Arlo McKinley and Tommy Prine

Friday 13, Sagebrush

John Prine's legacy is still evolving five years after his death, evidenced by the strength of his label Oh Boy Records and the emergence of his son, Tommy Prine, into his own songwriting style. Cincinnati native Arlo McKinley represents the former behind 2022 LP This Mess We’re In and a new live platter Live at the Burl, where he cuts introspective and restless ballads. Prine diverges from his father with 2023 debut This Far South, hanging on his powerful clear vocals and more rock-influenced arrangements. The mighty West Texas Exiles fire up late.   – Doug Freeman

Glaze Magazine Presents: License to Slay

Friday 13, Parish

Glaze emerged from UT-Austin like a glamorous interstellar being in 2019 and has spent the intervening years primping and preening with imaginative zeal. Each glossy volume takes up a fantastical theme and presents a menagerie of art across creative fields, with an eye toward mythical existentialism and ecstatic transformation. To celebrate the release of their seventh volume, “Zenith,” Glaze is packing the runway with independent designers and filling the airwaves with hypnotic local acts: beach-fuzz-rockers DAIISTAR and garage-punk-shoegazers Sad Cell. With DJs, local vendors, and a midnight magazine cover reveal, high-stakes glamour has been promised.   – Caroline Drew

Death From Above 1979

Friday 13, Empire Garage

Canadian noise rock duo Death from Above 1979 (bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger) arrived tardy to the early-Aughts rock explosion with their propulsive and thumping 2004 debut You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, spawning "Romantic Nights" (and its numerous remixes) and "Blood on Our Hands." Creative difficulties led to a 2006 breakup, only to be followed by a reformation in 2011 and the release of a punishing, long-awaited follow-up, The Physical World, in 2014. 2017's Outrage! Is Now saw the duo fold social commentary into a classic rock/metal amalgam.   – Kahron Spearman

Babestock Music Festival

Saturday 14 - Sunday 15, Cheer Up Charlies

It feels like it should’ve existed already, but DJ Hip Stir had to make it real. We mean Babestock Music Festival, “America’s first and only electronic music fest with an all-female and gender-expansive lineup.” That’s a two-day hootenanny with around 30 artists playing “everything from darkwave to drum and bass, reggaeton, and house,” said Hip Stir, a DJ with vision. Performers come from Austin, like gothic synth artist SINE and reggaeton party starter DJ La Moon, but also far beyond, including the Mexico-based Black Daria, back for a second year. Truly a wild mash-up of sounds, Babestock is all babes.   – Christina Garcia

Songs in the Key of Liberation: A Black Music Showcase

Saturday 14, Antone’s Nightclub

You’ve got a lot of great Juneteenth events to choose from this week. Perhaps most recognizable, the Carver Museum’s annual Stay Black and Live cookout and music festival returns to the historic Rosewood neighborhood with notable names Blakchyl, Taméca Jones, and more. If you’d rather stay indoors, this Antone’s lineup, curated by local org Smile Blaack, offers plenty of proverbial heat with sounds from DJ New Rouge, dreamy hip-hop acts Mike Melinoe and Magna Carda, tongue-in-cheek twerk healer Ladi Earth, and super-huge “GuitaR&B” siblings THEBROSFRESH. On Freedom Day, liberation sounds like so many things.   – Carys Anderson

Alex Dupree and Max Knouse

Saturday 14, Chess Club

Some musicians believe that songwriting is like poetry. Alex Dupree, who began playing in Austin’s riverbeds, motel rooms, and church attics long before the city’s unconventional music sites became plagued with condos, is no exception. Dupree’s lyric-driven folk songs, he once said, are “music for people who like words, words for people who like music.” So, if you like words (I’m going out on a limb to say you do since you’re reading this), and if you like music (who doesn’t?), and if you still like what’s left of Austin, then perhaps you’ll also like Dupree, in all his Old Austin folk glory.   – Levi Langley

Body Rock ATX: Tribute to Prince

Saturday 14, Parish

It’s coming up on a decade since Prince died at age 57, but the iconic artist is still as beloved and relevant today. Celebrate what would’ve been his 67th birthday with Body Rock ATX, a monthly event turning 15 this year founded by Riders Against the Storm and DJ Chorizo Funk, who’ll be manning the turntables for the dance party. So pop on your “Raspberry Beret” and hop in your “Little Red Corvette” to head over to Parish and party like it’s “1999.”   – Kat McNevins

