Emo's emosaustin.com
- LOCATION:
- 801 Red River
- PHONE:
- 512-477-EMOS
Emo's Austin, Austin's best small venue for live music, is located just off 6th Street on Red River. On any given night you will find some of the best bands and the most colorful staff and patrons in all of Austin sitting at our bar. And don't let the doormen scare you--some of them are really nice guys (it says so in the women's bathroom). Emo's sports three stages, one inside, one outside, and one in the lounge. Some nights, we even have shows on all three at the same time. There's a beer garden for when you can't, or just don't want to, make your way through the crowd to the stage; and (most importantly) a bar not too far from wherever you might situate yourself. All shows are all ages, unless otherwise noted. Only those 21 years of age or older, of course, may partake of alcoholic beverages. People of any age can tip the bartenders, though. So come visit, and please remember not to feed the crackheads on the corner. On a side note, we do realize our cover charges have increased noticeably in the last year or so. Simply enough, in order to book the bands we have been booking, this has been a necessary step. The increased cover charge is representative of the fact that some of the bands we have coming through are asking for correspondingly high guarantees. Rest assured, as has been the case since Emo's started charging cover, the entire door take goes to the bands.
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Myspace Music Presents 3oh!3 w/ InnerPartySystem, Chain Gang of 1974, The Pirate S...
Wed. 12/03 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Click "I Like It!" to win free tickets! Collectively known as 3OH!3 after their hometown (Denver) 303 area code, the fresh-faced duo of Nathaniel Motte and Sean Foreman create party anthems u…more»
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Deerhunter w/ Times New Viking, Nite Jewel (outside)
Tue. 12/02 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
The Atlanta-based ambient punk rock 5-piece known as Deerhunter are currently touring in support of their third album, Microcaste, which is being labeled by many critics as a masterpiece. Once…more»
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Deerhunter took the indie underground by force with last year’s Cryptograms, an album whose most propulsive rock songs were as finely textured as its meandering, ambient reveries. more at austin.decider.com
Summer Wardrobe, Service Industry (C.D. Release), Fellonius Monks (Inside)
Fri. 11/28 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
In 2007 the Austin-based psychedelic pop quartet The Summer Wardrobe filled in as the backing band for Roky Erickson, and in 2008 released their second album, Cajun Prairie Fire. With great pe…more»
Scars on Broadway w/ Duke Spirit (outside) - CANCELED
Tue. 11/25 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Scars on Broadway's North American tour, scheduled to begin October 19, as well as their October 14 performance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," have been cancelled. Late last week, Malak…more»
Ivoryline w/ A Throne for Every Heart, In: Aviate (inside)
Tue. 11/25 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Nada Surf, Delta Spirit, Jealous Girlfriends (outside)
Sat. 11/22 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Nada Surf’s fifth album, Lucky, is full of the brainy indie rock that made them so "Popular" in the mid 90's. It is also consiered the group's most mature and differentiated collection o…more»
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Nada Surf isn’t the only one-hit wonder to go on to enjoy a fruitful career, more at austin.decider.com
Bang Camaro, Crimson Soul (inside)
Sat. 11/22 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Bang Camaro is described as “Headbangers Ball meets Polyphonic Spree,” more at austin.decider.com
Year Long Disaster, Split Hoof, High Watt Cruxifixers (inside)
Fri. 11/21 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Year Long Disaster may feature the son of The Kinks’ Dave Davies on guitar and vocals and Third Eye Blind’s Brad Hargreaves on drums, more at austin.decider.com
The Lemurs, Deathray Davies, The Burning Hotels, Frank Smith (outside)
Fri. 11/21 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
The Lemurs' guitar-driven synth rock always translates into an entertaining live show. The Austin quintet has been packing clubs while self-releasing two EP's, and will headline a show at Emo&…more»
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Have we officially moved on from the new-wave revival to the new-wave revival revival? more at austin.decider.com
