The Outhouse was a hardcore punk music venue located east of Lawrence, Kansas, United States, on 15th Street.

The venue hosted many live music acts between the time it was leased for fraternity parties and biker bashes in 1985, until it was discovered by young rock bands desperate for a place to perform.

The growing mainstream popularity of pop punk music in the early 1990s led to the decline of the Outhouse, but what ultimately caused its closing was the Great Flood of 1993.

[citation needed] The Outhouse was unique because it was a gutted cinder-block storage garage in the middle of a corn field.

KJHK and others had made an arrangement with the Flaming Lips to play there and felt a stage was needed to attract other non-local acts.

[citation needed] The stage was a box that stood approximately a foot and a half above the cement floor.

Much later, a bar area was added to the back that was used to sell T-shirts, and other band merchandise, as well as non-alcoholic refreshments.

[citation needed] Shows at the Outhouse weren't limited to the typical hardcore genre; there were ska, alternative, thrash metal, Oi!