Slayyyter plays Emo’s Austin on September 17 — which also happens to be her 30th birthday, and that probably isn’t a coincidence. The WOR$T GIRL IN THE WORLD TOUR routes through Austin the same night she ages out of her twenties, and Emo’s at 1,600 standing feels like the right room for the occasion: big enough to make noise, intimate enough that it still means something. The Houston date at White Oak the night after is already sold out. Austin is moving faster than you’d expect.
About Slayyyter
She came up on SoundCloud out of Kirkwood, Missouri — a St. Louis suburb with nothing to do with the electro-pop she makes, which is part of the point. The self-titled 2019 mixtape introduced her to an internet that immediately wanted to call her hyperpop, a label she’s pushed back on ever since. Troubled Paradise in 2021 put her on a proper label and leaned into cleaner pop; 2023’s Starfucker pivoted hard into an ’80s-noir aesthetic. WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, out March 27, 2026, on RECORDS/Columbia, is where she actually landed. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart and hit #22 on the Hot 200, moving 27,000 equivalent units in its first week — her biggest chart performance to date.
The record is a visual album — every track has its own video or visualizer, all self-directed — pulling from late-2000s American cinema and indie sleaze. NME called it “pop that finds salvation in the underbelly of American cinema.” Slant said it “teeters on the knife’s edge between gaudiness and sheer guilty pleasure.” The lead single “Beat Up Chanel$” runs electro house with synthesizer-forward production; “Crank” has become her de facto signature, industrial techno crossed with screamo-pop edges that sounds nothing like Britney Spears but still coheres as the same artist. “Cannibalism” draws new-wave comparisons to The Rapture and Death From Above 1979. It’s a sprawling, strange, committed record, and it’s the one she’s bringing to Emo’s on the night she turns 30.
Emo’s Austin
Emo’s Austin sits on East Riverside across the Colorado River from downtown — Live Nation-operated, with a main Music Hall and an outdoor patio. Standing capacity is 1,600. Priority entry and early-access patio upgrades are available at this show. The room books mid-to-large club acts and handles the production demands of a touring electro-pop show without issue.
Tickets
Doors at 7:00 PM on Thursday, September 17. Support from Pearly Drops. Tickets via the link below. The show is part of a PLUS1 partnership: $1 from every ticket sold goes to local organizations supporting community health, well-being, and empowerment.