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Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money

Following last week’s Barracuda closure, a domino effect will continue without emergency city funding

by Rachel Rascoe June 18, 2020September 30, 2025

Arts

“Shoot Like a Grrrl” Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon’s exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

by Robert Faires August 29, 2019September 30, 2025

Columns

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Once again, Austin has demonstrated its deep indifference to front-line troops who nourish the music scene it purports to be so proud of

by Louis Black May 13, 2005September 30, 2025

Columns

Anyone who tells you the impact of a smoking ban will be negligible doesn’t appreciate that it’s the very number of Austin music clubs, including the swarm of the more marginal ones, that enables the scene’s vitality

by Louis Black April 1, 2005September 30, 2025

Columns

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It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin

by Louis Black February 25, 2005September 30, 2025

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We struggle with the obscenity of a special legislative session aimed at redistricting, and we mourn the passing and celebrate the life of Al Ragle, an almost unsung hero of the Austin music scene.

by Louis Black June 20, 2003September 30, 2025

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Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to “Dancing About Architecture” and chart a new course, a bit.

by Louis Black January 3, 2003September 30, 2025