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Poppy
Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater — Austin, TX
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About Poppy

Poppy started as a YouTube oddity in 2014, posting weird thirty-second clips that somehow felt creepy and hypnotic. Her early music mixed bubblegum pop with unsettling production and imagery that made people uncomfortable on purpose. She's collaborated with producers like Grimes and Morgan Simpson, shifting between glossy pop-punk on records like Flux and heavier, more experimental sounds on Desire: I Want to Turn Into You. Her thing is refusing to stay in one lane. One moment she's doing infectious pop hooks, the next she's in a rabbit hole of industrial noise and conceptual weirdness. Live, she commands a room with an almost cult-like intensity, and her fanbase treats her output like a puzzle to decode. She's essentially proof that you don't need a clear genre to build something genuinely weird and genuinely hers.

Poppy's shows are tight and deliberately eerie. She moves with mechanical precision, the crowd hangs on every moment, and there's an unsettling focus to the whole thing that makes it feel less like entertainment and more like witnessing something you shouldn't.

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Poppy + Austin

Poppy hit Emo's in April 2025 for a set that showed exactly why she's become one of the more uncompromising acts in alternative music. She opened with "have you had enough?" and spent the next hour moving between her harder industrial moments and the more algorithmic pop that initially made her name. "Scary Mask" landed somewhere in the middle—that unsettling space where she's most interesting—while "I Disagree" felt like a thesis statement, defiant and metallic. The setlist leaned into her recent work but also circled back to "Concrete," proof that her older material holds up without nostalgia as a crutch. She closed with "new way out," which felt less like an exit and more like a statement. Poppy's never played it safe in Austin, and this show was no exception.

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Live Music in Austin

Austin's music scene has always been bigger than its reputation suggests, and Poppy fits that contradiction. She's not a folk singer or a classic rock revivalist, which means she exists slightly outside the city's comfort zone—but that's exactly where the interesting stuff happens. The venue crowd that shows up for her is the same one chasing experimental production and artists who treat genre like a suggestion rather than a mandate. Austin likes to think it's weird, but Poppy actually is.

Austin road trip to see Poppy?

Stay in East Austin, where you'll find better restaurants and a neighborhood that actually feels alive. Dinner at Suerte—confident, creative food in a space that doesn't try too hard. During the day, wander the galleries and vintage shops along East 6th, or head to Zilker Park to sit with a coffee and watch Austin be itself. If you've got time, catch live music at Mohawk or Hotel Vegas—smaller rooms where you can see how Austin's songwriting community actually operates. The city's best asset isn't any single thing; it's the density of good people doing interesting work.

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