a social media post<\/a> on Saturday, the venue\u2019s owner announced the closure, saying the building at 710 Red River St. had been sold to new owners who were terminating the lease.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to write one\u2019s own obituary, but in this rare case I have that opportunity,\u201d owner Seth Levy wrote.<\/p>\n
Levy said with 60 days remaining on the lease, Valhalla\u2019s last day will be Oct. 26.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to maybe just get till Halloween, we\u2019ll see. Fingers crossed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
The dive bar, known for hosting punk, metal and alternative music acts, opened in November 2009.<\/p>\n
Levy said he has lived in Austin since 1995. Before opening Valhalla, he worked at Flamingo Cantina, followed by Room 710 in 2000, then Elysium in 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there I cooked up this idea to open Valhalla,\u201d Levy said. \u201cFor the last 30 plus years I\u2019ve had the best seat in Austin for local, national and international bands. This scene can be magical. The local talent is and has been some of the best and literally the soundtrack of most of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The venue still has some days left open for shows before the closure, Levy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, 59 days, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll shed my fair share of tears in the coming days as I see so many dear friends and regulars and reflect on past times but we\u2019ve got 59 days to make a few more memories,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe stories that are in the walls of 710 red river are my stories and your stories. I\u2019ll miss them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building at 710 Red River St. has been sold to new owners who are terminating the venue’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-421563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}