There are artists who arrive at an arena having done it the obvious way, and then there are artists who arrive having rerouted through somewhere no one predicted. Joji — born George Kusunoki Miller in Osaka, raised in part in Australia, built into an internet phenomenon through years of a YouTube comedy persona called Filthy Frank — is definitively the second kind. By late 2017 he put the character to rest entirely and began releasing music under the name he’d kept quiet: slow, introspective R&B built on lo-fi production and vocals carrying something genuinely raw in them. The arenas came faster than anyone outside his fanbase expected. The SOLARIS Tour brings him to Austin’s Moody Center ATX on Monday, July 6, 2026, at 6:30 PM — all ages.
About Joji
What makes Joji’s trajectory worth understanding before you arrive at Moody Center is the consistency underneath the reinvention. His 2018 debut, Ballads 1, hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — debut-album numbers from someone whose public identity had been almost entirely comedic. The single that became his signature, “Slow Dancing in the Dark,” has since earned five-times-platinum certification from the RIAA. Nectar followed in 2020, also reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Smithereens in 2022 produced “Glimpse of Us,” which peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100 — his highest-charting single to date.
The fourth album, Piss in the Wind, arrived in February 2026 on Palace Creek / Virgin Music Group — his first release outside the 88Rising catalog — and debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 86,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Twenty-one tracks, almost none exceeding three minutes. James Mellen of Clash Magazine called it “potentially the most authentic Joji project to date.” Critical opinion divided on the vignette-length runtime — inventive economy or structural thinness, depending on the reviewer — but the commercial and chart reception wasn’t ambiguous: the album also topped the Indie Store Album Sales, Current Alternative Albums, and Pop Albums charts simultaneously.
The SOLARIS Tour is Joji’s largest live production to date — 39 dates spanning North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and Asia. The North American leg runs June 16 through July 23, hitting arena markets from Newark’s Prudential Center to the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles to Chase Center in San Francisco. Austin on July 6 is one of two Texas stops, with Dallas following. According to Live Nation’s press materials, the setlist will span his full catalog — “Glimpse of Us,” “Slow Dancing in the Dark,” “Sanctuary” — along with first-ever live performances of tracks from Piss in the Wind.
Support for the Austin date comes from Nate Sib, an alt-R&B and electropop singer-songwriter signed to Republic Records who was named an NME essential emerging artist for 2025, and Corbin — born Corbin Beckner Smidzik, formerly known as Spooky Black — the St. Paul rapper-singer who broke out on SoundCloud circa 2014 and has since written for Future and NAV. It’s a well-constructed undercard: both acts share Joji’s tendency toward emotional directness over production flash.
The Venue
Moody Center ATX opened in April 2022 as Austin’s flagship arena and the direct successor to the demolished Frank Erwin Center on the University of Texas campus. The facility — developed by Oak View Group in partnership with Live Nation/C3 Presents, the University of Texas, and Matthew McConaughey as an investor — operates at up to 15,000 seats for full productions. An operable scrim system allows the configuration to scale down to approximately 3,500 for more intimate events; the SOLARIS Tour runs at full scale. A note for first-timers, because the name causes genuine confusion: Moody Center ATX at 2001 Robert Dedman Drive is not ACL Live at the Moody Theater downtown (2,750 capacity), nor the Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park (5,000 capacity). Three venues, three very different rooms and scales. The arena is on the UT campus, off Red River Street.
Tickets
Joji plays Moody Center ATX on Monday, July 6, 2026. Doors at 6:30 PM. The show is all ages. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.