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Austin doesn’t get a lot of ink for its hip-hop scene, but on his 2022 magnum opus 5th Wheel Fairytale, Deezie Brown pooled his resources to create a defining local statement. Tapping, among others, Malik Baptiste, Mobley, Jackie Venson, and the Peterson Brothers, the Bastrop-born rapper-producer-general artistic multihyphenate spun tumbling beats, buzzing synths, soaring horns, and soulful group vocals into a lush, melodic take on southern Black life. He’s paired on this Juneteenth bill with funk-soul-rock sextet the Past Lives, whose February EP Purple Dreams masters groovy sexcapade soundtracks (“All Night”) alongside Eighties rock rhythms (“Gemini”). Extravagant and unfettered – as we should be, on Freedom Day.  – Carys Anderson

Heralded as a soft take on alt-rock, a slippery embrace of reverb, an accessible pop future, last year’s Suntub by ML Buch (pronounced “book”) opened up. The fact that the Copenhagen-based composer and producer’s first-ever North American tour kicks off with a Radio/East gig presented by Best of Austin winner Radio Coffee & Beer is kind of astounding. With Brooklyn and L.A. dates already sold out, Marie Louise Buch’s guitar-based music conjures her self-recording environment in the coastal Danish town of Kalundborg, aided in ATX by drummer Rebecca Molina. I request that Radio book Buch’s buddy, fellow Scandi experimentalist Astrid Sonne, next. – Rachel Rascoe