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Your A-List: Best Live Music Venue
Austinites like it outdoors. The two Best Music Venues in the Your A-List poll are Stubb’s (29 percent of the vote) and The Backyard (23 percent). The first is smack dab in the middle of the Red River entertainment district downtown and includes an indoor stage as well as famed barbecue eatery, right on Waller Creek. The second is way out in Bee Cave — not so far out any more, right? — once surrounded by wooded hills, now by an upscale shopping center.
But both allow Austinites to let their hair down under the stars, which can be problematic during the steamy summer months. Luckily, both are blessed with convenient drink stations, and the stages — expansive at the Backyard, focused at Stubb’s — can be viewed from the ground level or up above, perched on special terraces.
Antone’s, the venerable blues club credited with sparking much of the modern Austin music scene, came in third with 12 percent of the vote. Emo’s, the three-stage lode star on Red River, copped fourth place with 9 percent. Other candidates included the exquisitely tuned Parish (5 percent), rollicking La Zona Rosa (5 percent), grand dame Paramount Theatre (3 percent), jazzy Elephant Room (3 percent), cabaret-style Beerland (2 percent), Malibu-esque One World Theatre (2 percent), newcomer Mohawk (2 percent) and under-renovation Bass Concert Hall (2 percent.)
Drawing less than one percent of the vote were Red’s Scoot Inn, Ruta Maya, Flamingo Cantina, Red 7, Room 710 and UT’s Hogg Auditorium.
Write-ins included the “Austin City Limits” studio, Cactus Cafe, Continental Club, Donn’s Depot, Ginny’s Little Longhorn, Hill’s Cafe, Hole in the Wall, Momo’s, Nutty Brown Cafe and Saxon Pub.
I’ve been to every one of these venues, and I can attest, there’s a place for every musician and every fan on this list.
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