The Red River Podcast: Stories of Music, Culture, and Community

Flamingo Cantina owner and Red River Cultural District board member Angela Tharp has been one of Austin’s most stalwart supporters of reggae, world music, and a cornucopia of other genres for almost 35 years. Find out how Angela parlayed one night selling tacos on Halloween in the burned-out space between two buildings on East 6th Street into a venerable club that has fostered a vibrant local scen...

If you spent any time along Red River in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you couldn’t have missed Wendy Nelson, a.k.a. Wendy WWAD (as in “What Would Ace Do?”) . She ran Rank N Revue alongside partner Brenna Parthmore, a freebie tabloid zine that gave voice to the emerging Red River music district and provided in-depth coverage of the goings-on at mainstay venues like Room 710, Red Eyed Fly, Elysiu...

Jump into the Red River Podcast with Roger Collins , co-owner of legendary Red River haunt the One Knite during its early 1970s live music heyday. Settle in as we crack open the One Knite’s coffin-shapped doors to hear about how Joe Ely and the Flatlanders found their footing on the One Knite’s tabletop stage and how a teenage Stevie Vaughan became Stevie Ray. Along the way, we’ll hear about the m...