slacker rock

Touring costs keep climbing, the tariffs keep stacking, and the U.S. is barely on speaking terms with its neighbors. Add corruption and wars nobody asked for. You’d forgive a Canadian band for skipping the U.S. leg of their tour. Toronto psych-punk risers Wine Lips came down anyway, keeping up a regular Austin habit with one of their best visits yet. Their opening slot for Death From Above 1979 got scrapped, and they still landed at 29th Street Ballroom, a few blocks off the UT campus, on Monday, October 19. With TV Dinner, a new album that doesn’t ease off the party one bit, 2026 has been shaping up as the year nothing slows them down.