Posted on Saturday, 4 February 2012

Things change. This used to be Raul’s, ground zero of punk / new wave in Austin, Texas, on the University Drag, which pulsated with electricity and decibels as bands like the Skunks, the Violators, the Next, and Standing Waves, in 1978 created a brand new music scene that shook off the doldrums of the Watergate, progressive country and disco era. Now it’s a sports bar, the kind of place where frats went to get drunk and say, “Let’s go beat up some punk rockers!” 

Things change. This used to be Raul’s, ground zero of punk / new wave in Austin, Texas, on the University Drag, which pulsated with electricity and decibels as bands like the Skunks, the Violators, the Next, and Standing Waves, in 1978 created a brand new music scene that shook off the doldrums of the Watergate, progressive country and disco era. Now it’s a sports bar, the kind of place where frats went to get drunk and say, “Let’s go beat up some punk rockers!”