The Garden are headlining Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Friday, September 11 as part of Levitation 2026 — and the routing tells a specific story. Wyatt and Fletcher Shears are coming to Austin directly off arena support slots with The Strokes in August, playing Bend, Vancouver, and Seattle before they step onto the Red River stage. Those are 6,000-seat rooms. Stubb’s outdoor holds 2,500. That’s not a step backward — that’s two different versions of the same band operating in the same month, and the contrast is worth paying attention to.
About The Garden
The Orange County identical twins have been building their own corner of punk-adjacent experimental music since 2011 — Wyatt on bass and vocals, Fletcher on drums and vocals, both working with pre-recorded parts that fill out a sound bigger than two people should be able to produce. They call their genre “vada vada,” which is their shorthand for: don’t bother filing it anywhere. The catalog earns that claim. Early minimalist garage-punk on The Life and Times of a Paperclip gave way to jungle electronics and producer Rob Schnapf on haha (2015, Epitaph), spaghetti-western textures folded into drum & bass on Mirror Might Steal Your Charm (2018), industrial-leaning production on Kiss My Super Bowl Ring (2020), and a stripped-down return to punk instincts on Horseshit on Route 66 (2022, self-released after leaving Epitaph). Their latest single, “Ugly,” reaches into western and Americana territory — abandoned desert towns in the video, deliberately exaggerated twang in the vocals, a meditation on California and the music industry masquerading as glamour.
The live resume has gotten hard to dismiss. They sold out the 6,700-capacity Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in November 2024. Tour support for Knocked Loose in spring 2025 and Turnstile in the fall put them in front of rooms that don’t go easy on openers. The Strokes arena slots this summer are the highest-profile billing yet. Support acts for the Stubb’s date are listed as special guests and haven’t been announced.
About Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater sits at 801 Red River St — 2,500-capacity, Live Nation-operated, and anchoring the main stage for Levitation 2026. The festival returns this year to its original citywide format across the Red River Cultural District (September 10–13), spreading shows across Mohawk, Hotel Vegas, 29th St Ballroom, Elysium, and more after a year concentrated at Palmer Events Center. Individual show tickets are on sale alongside four-day festival passes.
Tickets
The Garden play Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Friday, September 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now.