A Tribute to Harry Nilsson

Sunday 15, C-Boy’s Heart & Soul

"Imagine all the people/ Livin’ life in peace/ You." Now imagine the bigger-than-Jesus freak who wrote that ("Imagine there’s no heaven...") and who HE venerated. Brooklyn-born Harry Nilsson maybe never hoped to turn 83 this Sunday, but his bona fides as an American great extend light years beyond vocal ecstasy ("Without You"), Oscar brushes ("Everybody's Talkin'") and lime ("Coconut"). 2013's The RCA Albums Collections box set remains an undersung great American songbook. ATX greats the Greyhounds, Cactus Lee, and a clutch of local muses including Dustin Welch, Sarah Lee Guthrie (note both those surnames for provenance), Sahara Smith, Alice Spencer, and more tip one for Harry.   – Raoul Hernandez

Wu-Tang Clan and Run the Jewels

Sunday 15, Moody Center

Every head of a certain age remembers where they were the first time they heard the Wu-Tang Clan. (It was either “Protect Ya Neck” or “C.R.E.A.M.”) It was a life-altering Nineties pop moment, a reckoning up there with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “Pony” – a moment of “Oh, we’re going this way now.” Few years there, they were unstoppable, album after solo album of dusty soul samples, snares that would cut your head off, and gnomic impenetrable lyrics. Like many pop phenomena, they had a whole deal you could buy into, from clothes to a mythology. Never had so many white people learned different meanings of “gods” and “earths.” The Clan seems to be hanging it up, at least live (they just did a Vegas residency, so it’s time), so final respects are due. With Run the Jewels, who copped a great deal of their sound from these gents.   – Joe Gross

Peach Pit

Monday 16, Moody Amphitheater

Spend your Monday evening with Peach Pit on their Long Hair, Long Life tour along with Briston Maroney. The Canadian indie rock band’s set list will range from feel-good favorites to singular songwriting that tugs at your nostalgic heartstrings. If you’re a Peach Pit fan, you’re likely already a fan of Maroney, known for his alt rock hits “Freakin’ Out on the Interstate” and “Small Talk.”   – Sammie Seamon

Louisiana Surf Department, West Texas Exiles, and William Harries Graham

Wednesday 18, Continental Club

Gulf Coasters Louisiana Surf Department weave laid-back coastal grooves into a uniquely Texan soundtrack: chilled surf riffs meeting shimmer-bright songwriting. Austin-brewed Americana outfit West Texas Exiles balances wide-sky lyricism with rootsy heart, blending Flatlanders-meets-Isbell sincerity across canyon-sized soundscapes. Local singer-songwriter William Harries Graham steps in for his dad, Jon Dee Graham, assuming his father’s traditional Wednesday night residency. As Jon Dee battles post-surgical sepsis, including treatments insurance won’t cover, William becomes both caregiver and torchbearer, stepping into his father’s shoes with open-eyed grace and fierce devotion.   – Tim Stegall

Austin Jazz Legends: A Celebration of Three Years of Midweek at Monks

Wednesday 18, Monks Jazz

The Austin Jazz Society has been presenting Wednesday shows at Monks Jazz for three years – indeed, the AJS has been a staunch supporter of Colin Shook’s now-thriving club. To raise a glass to their successful partnership, the organization taps a dozen musicians with ATX jazz careers going back as long as 40 years. There’s not enough room to name them all, but the presence of singer Pam Hart, guitarist Mitch Watkins, pianist Hank Hehmsoth, saxist John Mills, trombonist Freddie Mendoza, bassist Roscoe Beck, trombonist/bassist Jon Blondell, and MC Rabbi Neil Blumofe should be enough to set Austin jazz fans’ hearts aflutter.   – Michael Toland

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Music Notes

by Derek Udensi

BANKS

Friday 13, ACL Live at the Moody Theater

This alt-pop artist from Southern California tours in support of her latest album, Off With Her Head. English singer Absolutely opens.

Terrence Léon Birthday Bash

Saturday 14, Flamingo Cantina

R&B local Terrence Léon hosts a celebration for Geminis. Bianca B-Lo, Daya Dai, and The Flexcast podcast co-host Nubia Emmon are some of the performers ushering smooth vibes onto Sixth Street.

Tearjerk

Saturday 14, Radio/East

Vanessa Jollay and company build anticipation for their first project since the folksy rock 2023 EP Face to Face with a single release show. This show debuts their upcoming album’s first single, “wind.” Possessed by Paul Jones opens.

Juneteenth Celebration

Thursday 19, Hotel Vegas

Freedom Day brings several top-tier locals for an uncommon, two-stage rap show at the enjoyable East Sixth locale. Geto Gala stays busy as they grace the Vegas patio two weeks after a trip overseas for SXSW London. The duo supports patio closer the Teeta. Cha’keeta B pops out on the inside stage three days before the latest edition of her Kinky Curly Coily Fest. Kydd Jones punctuates the evening indoors.

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Editor's Note: Nubia Emmon's name has been corrected; it is Emmon, not Emon. The Chronicle regrets the error.