As many people know, the musical mural on 12th & Chicon in Austin has been buffed and replaced by the new ownership. While not a direct effect of gentrification (as some would have you believe), it is a sign of shifting cultural values in one of the last native-Austinite bastions of the city. This story was particularly heartbreaking because it affected a new friend, Chris Rogers (painter of several amazing J Dilla prints hanging on my walls). As a bonus, here is footage of him creating that wall…
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