Store
Waterloo Records & Video
Independent record store staging free in-store concerts by touring and local musicians.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Waterloo Records in Austin traces its start on the first of April, nineteen eighty-two, when two rival record men, Louis Karp and John Kunz, each opened a store on the very same day. It follows how their store became the city's unofficial stage, hosting free in-store sets from Nirvana to Norah Jones, and carries the story through Kunz's forty-two years running it and its twenty twenty-five sale to a new generation of owners. Listen for the bands still setting up where the record bins used to be.
This audio guide was created using AI.