Team Trust call themselves art rock, which is somewhat fitting, but if we want to be specific, I’d call them quirk-punk. The Austin trio sounds a bit like Being Dead and your cool, Gen-X brother’s punk demos he recorded at home the summer before they wound-up on tour with Black Flag, opting for a rotisserie of raucous harmony, melting breakdowns, and swaths of minimal instrumentation with syncopated lyrics that sound like they were recorded in a tin can. It’s excellence in weird.

Team Trust releases “Wuggis” today ahead of their debut album Treat Box out later this year. You can see Team Trust at Mohawk tonight with Fifi Knifefight, Modernform, and Skratz.

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Austin’s Russell Taine, Jr. blends indie rock with an Austin and Texas twist. It’s indie music powered by chords and melodies that you imagine being played at dusk in your cool friend’s backyard with a chain link fence and an oak tree in the background. It sounds like Hole In the Wall.

Their latest single “Sidewinder” is both a perfect metaphor for that illustration and a perfect lead-in to their upcoming Ghosts EP. Like the album, “Sidewinder” is about disconnect and things slipping away…or side-slithering away. Lamenting the loss of the “Piscies Queen,” we’re right alongside Taine as he grapples with what went wrong, his current state, and the leaden question of what to do with those feelings and where to go next.

“Sidewinder” is out now. The Ghosts EP is out in November. You can see Russell Taine, Jr. Thursday, September 4th at Hole In the Wall with Small Engine Fire.

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Andrew Chasen. With the Disciples of Creation, he takes you to church. With A Giant Dog, he takes you church. Sweet Spirit makes you want to dance the night away, and Tear Dungeon drags you to the basement, ties you to the St. Andrew’s Cross, and says flogging and bastinado are for the faint of heart. But that’s what you paid for, isn’ it? You even pre-selected “emerald green silk” on the rope menu.

Tear Dungeon is truly to be seen. Between the uniform of all-white street clothes paired with leather gimp masks and the perpetual question, “what will hit me first? The music or the blood?” the magnitude and spectacle of the group speaks for itself. It’s just an added bonus that their thrash-punk sound hits just as hard.

Tear Dungeon stopped by Studio 1A to initiate our audience with a couple of old fan favorites and their new song “Kill for Health,” an unreleased track from their upcoming album on Austin’s TODO records (deets TBA).

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Jack Greenwood’s new single is dance music for sad lads. On “Four Walls,” a song about feeling trapped, the Austin-by-way-of-Wisconsin singer and producer presents a fantastical escape, evoking the moodier side of the 80s synth. The opposing dichotomy works well here; what begins with sunny textures and a fun, melodic bass spirals into a manic descent right alongside Greenwood’s lyrics. But the spiraling is still a groove machine, taking the mania to its brink before its dizzying, synthy fizzling out. Yes, it will have you dancing with tears in your eyes.

Jack Greenwood performs with Clarence James at Stubb’s Indoors this Saturday and Antone’s Sunday, August 17th, with Clarence James and Chief Cleopatra.

The Who Told You EP is out in October.

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Bay Area singer-songwriter Mae Powell‘s debut album on Karma Chief Records, Making Room for the Light, serves up a West-coast brand of vintage, pastel-colored, jazz-meets-indie-pop beauty akin to Atlanta’s Faye Webster. Her latest single “Contact High” has origins in conversations with Powell’s elderly neighbor about a song with the spirit of being high socially, but not outrightly about weed. A soundtrack to the get-together. Jazzy, groovy, and effortless, Powell does this faithfully, taking a step back in time to the days of sunken living rooms and flitting about in kaftans while you sip from that new exotic tiki drink that’s been all the rave.

“Contact High” is out now. Making Room for the Light is out August 15th.

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Despite having a name that sounds like it belongs to a member of the Cramps, Austin’s Celestine Gravely‘s brand of rock is more attuned to the likes of Patti Smith and PJ Harvey, balancing the sounds of those eras and the power of their vocals with her own stamp of songwriting. You’ve got it all here: raw vocals that go from lilt to loaded, powerful guitar riffs, and lots of fun tempo changes to keep you on your toes.

“Kill the Heather” pulls together all of Gravely’s inspirations, employing lots of starts and stops, mood changes, and the perfect touch of Riot Girrrl attitude.

Celestine Gravely plays tonight with her full trio at Valhalla with Flounce, Shared Walls, and Bad Acid.

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Austin’s Allyse crafts R&B-infused pop charms to pair with her sometimes self-empowered and sometimes vulnerable songwriting. The military brat fuses all of the cultural touchstones experienced throughout her childhood, her most sensitive song to date. “Lesson” is about just that, specifically lessons around relationships. How to not hurt others, how to be strong when you’re hurt, and more specifically, how to handle it when you’re spiraling and, in her words, wondering if you’re inadvertently going to wind up being someone else’s cautionary tale. Despite the song’s weight, Allyse deftly stays true to her “every song feels like Friday” vibes.

Allyse plays this Saturday at Center Stage on Parmer Lane off Dessau Rd.

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If you were going to try to stuff the new album from New York trio Hide and Shine into a box, it could only be a bento. The different sonic compartments, ranging from sunny indie rock to fuzzy post-punk to more meditative, goth-tinged post-punk, with the themes of metamorphosis and humbled ego pulling the meal together, under the careful mixing of Faith No More producer Matt Wallace. “Can’t Wait to Catch Fire” is a sunny, existential track, ironically catchy in that particular 90’s, tongue-in-cheek sort of way, keeping in line with the group’s new-vintage sound.

“Can’t Wait to Catch Fire” is on The Red Core, out now.

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Kileen-based rapper LYNN has bars for days and enough butter in her emotive, croony tunes to get Kerbey Lane through an Easter weekend brunch shift. By the time her debut EP Middle of Madness came out last year, she’d already added opening slots for CupcakKe and Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul, and the album landed her an official artist spot during SXSW in 2024.

Her latest single “Slow Dreamz” is another rap banger. The snap-clap beat lays a great bed, but LYNN’s cadence sounds like elevated slam poetry, providing her own momentum to her cooly-delivered fast bars without a toe out of time.

Lynn brings this energy to Stubb’s Indoors tonight for KUTX’s Summer Jam, a free show part of Hot Summer Nights.

And you can see LYNN tonight at Stubb’s Indoors for KUTX’s Summer Jam, a free show part of Hot Summer Nights. The show starts at 8:30 with a DJ set by Confucius Jones, and performances by Tommy Francisco, Chaketa B, and Maya Sampleton.

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All month long, we’ve had the pleasure of familiarizing you with one of Austin’s most ostentatious acts, J’Cuuzi. The dance punk duo of Gorge Bones and Trey Razeldazl have an insatiable appetite for the stage and pushing the boundaries of how they use it to their. Watching the faces of new audiences as they take the group in is part of the fun.

They brought their brand of indulgence to Studio 1A last week ahead of the release of their debut EP Sludge Content, out tomorrow, and their EP release show Saturday night at Mohawk — a free show part of Hot Summer Nights. You can watch the full Studio 1A video as well as the video for “Fame By Death” at KUTX.org.

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