brakence brings 'marroW' to Scoot Inn, his first Austin show since 2023

Fresh off his first album in four years, brakence plays Scoot Inn on March 9 — his first Austin date since a November 2023 stop at Come and Take It Live.

In November 2023, brakence came through Austin on the tail of his hypochondriac run and played Come and Take It Live. His return is a bigger room and a new record: brakence plays Scoot Inn on Tuesday, March 9, 2027, with a 5 p.m. start.

Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster, and the date was announced Oct. 27 as part of The Marrow Tour. Scoot Inn holds about 1,050 — roughly the size of a crowd that turns a Tuesday into an event.

The reason for the trip arrived two weeks ago. On Oct. 23, brakence released marroW, an 18-track album on Columbia. As The Fader put it, it's the hyperpop and rock artist's first full-length since his 2022 breakout, hypochondriac — four years between albums, for an artist whose audience has been waiting on every single in the meantime.

Four years between albums. One Tuesday in March to hear the new one in Austin.

The Austin date comes early on the tour. The North American run opens March 4 at Soma in San Diego and runs all the way to Aug. 21 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, a long route through coastal cities, the South and the Midwest before heading into Canada. Austin falls in the first week, which means the band and crew will be fresh and the setlist will still be new to everyone.

That's a real difference from 2023. Then, brakence was still touring an album that had come out the year before, and Austin got a set built on songs fans already knew by heart. This time, the 18 marroW songs will be barely five months old by the time he plays Scoot Inn, and the Austin crowd will be among the first to hear them live.

What to expect: the marroW material at the center of the night, with the hypochondriac songs that made his name likely in the mix too, from an artist who sits right on the line between hyperpop and rock. The show starts at 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, which is earlier than most nights at this room, so check your time before you head out.

The jump from Come and Take It Live to Scoot Inn is a good marker of how much has changed in three-plus years. The album is out now. You have four months to learn the words.

Sources: brakence at Scoot Inn (JamBase) (jambase.com); brakence: The Marrow Tour – Austin (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net); Brakence releases 'marroW,' his first album in four years (The Fader) (thefader.com); Brakence Announces North American Tour for New Album Marrow (Archyde) (archyde.com)