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Your A-List: Best Place to Hear Local Bands
This is a contentious category. Every music lover defines the best place to hear local bands by different standards. Some emphasize the size and feel of the house. Others the audio capacity. Still others, the kinds of bands that play there.
The Continental Club, SoCo’s musical anchor, nailed down 20 percent. Saxon Pub, which performs a similar function for SoLa, maintained 14 percent.
Mohawk and Emo’s, the bookends for the Red River district, tied at just under 10 percent. (Pretty cool, huh?) Momo’s, the musical mecca on West Sixth Street, got 6 percent, while Elephant Room on Congress Avenue tied with Red Eyed Fly, right at the midpoint on Red River.
The Parish, critics’ and artists’ darling for audio quality on East Sixth Street, made of with 4 percent, while campus-area Hole in the Wall took just under that.
Here’s what’s weird: All of these are are geographical markers, the best in their individual entertainment districts. Prediction: On next year’s list, West Fourth Street will be represented by the Ghost Room.
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