by Cody Song

The Bee's Knees

Andrew Bujalski's uncommon process

"...while the other tussles for control of a co-owned vintage shop in Austin...."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

We're Freaking OUT! Fashion Freakout IV

Spring fun begins with Fashion Freakout.

"...as a way to showcase some of Austin's best vintage fashion in a rock setting, it is the event..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Design Post by Anne Harris

Faster Than Sound: School’s Out for Dayglow

Nineteen-year-old Sloan Struble leaves UT for the bedroom-pop big leagues, while two new area record stores make their debuts

"...Felipe Granados, Marcos Jorge, and Taylor Perio, along with vintage clothes and fresh tees from Weems' store...."

June 21, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

After a Fashion

Our Style Avatar doles out the sweet love

"...the Fashion Freakout, a production of several of Austin's vintage stores hellbent on dressing Austin's fashion backward. With a..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Pink and brown are just not cutting it anymore, people. Get with the program. Plus … you know … more shilling for stores and stuff …

"...or throat, but my favorites have always been the vintage jeweled variety. Brooches have not been an "in-style" or..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SoCo Shopping

Local boutiques offer glitzy, weird, and downright Austin-y items

"...be self-aware of how weird it is, and the stores that now call this city home reflect that. South..."

June 14, 2016 Columns Post by Rivers Wright

Bedside Manner

Strip mall apocalypse

"...Other than perusing book stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping of..."

March 5, 2012 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

A Change of Location but the Same Spirit at South Congress Books

After more than a decade the store finds a new home on Kerbey Lane

"...A small storefront housing thousands of vintage and used books on South Congress Avenue represented the..."

Feb. 5, 2023 Arts Post by Joelle DiPaolo

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...a pack of Parliaments, and we'll hit up some vintage stores on NoBu." Austin is going to hell in..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

SXSW Free Butler Park Concert Series

Schedule for Music fest’s all-star weekend extravanganzas

"...South by Short Wallet? The dream’s still possible. Between in-stores, day parties, Flatstock, the Gear Expo, and South by..."

March 6, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...a pack of Parliaments, and we'll hit up some vintage stores on NoBu." Austin is going to hell in..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

Going to Hell

"...a pack of Parliaments, and we'll hit up some vintage stores on NoBu." Austin is going to hell in..."

Feb. 11, 2004 Postmarks

After a Fashion

Somehow your Style Avatar remains faithful to fashion, even while bedridden. Read all about it …

"...interesting concept. You see those things all over the vintage stores: short little dainty affairs with lots of ribbons..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Champagne Strife

Holiday Cheers Spawn Spirits Rivalry

"...find the wines. The next year, I included the stores, but I got calls from readers who had found..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Food Feature

The Fabric of Reality (TV)?

Put this in your sewing machine and stitch it

"...because here's Fabricker, and here's a few other indie stores that have popped up in Austin the past few..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...loves to buy books. Or loves hanging out in bookstores and browsing. Or sitting at tables and taking up..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

The Good Eye: Nostalgia for the New

Pull up that Arvin and read about from whence it came

"...Mad Men under our belts and half a dozen stores in town now specializing in midcentury modern furniture –..."

July 18, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Then there were the in-stores that happened every Friday. Being a music snob, sometimes..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...hall on East Riverside unrelated to the original business.RECORD STORES..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Playback: Brian Beattie's Wizard of Oz

A peak inside indie Austin's new illustrated CD musical

"...Book retailers and record stores stocking Brian Beattie's latest project might have to create..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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