Music Venues

It's official: event promotion bigwigs C3 Presents (ACL Festival, Lollapalooza) have purchased Emo's, the East Riverside incarnation of the much-respected, much-nostalgized downtown music venue. Something something hipsters, gentrification, old Austin. Uphill both ways in the snow. Hipsterification. Sell-outs. Corporate fat cats. Galldamned kids these days. The lawn. Skinny jeans. Beards. Irony. [ABJ]