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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 + San Antonio

Poppy hit The Aztec Theatre in San Antonio on April 19, 2025, running through a setlist that balanced her heavier material with the kind of introspective moments that define her recent work. She opened with "have you had enough?" and moved through "BLOODMONEY" and "Sit/Stay" with the precision of someone who's refined her craft considerably. The deep cuts landed hard—"the cost of giving up" and "they're all around us" showed a band locked in, while "crystallized" and "surviving on defiance" proved she's still capable of the kind of visceral payoff her audience comes for. She closed the main set with "new way out," a track that feels like it could only work in rooms where people are actually paying attention.

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Live Music in San Antonio

San Antonio's music landscape tilts heavily toward Tex-Mex, country, and regional genres rooted in the city's cultural backbone. Artists like Poppy—operating in the experimental pop and alternative space—represent a smaller but dedicated subset of the local concert scene. The Aztec Theatre itself has become a key venue for touring acts that don't fit neatly into the city's traditional music categories, making it a reliable stop for artists exploring the edges of pop and electronic music.

San Antonio road trip to see Poppy?

Stay in Southtown, where the gallery scene and restored Victorian homes give you something real to walk through between dinner reservations at Cured, which does thoughtful Italian-influenced cooking without pretension. Catch the show, then spend the next morning at Pearl Brewery itself—the district's worth an hour of wandering. The Majestic Theatre or the Tobin Center are your likely venues depending on the tour routing. Head to the McNay Art Museum if you've got afternoon time; it's one of the better regional collections in Texas and won't feel like you're wasting daylight.

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