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Your A-List: Best Place to Hear Local Bands
As the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin obviously has no shortage of venues for local and touring musicians. But one of the clubs closest to the hearts of all Austinites and out-of-town music lovers is Antone’s, winner of this week’s Your A-List poll with 22 percent of the vote.
Blues lover Clifford Antone opened his little blues club that could in 1973 near Sixth and Brazos before bouncing it up north, and then to The Drag before eventually returning the club to its rightful place downtown, where it has been doing business on Fifth Street since 1997.
Although it began as a home to local and out-of-town blues players, the club has morphed over the years and now features acts of all musical stripes, but the blues will always be in its blood. For a good retrospective on the club from its 30th anniversary, check out Joe Gross’s piece from 2006.
Others receiving votes
- Continental Club, 20 percent
- Saxon Pub, 15percent
- The Mohawk, 9 percent
- The Parish, 8 percent
- Emo’s, 7 percent
- Momo’s, 6 percent
- Elephant Room, 4 percent
- Hole in the Wall, 4 percent
- Red Eyed Fly, 2 percent
- Beerland, 2 percent
- Headhunters, 1 percent
- Ego’s, 1 percent
- Room 710, < 1 percent
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