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Austinite Bands

The 50 most-read Austinite bands, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.

147 bands are ranked in Austin. The biggest move was The Golden Dawn, up 21 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Die Spitzgrunge, punk	16,794	0
02	The Sworddoom metal, heavy metal	8,554	+8
03	13th Floor Elevatorspsychedelic rock, acid rock	8,003	0
04	Explosions in the Skypost-rock, instrumental	7,477	+1
05	Spoonindie rock, alternative rock	7,228	-3
06	The Jesus Lizardnoise rock, post-hardcore	6,663	-2
07	Fastballpop rock, power pop	5,970	-1
08	Black Pumaspsychedelic soul, southern soul	5,490	+1
09	The Black Angelspsychedelic rock, stoner rock	4,533	+2
10	…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Deadalternative rock, art rock	4,290	-2
11	MDCpunk, hardcore punk	3,055	+1
12	Stars of the Lidambient, drone	2,822	+3
13	Catch Your Breathnu metal	2,806	+4
14	Dangerous Toyshard rock, southern rock	2,498	0
15	The Band of Heathensamericana, roots rock	2,471	+7
16	Arc Angelsblues rock, electric texas blues	2,469	0
17	Palternative rock	2,328	+1
18	VASTalternative rock, industrial rock	2,144	+1
19	White Denimindie rock, psychedelic rock	2,115	-6
20	portrayal of guiltblack metal, screamo	2,045	0
21	Scratch Acidnoise rock, post-hardcore	1,985	0
22	Okkervil Riverindie rock, folk rock	1,919	+3
23	Shearwaterfolk	1,911	0
24	Fire From the Godsmetal, metalcore	1,795	+3
25	Watchtowertechnical thrash metal, thrash metal	1,782	-1
26	Big Boyschristian hardcore, pigfuck	1,617	+3
27	Deviceindustrial metal, alternative metal	1,520	+1
28	The Gourdsalternative country, honky tonk	1,095	+2
29	Ghostland Observatoryalternative dance, electroclash	1,045	+7
30	Dicksqueercore	971	+1
31	Willie Nelson and The Familycountry	934	-24
32	Voxtrotindie pop, indie rock	872	0
33	MISSIOindie rock, rock	859	+2
34	Balmorheapost-rock, instrumental	855	+6
35	Chingóngarage rock, blues rock	837	-2
36	Ünlocoalternative metal, nu metal	769	-2
37	Survivedark wave, electronic	654	+2
38	Wild Childindie folk, indie pop	625	+3
39	Iriselectronic rock, alternative dance	580	+3
40	Cherubsnoise rock, pigfuck	561	+10
41	Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!alternative rock	532	-3
42	The Octopus Projectelectronica, experimental	529	-5
43	Skrewindustrial metal, thrash metal	527	+2
44	The Bright Light Social Hourblues rock, alternative dance	512	+9
45	Honey Clawsgrime, electronic	490	+3
46	Tritonalelectro house, electronic	484	-3
47	Salvadorcontemporary christian	476	-1
48	Street Sectsindustrial, electronic	463	-4
49	The Golden Dawnpsychedelic rock	443	+21
50	The Geezinslawscountry	435	+4

Rising outside the top 50this month

122	Future Clouds and Radarindie rock	56	+16
105	Speakindie pop	81	+13
100	Sound Teamindie rock	90	+12
112	Balcones Faultjazz	70	+12
128	Sounds Under Radioalternative rock	46	+12

Adjacent scenes

How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in October 2026; movement compares that against September 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.