Ocean Alley, Juice

Josh Ward

Son Volt, Anders Parker

Phum Viphurit, Mild Orange, Brandon

Yoke Lore

Dexter & the Moonrocks, Parker Ryan, Mitchell Ferguson

Having recently graduated from UT-Austin, Briscoe’s Truett Heintzelman and Philip Lupton lead off their first national tour with a hometown release of their debut LP, West of It All, on powerhouse indie imprint ATO. The multi-instrumentalist songwriting duo kicks with the kind of folk-pop lilt that rose over the last decade with bands like the Lumineers, yet cuts a decidedly Texas slant into the genre, literary but playful. The harmonies and twanged, banjo-plucked restlessness of lead single “The Well” capture their slightly askew Hill Country outlook, as the album pulls between cathartic howls and suavely aching ballads.

Briscoe, Thomas Csorba

Neon Trees, Laundry Day, Charming Liars

Kiana Ledé, PHABO

Patrick Droney, Cecilia Castleman

The Tallest Man on Earth, Andrea von Kampen

Nightly, Knox, Ryann

Del Water Gap, Delacey

Yves Tumor, Izzy Spears

Neil Frances

Scary Pockets, David Ryan Harris

Portugal. the Man

The Teskey Brothers, Abraham Alexander

Madison Cunningham, Miya Folick

Yahritza y Su Esencia

Dean Lewis, Sara Kays

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Dogs in a Pile

MOVED FROM EMO'S: DJ Matt Bennett

Nation of Language, Miss Grit

Sun Room, Sarah & the Sundays

Joy Oladokun, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

Joy Oladokun, NNAMDÏ

The Brook & the Bluff, Bendigo Fletcher

Treaty Oak Revival, Wyatt Weaver Band

American Aquarium, Lance Roark

Alexandra Kay, Jordana Bryant

Mickey Darling

Ryan Beatty

JP Saxe, Nicole Zignago

The Green, Mike Love (Hawaii)

Chelsea Wolfe, Divide & Dissolve

The Moss, Susannah Joffe

Mahalia, Alicia Creti

The Last Dinner Party

Mariah the Scientist, Ryan Trey

The Strumbellas, Certainly So

Bright Light Social Hour, Mo Lowda & the Humble, The Mammoths

Collie Buddz, Arise Roots

Amplify Live benefiting I Live Here I Give Here w/ Ben Kweller, Kalu & the Electric Joint, THEBROSFRESH

Impossibly fraught politically, 2024 recently closed out its first quarter. COVID’s charitable trickle-down finally trickled out. Seventeen years in, Amplify Austin of the “I Live Here I Give Here” tagline helped grow homegrown giving to the tune of $80 million-plus last month. Grunge popster Ben Kweller also gave – at the Austin Music Awards closing out February. Unveiling the first Zev Award in honor of his late son, Dripping Springs’ famed ginger dug a deeper tie to Austin. He headlines singsong electricity alongside Nigerian soul rocker-turned-Austin mainstay Kalu James and long, tall Texan roots crooners THEBROSFRESH. I rock here, I dock here. – Raoul Hernandez

Malcolm Todd, Charlie Addis

Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Donovan Woods

Despite a recent move to L.A., reliable pop-rock shapeshifter Caroline Rose maintains frequent performances and deep musical connections in Austin – including a final album cycle stop riding the complex catharsis of fifth album The Art of Forgetting (and a recent Bayonne remix). “We’re busting out all the stops before I once again hermit for many many months,” Rose wrote on IG. Opener Ian Sweet, outlet of Los Angeles indie pop balladeer Jilian Medford, also released a high-octane evolution last year in Polyvinyl select SUCKER. – Rachel Rascoe