Seismic Dance Event 9.0: Above & Beyond, Porter Robinson and a deep techno bill at The Concourse Project

Austin's three-night dance festival runs Nov. 13–15 with 49 acts. Here's who to plan around, who to catch early, and why the room matters.

Next weekend, a converted warehouse off Burleson Road becomes the center of Austin's dance-music year. Seismic Dance Event 9.0 runs Friday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. 15, at The Concourse Project, with Above & Beyond at the top of a 49-act bill. Passes are sold through the festival's ticketing page. The event is 18 and over, and you'll need valid ID at the door.

The headliners cover a lot of ground. Above & Beyond, the trio one outlet described as pioneering, lead a top tier that also includes Porter Robinson and SG Lewis. By the size of the rooms they usually headline, though, the heaviest hitters on this bill are Mëstiza, Sara Landry, Cole Knight and KI/KI, with Brutalismus 3000, horsegiirL and VTSS close behind. That says a lot about where this festival's crowd is in 2026.

Plan around four sets. Above & Beyond is the obvious one, the name on top of the poster. Porter Robinson and SG Lewis, whom the same outlet called a versatile UK producer, are the other two names most people will have circled. And Mëstiza and Sara Landry are the acts our data says usually play the biggest rooms of anyone here, which makes their sets the likeliest to pack the floor. Check the set times when they post and plan your three nights around them.

Who to catch early? The undercard is deep. Layton Giordani, Chris Lorenzo, Max Styler, MPH, Notion and Luke Alessi were on the first lineup announcement in May, according to EDMTunes. Later additions, reported by Magnetic Magazine in September, brought in ØTTA, Chris Liebing, Maddix, SPFDJ and more.

The venue is a big part of why Seismic works. The Concourse Project sits at 8509 Burleson Road in southeast Austin, near the airport, and Cool Hunting has covered how it cultivates the city's dance-music culture. In the few years since, it has become a fixture of DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs poll, placing 27th in 2025. That's a global poll, and the club has placed in it three years running.

For Austin, that's the point. A city whose live-music identity has long been built around songwriters and bands now has a dance-music festival on its ninth edition, held in a club that keeps landing on a worldwide ranking. Seismic is no longer an outlier on the calendar. It is one of the anchors.

A city whose live-music identity has been built around songwriters and bands now has a dance festival on its ninth edition.

If you're going, plan your rides out to Burleson Road in advance, hydrate, and pace yourself. It's three nights, and the best set is often the one at the end.

Sources: Seismic Dance Event 9.0 tickets (wl.eventim.us); Beatportal: See Seismic Dance Event 9.0's Lineup (beatportal.com); EDMTunes: Seismic Dance 9.0 lineup (edmtunes.com); Magnetic Magazine: Seismic Dance Event 9.0 phase two lineup (magneticmag.com); Cool Hunting: The Concourse Project cultivates Austin's dance music culture (coolhunting.com); DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs 2025: Concourse Project (#27) (djmag.com); DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs 2024: Concourse Project (#28) (djmag.com); DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs 2023: Concourse Project (#39) (djmag.com); JamBase festival listing: Seismic Dance Event 2026 (jambase.com)