Not even a year old but already one of Austin's prime sites for the alternative music crowd, the Electric Lounge suddenly burned down this past February just before SXSW. While owners Jay Hughey and Mark Shuman carried on through the shindig as the Electric Lounge Revival Tent, it took less than three months for the newly refurbished club to reopen in early May. Though the club looks almost exactly the same as it did in its pre-fire days, the stage and seating are now bigger - not to mention the fact that the air conditioning blows twice as hard. We suppose the local bands like the new club twice as much too.
