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Nomadic Outpost
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With South by Southwest in the rearview and Austin City Limits on the horizon, 2024’s been a landmark year for Jon Muq. This weekend, in between festival appearances, the Ugandan singer-songwriter – whose impossibly serendipitous origin story includes landing in Austin by mistake on the way to Houston, catching the attention of Dan Auerbach, and signing a record deal with the Black Keys singer’s Easy Eye Sound – premieres debut LP Flying Away with a Waterloo in-store signing. Infusing poppy R&B with Afrobeat influences, the album coasts on the cheeriness of the artist’s rocketing career with playful piano, animated acoustic strums, and Muq’s honeyed vocals. – Carys Anderson
Fri., May 31, 5pm
Waterloo Records
- ArtsOffscreen
ATX TV Festival
Everybody’s grateful to be on the other side of the WGA and SAG strikes, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot still to chew over – summed up perfectly in the title of one upcoming ATX TV Festival panel, “How the Strikes Affected … Everything.” At this long-running homegrown fest, TV fans and industry folk alike will find plenty of illuminating conversations about the state of television today, plus starry retrospectives (Suits, Halt & Catch Fire), new and returning show spotlights (Interview With the Vampire, The Big Cigar, Orphan Black: Echoes), and a special tribute to the late, great Norman Lear featuring script readings from Maude and Good Times. – Kimberley Jones
Thursdays-Sundays. Through June 2
Multiple Downtown locations
- ArtsTheatre
Chronicles of a Black Deaf Blind Girl
Hot on the heels of a production I called “rare and wonderful,” the all-ASL Deaf Austin Theatre stomps through stereotypes with their newest production. Playwright and star Ashlea Brittney Hayes pens the story of Ghari, a mid-30s deaf, blind, Black woman. She’s facing an utterly new world in the wake of a move, a new job, and a breakup. Join Ghari as she adjusts to massive changes and traverses the most dangerous scene of all – dating. If you can’t catch it live, snap up a ticket for the streaming broadcast June 1. – Cat McCarrey
May 30-June 2
Sterling Stage, 6134 E. Hwy. 290
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Curtis McMurtry (album release), Zack Wiggs, Sydney Wright
Few songwriters in Austin prove as consistently provocative as Curtis McMurtry. Restless in style and adventurous in narrative, McMurtry’s work swivels through intricately composed Americana-pop, with jazz and classical flavors in exploration of complex characters wrapped in hedonism and redemption. Fourth LP The Pollen & the Rot delivers the first of a planned four-album cycle anchored in the seasons and aptly swirls a spring awakening of lust and yearning. Behind Diana Burgess’ cello and Paul Pinon’s percussion, McMurtry’s social critiques crackle with a lascivious and lurking electricity. Zack Wiggs and Sydney Wright provide bookending support for the release show. – Doug Freeman
Fri., May 31, 8pm
Soundspace at Captain Quack's
- Music
Exploded Drawing
Austin’s preeminent experimental electronic gathering — always $5, all-ages, and presented in a warehouse-style atmosphere with visual projections — debuts in a new locale, the Cloud Tree Studios (3411 E. Fifth). Scene presenters Soundfounder and Butcher Bear fly in Nigeria-born, L.A.-based patch-cable purist Colloboh for his first Texas performance. His 2023 Leaving Records offering, Saana Sahel, mixes heady beat jazz and airy modular compositions that hold together and fall apart in ways that feel implicitly human. Texas talent hits with Flobama, Bird Peterson, Funkrula!, Collin Swayze, and Healing Systems. — Kevin Curtin
Fri., May 31
Cloud Tree
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Goatwhor*, Ungrieved, Parasiticide
Better get Ben Falgoust a helmet – or perhaps a pair of horns. Goatwhor*’s rangy and ever-raging 6-foot-2 frontman meets low-ceiling biker bar the Lost Well (maybe literally). New Orleans-blackened death/thrash dealers gallop into a favorite den of wolves – Austin – still bearing the aggravated assault of their eighth album since 1997, pandemic homicide Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven. Secret weapon Sammy Duet, band-founding guitarist, also counts Crescent City metal legacies Acid Bath and Crowbar amongst his metallic blasphemy. At Maryland Deathfest last week, more than one hesher bore a band tee proclaiming Satanic trysts. Horns up! – Raoul Hernandez
Fri., May 31, 8pm. $17 advance, $20 door (21+).