Owen with Caithlin De Marrais and El May
Thu. 11/20 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Chicago songwriter Mike Kinsella is a big figure in tons of bands from that city’s indie scene, more at austin.decider.com
Unwed Sailor, Hotel Hotel, Calm Blue Sea (inside)
Wed. 11/19 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Johnathan Ford’s moody instrumental group Unwed Sailor plucks and plods through swaths that sound like Jim O’Rourke at his rootsiest. more at austin.decider.com
DIGABLE PLANETS, Phranchyze 1, Zeale 32 (outside)
Wed. 11/19 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
New York's Grammy Award-winning Digable Planets made a huge breakthrough back in the early '90s when they released their debut album, featuring heavy use of jazz samples infused with hip-hop. …more»
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Digable Planets seemed to come out of nowhere, made one album that won a Grammy, one album that was much cooler than the first and vanished soon after. more at www.austin360.com
Murs, Kidz In The Hall, Rapper Big Poh, And Isaiah (indoors)
Tue. 11/18 | 7:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
In continuation of a strong lean toward great hip-hop in Austin this week, the 10-year veteran of Los Angeles's underground hip-hop scene Nick "MURS" Carter will headline a solid bill at Emo's…more»
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Murs’ backpacker image masks an awful lot of guile and calculation. Not content to make albums with oversized super-group Living Legends, he’s sought out and collaborated repeatedly with two of the biggest names in underground hip-hop more at austin.decider.com
Still High Tour Starring Method Man & Redman (outdoors) - Moved To Emo's
Tue. 11/18 | 7:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Method Man and Redman have re-joined forces to present 27-city their “Still High” tour. The duo's first album, Blackout!, set them apart as one of the most innovative and exciting …more»
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Noted cannabis enthusiasts Redman and Method Man haven’t released a collaborative album since 1999’s Blackout more at austin.decider.com
Japanther, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Wicked Pro Wrestler, Broken Gold
Sat. 11/15 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Japanther is two dudes from Brooklyn who play fast-paced, energy-infused garage punk rock with shared vocals, lo-fi-fuzzed bass lines, and chest thumping drum beats. They will plug it in at Em…more»
Aids Wolf, The F and the C, The Magic Jewels (inside)
Fri. 11/14 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Montreal’s AIDS Wolf lurks in the chaotic musical netherworld inhabited by Sonic Youth and Black Dice, but its spastic, deliberately abrasive morass of feedback and screaming is far more likely to grate on the nerves of the casual listener. more at austin.decider.com
Jedi Mind Tricks w/ Outerspace and Reef The Lost Cauze (outside)
Fri. 11/14 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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The roots of indie hip-hop duo Jedi Mind Tricks stretch back to 1992, when principals Stoupe and Vinnie Paz met in high school. more at austin.decider.com
Electric Six, Local H w/ Lions (outside)
Thu. 11/13 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Austin's own hard rock outfit Lions will help warm up the stage for the Detroit "garage disco" band Electric Six, along with help from another celebrated hard rock band, Chicago's Local H. Mi…more»
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Making a far bigger racket than seems possible from a duo, Chicago’s Local H has stuck it out as a regional standard for more than a decade. more at austin.decider.com
Mac Lethal, Grieves (inside)
Thu. 11/13 | 9:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal is signed to Rhymesayers, and though he doesn’t cast quite the shadow that Atmosphere does more at austin.decider.com
The Blind Shake, The Gospel Truth, Damage Pants
Mon. 11/10 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
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Sub Oslo, Seu Jacinto, The Great Tyrant, Heart and Soul Sound System
Sat. 11/08 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Golden Boys, Shapes Have Fangs, Good Times Crisis Band (inside)
Sat. 11/08 | 8:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
The last thing the world needs is another Beastie Boys—though it’d be selling Boulder’s 3Oh!3 short to write them off as another group of white kids trying to co-opt rap. more at austin.decider.com