venues

Another one bites the dust:The Austin Music Hall is to be demolished to make way for a 28-story office building. Officials with Cielo Property Group, an Austin real estate company, confirmed in an exclusive interview with the Austin Business Journal that it is teaming up with Tier REIT of Dallas to build another downtown office tower...

The troubles on Red River continue. The Austin Chronicle confirms that Holy Mountain is closing on October 1st.Casualties of the pricing boom, owners were confronted with a 45% rent increase, putting their monthly bill at $8,000 plus "triple net" fees - taxes, insurance, and maintenance - totaling in the thousands...

Infest took over the old Antone's space on 5th and LaVaca last spring, but Republic of Austin notes that they've been locked out of their space, with a sign taped to the door that reads, "LOCKOUT NOTICE...

Club DeVille RIP. Cheer Up Charlie's East RIP. The Cheer Up staff writes on 12/30:Dear friends, As you may have all heard, we are moving from our current location on January 15th...

Check out all that water in Zilker Park! No wonder they had to cancel ACL. Click the pic for a bigger version. UPDATE: Check out a second picture of the flooding below...

Mountain Goats at Antone's, Dec. 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) YNN is reporting that downtown fixture Antone's will close its doors after SXSW this year with plans to open in a new location...

Very sad news... YNN says:Authorities are trying to identify a body found in downtown Austin Saturday morning. Police say the body was discovered floating in Shoal Creek near Third and Nueces streets...

Jack White is having his taping this week on 10/14 during the ACL Festival, and you can enter to win tickets to that show on the ACLTV site (still available as of this post)...

Originally scheduled for October 1, there will be a special meeting of the Austin Music Commission today (10/8) at 10:30am (City Hall, Rm 1101, Boards & Commissions, 301 West 2nd Street) to discuss several items in relation to the current noise ordinance and its impact on the 'Live Music Capital of The World', as well as other music-related issues...

Now's your chance to own some prime, historical real estate (which is also a SXSW venue)...The Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin is for sale, another sign that local commercial real estate owners are in the mood to cash in on the city's rising national cachet...