brakence brings marroW to House of Blues, his first Houston show since 2022

Four years after a night in the Bronze Peacock, the hyperpop-and-rock songwriter returns to House of Blues on Thursday, March 11, 2027, with a brand-new album to play.

The last time brakence played Houston, it was December 11, 2022, in The Bronze Peacock, the small room tucked inside House of Blues downtown. Next spring he comes back to the same building, but not to the side room: brakence plays the main House of Blues stage on Thursday, March 11, 2027, at 7 p.m., a room that holds about 1,800.

The show was announced October 27, and tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster. It's a Thursday, so plan the drive into downtown accordingly.

The jump from the Peacock to the big room tracks what has happened in between. On October 23, brakence released marroW on Columbia, which The Fader described as the hyperpop and rock artist's first full-length project since his 2022 breakout, *hypochondriac*. That was the record that was carrying him the last time he came through Texas. Four years is a long time between albums in an era when most artists drip out singles every few weeks, and it means a big share of the set in March will be songs Houston has never heard live.

The Houston date is part of a North American run built around the new album. According to Archyde, the Marrow Tour opens March 4 in San Diego at Soma and runs all the way to August 21 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, with routing through coastal cities, the South and the Midwest before heading north into Canada. Houston lands in the first couple of weeks, which usually means the band is still fresh and the new material is still settling into shape. If you like catching a show before the setlist hardens, this is the slot.

For anyone who has only heard him through headphones, it's worth knowing what kind of night this tends to be. brakence's records sit somewhere between glitchy electronic pop and guitar music, and JamBase files him under both hip-hop and EDM. That mix plays well in a room like House of Blues, which has a big floor for the people who want to move and a balcony for the people who would rather watch the production.

There is also something nice about the return being in the same building. A lot of artists who start in a club the size of the Peacock never make it to the big room upstairs, and the ones who do usually skip a city or two on the way. Houston fans who were in that December 2022 crowd have waited a long time for a second chance, and the ones who discovered him since have never had one at all.

If you're going, listen to marroW a few times between now and March. The tour is named after it for a reason, and a Thursday night in March is a lot more fun when you can sing the new ones back.

Four years after the Bronze Peacock, brakence is back in the same building, this time on the big stage.

Thursday, March 11. Downtown. Bring a friend who still has *hypochondriac* on repeat.

Sources: 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); brakence at House of Blues — JamBase (jambase.com)