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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 independent concert promoter for good. Music in this episode by Sailor Poon: Tags

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 "Willie's Place" balcony while getting and giving all the hugs and handshakes you could ever desire and living in utter denial of how bad the COVID-19 pandemic would soon become. City officia...

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 pandemic that has taken one of the great joys of life — experiencing live music with a crowd of fel...

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-genr...

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 ...