The Lost Well
- ArtsVisual Arts
Just Add Water
The instant noodle was, according to the Cup Noodles Museum, created in 1958 by Momof*cku Ando. What started as “Chicken Ramen” has expanded into an entire industry of easy-to-make, easy-to-accessorize comfort food that gets its due at this art show dedicated to the noodle. Local Asian artists like jewelry designer Year 901, ceramicist Jesse Le, multimedia artist Lian Soy, and photographer/digital artist Casey Tang will not only present artwork inspired by instant noodles but will also release limited-edition noodle-inspired products for purchase. Attend early and you may nab a free goodie bag featuring treats from the night’s sponsors: Omsom, Immi Ramen, and Sun Noodles. – James Scott
Fri., May 31, 7-10pm
9909 FM 969
- Qmmunity
Queer Show
Featuring all queer music from Natalie & Jeannie Project, Exploding Violets, BOO85, Temptrix, Jotomagico, Prom Threat, and the Side Saddles – all for the low price of a $10 suggested donation.
Fri., May 31
Sahara Lounge
- Qmmunity
Shea Butter Babies Presents: Black Is Bold
From the minds of Shea Butter Babies Productions comes a burlesque and variety show featuring all Black performers. More than an event, they say, this is "a collaborative movement rooted in the ethos of FUBU - For Us, By Us." Gothess Jasmine hosts.
Fri., May 31
The Ballroom
- ArtsTheatre
Texas Burlesque Festival
The annual celebration of the art of the ecdysiast – that’s stripping to you and me – gets the crowd warmed up with an opening show at Kick Butt Coffee before two nights of dropped, tossed, and discarded apparel at the Long Center. Proving its commitment to the history of the hurly-burly, the festival spotlights two true legends of the art of the tease: the Godfather of Neo-Boylesque, TIGGER!, and the inimitable Lovey Goldmine, an icon who worked with Scatman Crothers and Merv Griffin, on stages from Paris’ Crazy Horse Saloon to Las Vegas’ Cabaret Burlesque Palace. – Richard Whittaker
May 30-June 2
Long Center for the Performing Arts
- Music
The Queers, Noogy, Josh Langford, The Butts, Dropped Out
Kick Butt Coffee, local martial arts master Thomas Gohring’s 21st-century house of hypercaffeinated underground rock & roll, plays host this weekend to a supreme pop-punk bill. Joe King, aka Joe Queer, has led umpty-ump lineups of the Queers since forming in his native Portsmouth, N.H., in 1981. Every branch on their family tree consistently delivers gems of raw-guitared melodic wonder existing in an alternate universe where the only bands that matter are the Beach Boys and Ramones. Kick Butt rounds out the festivities with four of Austin’s finest pop-punkers: Noogy, Josh Langford Music, the Butts, and Dropped Out. – Tim Stegall
Fri., May 31, 8pm
Kick Butt Coffee
- Music
Nonprofit two-wheeled advocacy org Yellow Bike Project closes Bike Month with a fundraiser and celebration commemorating 27 years of its mission to share the joy and benefits of cycling with everyone. They’ve got a solid lineup of music from stellar Queen tribute Magnifico, plus Buttercup, known as “San Antonio’s premier life-affirming art rock band,” and local country legends Croy & the Boys. Proceeds will help the org fund its giveaway program, which last year distributed almost 1,200 bikes. First 50 early birds get a free day pass to Crux Climbing Gym. – Kat McNevins
Fri., May 31, 9pm
Hotel Vegas
- Music
Above the Law
Fri., May 31, 8pm
Hudson's on Mercer
- Music
Alex co*ke
Fri., May 31, 5:30pm
Central Market North
- Music
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Armeon, Eddie Saucedo, Wm. Barrett Simms (5:00)
Fri., May 31
Maggie Mae's
- CommunityEvents
Austin International Folk Dancers
Join AIFD for an evening of dances from around the world with no experience or partner required.
Fridays, 7-9:45pm. $5 (under 18, free).
