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Your A-List: Best Music Venue

By Michael Barnes | Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 05:05 PM

Austin claims more than 150 music venues. 150. Yet not all of them are ideal for consuming music. Blame lazy bookers, poor acoustics, chatty customers.

All the venues chosen by our A-List voters, however, deserve consideration as serious music listening posts. The top winner, for instance, scrupulously books its acts, some regular, some incidental. It handles acoustic sets and somewhat bigger sounds. OK, so sometimes its patrons gab their way through gigs, but you’ve got to know where to sit at the Saxon Pub on South Lamar Boulevard. After all, it tuned up 40 percent of the vote.

Stubb’s, alternating indoors and outdoors on Red River Street, pounded out 30 percent. Antone’s, originally home of the blues, now incredibly eclectic, fell far behind with 6 percent. Finely tuned the Parish got 5 percent, while critically acclaimed Emo’s drummed up 4 percent, Just ahead of indoor/outdoor La Zona Rosa.

Settling for 3 percent or less were Paramount Theatre, Momo’s, Elephant Room, One World Theatre, Beerland and Tim’s Porch at the Backyard.

Really, there’s not a bad spot on this list.

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By Chris Saad

October 7, 2009 6:28 PM | Link to this

Saxon? Really? It's cozy but I don't see why people think its THE best venue in Austin.