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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Johnny Cash played the outdoor stage of a scuzzy Red River punk club in 1994, mid-comeback, and the show entered Austin folklore instantly. Emo's began as a Houston punk room in 1989, opened its Austin outpost at 603 Red River Street in time for South by Southwest 1992, and spent two decades as the anchor of the Sixth-and-Red-River scene - an all-ages, no-frills compound where Nirvana-era noise rock, hardcore, metal and hip-hop all collided, and where everyone from Nas to De La Soul to The Dilli...