Emo's!

I wish I could remember the first show I saw at Emo's, but I can't. It must have been in junior high or high school, that's for sure. My first live music show was at the Erwin Center when I was in 7th or 8th grade. My dad worked at the Erwin Center at the time and he got my sister and I free tickets to see the Wallflowers and the Counting Crows. I think these blog entries are turning into walks down memory lane more than anything else! I suppose it's bound to happen since I'm from this city and this city's streets and people and landscapes are etched into my happiest and saddest memories.



I went to Emo's pretty often when I was in high school. At the time I worked for an online music magazine and I got to see live shows and interview bands that I was listening to. None of them were really big names, though. I think the biggest band I interviewed was OK Go, who won a Grammy a couple of years ago. They obviously weren't Grammy winners at the time I interviewed them since I scored the interview as a 15- or 16-year-old. But I digress...



Wavves and Best Coast brought me to Emo's on Tuesday night (yes, I'm late posting again). I saw both bands during SXSW last year, also at Emo's. I think I might have also seen Wavves at Emo's during SXSW in 2009, but I'm not sure. All I remember was that I had just lost my job in early March of 2009 and therefore suddenly had Spring Break completely open and was able to overdose on live music, much to my heart's content.



These lovebirds also played at FunFunFun Fest this past November and they put on a pretty good show. It's fun, it's high-energy, some of it is a little poppy, and Best Coast in particular is also fun to sing along to.



Something that I realized as I was squished next to all of those people at this sold out show was that I was about 10 years older than a good number of the kids there. How the hell did that happen?



I think my long history with Emo's and just getting older in general has made it more tolerable in many ways. I used to feel pretty disgusted/put off by all of the people who go there and just try really hard to look and act a certain way. These days I don't notice as much, which makes it a hell of a lot easier to just enjoy the music.


Emo's
603 Red River
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 505 8541