Riders Against the Storm closes out the EXNE stage at the Texas Music Museum, March 15, 2012
Month: March 2012
The Scoot Inn is always a popular SXSW venue, East Austin, March 15, 2012
Texas Coffee Traders on East 4th Street in Austin will fool you. It will look closed from the street even though it’s open. It will look like a warehouse when it’s really a retail store and a coffee bar. And it has some of the very best coffee in Austin, as well as every conceivable kind of coffee machine and coffee equipment.
The Yellow Jacket Social Club is a secluded venue down in a “cut” on an alley-like stretch of East 5th in East Austin, across the railroad tracks from the graffiti wall. March 15, 2012
This graffiti wall on East Austin’s 5th Street is a well-known neighborhood landmark, SXSW, March 15, 2012
East Austin, SXSW, Thursday, March 15, 2012
Founded on the perception that SXSW did little to include the unique African-American music styles of East Austin, East By Northeast (EXNE) was a free mini-festival of legendary East Austin musical acts that took place on the parking lot behind the Texas Music Museum on East 11th. Attendees got to hear blues legends like the Texas Eastside Kings and gospel groups like the Bells of Joy.
Brightly-colored murals and monuments are everywhere in East Austin, SXSW, Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Historic Victory Grill, East Austin
The Victory Grill is one of the oldest African-American nightclubs in the country, and one of only a select few stops on the “chitlin’ circuit” to still be functioning in 2012. Of course it sometimes books rock bands these days, and the front has become an excellent coffee bar called the Purple Bean. But it is very much still in operation, and during SXSW sponsored a daylong tribute to the memory of Miles Davis.