Best coffee:
Flat Rack, The Buzzmill.
Best after-hours hangouts:
Valhalla, The White Horse, Cheer Up Charlies,
Best place to catch a show:
Carson Creek Ranch river stage at Austin Psych
Fest. May be the best venue in the state and I have
Best spot for happy hour:
played a couple.
Parkside.
Best Shawarma in town:
Favorite Landmark:
Kabaabalicious.
The Capitol building.
Record store:
Undiscovered gem:
Reverberation Appreciation Society HQ, Waterloo,
Red Bud Park.
End of an Ear.
Best neighborhood:
Recently bought record:
Cherrywood — it’s in a good central location,
Vashti Bunyan.
very friendly, lots of trees. Austin Recording
service is there. I spend loads of time there.
Where to stay:
St. Cecilia.
Favorite dive bar:
Sahara lounge.
Where to shop:
Stag.
Best local beer and spirit:
(512) Pecan Porter and Tito’s Handmade Vodka.
Waterloo
Records
BLACK ANGELS PHOTOS: Opening page, Alexandra Valenti; this page, Courtney Chavanell
The Side Bar, The Liberty.
Right around the corner from SXSW, this local
favorite has a curated selection from folks
who love music and vinyl just as much as you do.
WATERLOO GIVES US THE SCOOP.
A LOCAL FAV
April Fool's Day 1982
We love music and film as much
as you do, so we created a store
where all of us would want to hang
out, listen, and shop. Waterloo has
been voted as Austin's "Best Record
Store" for 32 consecutive years by
the readers of the Austin Chronicle.
TOP SELLING RECORD OF THE MOMENT
Shakey Graves - And The War Came
STOP HERE FOR
Great music and video selection (new & used),
plus friendly staff. Free weekly in-store
performances with up and coming bands (and
sometimes superstar bands), from around the
world and around the corner, plus free beer too!
We are SXSW Central with 28 bands performing
free to 1000+ folks in our parking lot, and we
are the official music vendor at ACL Fest and
FunFunFun Fest, hosting dozens of artist/
band autograph session meet and greets at our
festival store tents.
82 . TRAVEL WITH PURPOSE
Spencer Selvidge
EST’D
CLAIM TO FAME
Robert Plant and Quentin Tarantino
have shopped here.
RAREST RECORD IN STORE
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, and
Thurston Moore Yokokimthurston
Deluxe Box Set — Numbered and
Autographed
Metamodern Sounds In Country Music by
Sturgill Simpson