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Explosions in the Sky at Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
During my teenage years in San Antonio, I had a much cooler best friend with a punk dad. As such, his children annually attended
Fun Fun Fun Fest, the cultish music and comedy festival held at Austin s
Auditorium Shores. I joined in at age 16, just months after returning from a 2012 summer mission trip with my church choir.
Upon entry, the singer of Chicago shock act the
Dwarves dislodged my sunglasses and told me to let my hair down as I bobbed nervously (and happily) before the heavy-genre Black Stage. I got properly high for the first time waiting for
Have we turned a corner?
The Electoral College affirmed Joe Biden s presidential win on Monday, while Tuesday s run-off settled the last local races still up in the air. (No word yet on whether the Supreme Court s swift beatdown of Ken Under Indictment, Under FBI Investigation Paxton s lawsuit to invalidate battleground states votes will sour Trump on gifting him a federal pardon.) Meanwhile, in pandemic news, COVID-19 vaccine distribution kicked off in the U.S. this week, including shipments locally earmarked for front-line health care workers.
But life in 2020 is nothing if not a jumble of contradictions, and whatever good news sees us to the year s exit ramp is dampened by the fact that we are still in terrible crisis. You know the drill: 300,000 COVID-19 fatalities nationally, 500 here in Travis County; a nation divided; so many lost jobs, lost businesses; kids falling behind in school, and at different rates depending on their race; rising food insecurity .
In one of the most significant closures to hit Austin’s music industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, local concert promotions company Margin Walker closed up shop for good on Monday after staging hundreds of homegrown shows annually since 2016 at a variety of venues here and around the state. Tabled: Margin Walker heads Graham Williams and Ian Orth (r) at the ground of Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
News of the organization’s closing hit in a mid-afternoon social media post Dec. 14, which characterized the move as a “very tough decision, but one that, essentially, made itself” given the pandemic’s nuclear impact on live entertainment. Substantial concert calendars went mostly black after March and 2021 remains shrouded in uncertainty. As such, having one of the largest independent show stagers in the state throw in the towel appears an ominous indicator of how slow a rebound the touring music industry faces.
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