Danny Brown Credit: Photo by Peter Beste

If End of an Ear sports an around-the-block line this Saturday, Jan. 20, here’s why: Danny Brown will be there signing records.

The event starts at 2pm, where the Austin-via-Detroit rapper will push his November LP, Quaranta. Fans hoping to meet the artist must buy a copy of the album from the South Austin shop (limited to one per person) and shouldn’t try to snap a photo due to a “restraint on time.”

Quaranta was Brown’s second album of 2023, following a collaborative release with JPEGMAFIA called Scaring the Hoes. As explained in recent press, the MC moved down south in 2021 to be closer to his then-girlfriend and launch his The Danny Brown Show podcast – and to get away from the substance abuse habit he was nursing in Detroit. Comedian Tom Segura, whose own podcast relocated to Austin around the same time, produces the show via YMH Studios.

After the move, Brown helped Oblivion Access continue expansion from metal festival to genre-diverse experimental convention with a 2022 performance. Looking ahead, the Quaranta tour stops at Empire Garage on April 11.

This article appears in January 12 • 2024.

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Carys Anderson moved from Nowhere, DFW to Austin in 2017 to study journalism at the University of Texas. She began writing for The Austin Chronicle in 2021 and joined its full-time staff in 2023, where she covers music and culture.