Hanco*ck Recreation Center
- Music
- ArtsTheatre
Austin Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Theatre by any other name would be as sweet, but … there’s just something about the name “Shakespeare” that screams all the world’s a stage and we’re just living in it. And nothing screams Shakespeare more than Romeo and Juliet. Submerge yourself in a true Shakespearean experience with his famous star-crossed lovers. Tickets are free, but make sure to snap up a reservation before you head out. Feel the romance, the tension, the sorrow, in person. Besides, the Curtain Theatre’s outdoor setting is the perfect place to bask in the bard. Shakespeare and starlight?: A winning combo. – Cat McCarrey
Thursdays-Sundays. Through June 9
Curtain Theatre, 7400 Coldwater Canyon Dr.
- Music
- ArtsVisual Arts
“Carros y Cultura: Lowriding Legacies in Texas”
Thanks to Seventies funk band War, the word “lowrider” often calls to mind the unforgettable sax riff of the band’s 1975 No. 1 single. But lowrider can mean a snazzy customized car with hydraulics or a person who works on such a vehicle, and the culture around these cars has strengthened Mexican American communities in the Southwest since the Forties. Learn more about them at this exhibit featuring an interactive touchscreen mural, cars and bikes on display, and stories about the people who make lowriding a community. A member reception takes place May 18. – Kat McNevins
Through Sept. 2
Bullock Texas State History Museum
- ArtsVisual Arts
“Luster Woo” by MuthaGoose
The impeccably named MuthaGoose is the collective brainchild of artists Jill Garcia and Kim Phu. They are two of the baddest muthas around, debuting their collaborative creativity with the sly, wry, “Luster Woo” exhibit at the Butridge Gallery in the Dougherty Arts Center. Both are well-versed in playing around with mediums, crafting sculptures and paintings created from all manner of found or upcycled items. For “Luster Woo,” MuthaGoose present their nostalgic-but-modern takes on women’s issues. On Wednesday, Jill Garcia will be present for the artist reception, answering questions about the duo’s process. Check out these indelible visuals highlighting how the more things change, the more things stay the same. – Cat McCarrey
Opening reception: May 29; through June 22
Dougherty Arts Center
- ArtsVisual Arts
“Vessels – Handle With Care” by Diane Chiyon Hong
Vessel: a container that holds things. Vessel: a person infused with a quality. What quality? Any. Feel free to interpret it yourself when basking in Diane Chiyon Hong’s exhibit “Vessels – Handle with Care.” Her architectural sketches, part function, part form, part object, part person, part humor but all thought-provoking, currently grace the halls of the Asian American Resource Center. It’s Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Month, so why not pay the AARC a visit. I mean, if not now, when? – Cat McCarrey
Through July 5
Asian American Resource Center
- ArtsVisual Arts
“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” asks the poet Mary Oliver. So do the artists Amanda McInerney and Lana Waldrep Appl, taking inspiration from Oliver’s question to create works highlighting the small but important beauties in our lives. McInerney’s work presents bold, botanical elements through mediums from print to stitched mixed-media art, confident graphics speaking against the unknowns in the world. Appl is a perfect highlight with that, her object-based work (showing plants, toys, ceramics) begging us to consider what is useful and actually important in the small moments. – Cat McCarrey
Opening reception: Fri., May 24; on view Fri. & Sat. through June 22
ICOSA
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Barfield the Tyrant
Fri., May 31, 10pm. $12 cover (21+).
- Music
Fri., May 31, 7:30pm
- CommunityEvents
Bike Month
I’ll admit it: I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein, or Superman. All I wanna do is bicycle! Bike Month ATX promises two-wheeler fun for the whole month of May. Break out the 10-speed, the recumbent, the cruiser, and join your fellow cyclists in the last nice weather days in Austin. There’s bike polo on May 5, or an all-level ride around Walnut Creek on the 19th. Help with meal delivery on the 22nd or pedal under a full moon on the 24th. Find pretty much every kind of bike fun under the sun (and moon!) at bikemonthatx.com, because those bicycle races? They’re coming your way. – James Scott
Mondays-Sundays. Through May 31
Multiple locations
- Music
Billy Glitter, The Macks, Juniper Berries
Fri., May 31, 6pm. $10 cover (21+).
Hotel Vegas
- Music
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