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The band celebrates the release of their debut EP at Mohawk on July 26
Austin’s J’cuuzi are about as avant-garde as you can get. Or as I like to call them, pop-vantgarde. They’re too electronic to be post-punk, too post-punk to be considered electronic, and a hair too melodic to be straight noise rock. But it’s hot, wild, and maybe a little dangerous, like a Jacuzzi.
Their live shows match their songwriting: performing on a stage made to look like a scantily clad apartment filled with its members strutting in outrageous, matching homemade costumes that could be described as sideshow couture. All the while, their insatiable high-octane energy locks you in.
J’cuuzi is set to release their debut album, SLUDGEcontent, on July 25th with a release show at Mohawk the following night, July 26, as part of Red River Cultural District’s Hot Summer Nights. The band says the songs of SLUDGEcontent “bounce between sardonic musings on the woes of post-capitalist life (“How 2 Get Everything You’ve Always Wanted 4 Free Forever”), campy horror-infused tales of haunted vibrators (“Bad Toy”) and serpentine sex workers (“Fame by Death”), painting the dread of a sudden trip to the mechanic with the hues of a Hanna-Barbara cartoon.”
Stay tuned for lots more from our July 2025 Artist of the Month, and in the meantime, take a peek at the unhinged music video for the song “How 2 Get Everything You’ve Always Wanted 4 Free (Forever).”
