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Here Be Monsters 2025

Here Be Monsters brings together 20 of Austin’s fearless indie-classical music groups, featuring 10 world premieres, over 2 nights —lush opera, raw electronics, exhilarating chamber pop, soulful strings, and beyond. This isn’t a concert. It’s a musical celebration, a communal voyage into the musical unknown. And you’re invited!

May 24-25
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Radio/East
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LuluFest 2025

LuluFest Austin is in its 8th year! Come for two incredible nights of music featuring acclaimed international and local jazz artists: Ada Rovatti with Randy Brecker, Dena DeRose, Caroline Trowbridge, Emily Gimble, and Peggy Stern. Tickets are available for one or both nights.

May 16-17, 7pm
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First Unitarian Universalist Church

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Flooding, Proun, Middle Mass

Kansas City’s Flooding rolls into town with a sound that teeters between beauty and brutality – think slowcore daydreams shredded by noise rock squalls, with flashes of post-hardcore tension and post-punk grit. Local shapeshifters Proun step in for direct support, while Middle Mass (who just released a split – go check it out) kicks things off with their own brand of tightly wound chaos. A night for the deep feelers and the headbangers. – Kyra Bruce

Fri., May 9, 8pm
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Chess Club
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Blank Hellscape, Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Guiding Light, Wet Dip, Gerard Cosloy

“In Austin we play any and every show. We play with indie bands, punk shows, raves, we play whatever,” Blank Hellscape vocalist Andrew Nogay told the Chronicle last month. Such is the case for the experimental electronic act’s album release/tour kickoff show, which features opening sets by Matador Records co-owner Gerard Cosloy, art punks Guiding Light, power poppers Touch Girl Apple Blossom, and noise rockers Wet Dip. The trio’s long-awaited sophomore album, Hell 2, sets Nogay’s apocalyptic spoken word imagery to glitchy samples, intricate tape loops, and the occasional pop melody. – Carys Anderson

Fri., May 9, 9:30pm. $12 cover (21+).

Hotel Vegas
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Stereo MC's, Curse Mackey [outside]

Rob Birch (vocalist/songwriter) and Nick Hallam (DJ/producer) first formed Stereo MC’s while co-founding pioneering London-based hip-hop label Gee Street Records, also home to Jungle Brothers, P.M. Dawn, and RZA/Gravediggaz material. But the label’s most notable release came from its creators in the form of 1992’s Brit Award-winning Connected album, a record (and incredible title single) nearly impossible to pin down with its trip-hop/ATL hip-hop/acid jazz trappings. After burnout from two years of touring, the duo would return in 2000 for a strong entry into the DJ-Kicks series. The group regained its footing with 2011’s booming, stadium rock-leaning Emperor’s Nightingale. – Kahron Spearman

Fri., May 9, 9pm
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Mohawk
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Tedeschi Trucks Band, Buddy Guy

The Moody Amphitheater has become a jewel in Austin’s venue firmament. It is an especially excellent place to see jam-band types of things, making it the ideal venue for this show, which is headlined by one of the truly great blues rock acts of our age – one of the very few bands in the world that can claim legitimately to be a Southern rock legacy act and deliver on that idea completely. They are playing with Buddy Guy, who, at 88 years old, is now at the outer end of the “You really need to see this genius soon” category. He also pops up in a recent vampire movie, but to get into that would be a spoiler of sorts. – Joe Gross

Fri., May 9, 7pm
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Moody Amphitheater