Austin is known as the Live Music Capital of the World, and its weekly nightlife could drain a vampire. But amplify a normal night on the town by the SXSW music festival’s 1,000 bands, 60-plus venues, and long list of parties, and you’ve got a five-day baccahanal each March that rivals Mardi Gras. DAVID GLESSNER
City Guide :: Austin
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Evening
RED RIVER STREET
Legendary indie-punk warhorse Emo’s (603 Red River, 512-477-EMOS) and barbecue restaurant/amphitheater Stubb’s (801 Red River, 512-480-8341) anchor Red River, which is also home to such dicey CBGB-inspired bomb shelters as Beerland (711.5 Red River, 512-479-ROCK), Room 710 (710 Red River, 512-476-0997), Headhunters (720 Red River, 512-236-0188), and the industrial/goth leather asylum Elysium (705 Red River, 512-478-2979). The stomping ground of veteran hometown rockers such as Lower Class Brats, Broken Teeth, the Ends, and Sons o Hercules, he street also has the moderately more refined indoor/outdoor Red Eyed Fly (715 Red River, 512-474-1084) and hipster havens Club De Ville (900 Red River, 512-457-0900) and the Mohawk club (912 Red River, 512-482-8404). >
