Besame Mucho w/ Peso Pluma, Carin León, Ramón Ayala, Banda MS, Pepe Aguilar, Los Tigres del Norte, Aldo Trujillo, more

“Booked like first-year Lollapalooza and staged à la ACL Fest, COTA’s Latin music eclipse Besame Mucho manifested a first for Austin: Brown music for brown people, tens of thousands of them.” So began the Chron’s live shot of last year’s four-stage, 12-hour, 84-act debut, which here stacks some 50 names onto the poster. From ACL 2024 breakout Carin León to headlining comet Peso Pluma, the second iteration also boomerangs alt-Latinx legends Enanitos Verdes and Molotov, plus norteño accordion king Ramón Ayala. Amidst a male-dominated curation, Mexican grupero queen Ana Bárbara and Spanish superstar Mónica Naranjo demand attention. – Raoul Hernandez