June 2015: East Seventh clubhouse Holy Mountain succumbs to closing due to Downtown’s gentrifying rents. The following month, its side wall, indie rock venue Red 7, loses a similar battle. Unbelievably, the latter loss of one of the live music capital’s central meeting places splits the live music atom, its owners both teaming with Red River mainstay the Red Eyed Fly to rise as the Sidewinder in that location and opening Barracuda in the same space as Red 7. Each venue kills it nightly, Red 7 times two.
