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2 of 5  — Graham Williams, founder of Margin Walker 3 of 5  — Foxygen plays at Mohawk in 2017. 4 of 5  — King Khan and BBQ perform at Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2015. 5 of 5  — Ibeyi performs at Mohawk in 2018. Graham Williams, the founder of Margin Walker, discusses his journey in the Austin music scene and explains why nine months into the pandemic he decided to close Texas largest indepen...

Jackie Venson and Chris Cubas hosting the 2019/2020 Austin Music Awards last March at ACL Live at the Moody Theater (Photo by David Brendan Hall) For hundreds of locals, the 2019/2020 Austin Music Awards transpired as the last big show they attended before life turned upside down. Wednesday, March 11, 2020, ACL Live at the Moody Theater: We were so naive, passing joints backstage on the "Willies Place" balcony while getting and giving all the hugs and handshakes you could ever...

Garcia: San Antonio club owner helped deliver $15 billion in relief to live venues FacebookTwitterEmail (ALICIA WAGNER CALZADA/ SPECIAL TO 210SA)ALICIA WAGNER CALZADA /SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS-NEWS On Dec. 14, Margin Walker, the largest independent live-music promoter in Texas, announced that it was permanently shutting down. A business that booked more than 3,500 shows in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio over the past four years had collapsed. It collapsed under the weight of a COVID-19 p...

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 Austins 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 s...

Have we turned a corner? The Electoral College affirmed Joe Bidens presidential win on Monday, while Tuesdays run-off settled the last local races still up in the air. (No word yet on whether the Supreme Courts swift beatdown of Ken "Under Indictment, Under FBI Investigation" Paxtons 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 loc...

Trustees District 5 and At-Large Place 8 seats, respectively, in Tuesdays election. Lugo and Boswell are two of four new trustees to join the board alongside D1 Trustee Ofelia Maldonado Zapata and D3 Trustee V-A Day in ATX: The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Austin were administered to front-line health care workers at UT-Austin on Tue., Dec. 15. UT Health Austin, the clinical practice for UT Dell Medical School, was among the first four sites in Texas to receive the vacci...

Click to copy Margin Walker Presents, Texas largest independent promoter, announced Monday that it would closing its doors permanently. Since its launch in 2016, Margin Walker has booked and promoted over 3,500 shows across Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Like many in the live entertainment business, Margin Walker was forced to cancel shows in mid-March due to the coronavirus and attempted to stay afloat through various measures, including show bonds, for the past nine months. But in...

Austin 360 The day after Graham Williams announced the closure of Margin Walker Presents — the premier indie booking and promotion company in Texas — he described a music industry adrift in uncertainty as the coronavirus pandemic churns around it.    “I liken this whole thing to the music business being this sinking ship, and were all getting on lifeboats trying to get to this island where live music is happening,” Williams told the American-Statesman over the phone on Tuesday. “...

In April, with the clubs shut down and musicians feeling adrift, expressive pop artist Mobley embarked on an ambitious project. He randomly paired 15 musicians and 15 filmmakers to create a visual album with a process structured around the surrealist drawing game exquisite corpse.  In the game, a scene is formed as each player draws a part then folds the paper to obscure their contribution before handing off to the next player. For the visual album, each artist was provided an end clip of the...

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...