West 22nd put their name on a street two blocks from the Forty Acres and turned it into a national touring act in roughly three years. The short version: a debut single called “Sunburns” that crossed two million Spotify streams, an Austin City Limits slot in 2024 that made them the first band composed entirely of current UT students to earn that stage, and a debut album – Nowhere to Be on W22 Records, April 2025 – that sold out rooms in Chicago, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC on the first pass through. The fall leg is the Places To Be tour. On Friday, September 18, it lands at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater.
About West 22nd
The five members – Logan Madsen on vocals, Jeremy Ancheta on lead guitar, Gabe Acevedo on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, Jet Beck on bass, Tyler Kerch on drums – formed in 2022 out of the kinds of encounters Austin produces at a reliable rate. Ancheta heard Acevedo running acoustic covers near a food truck and brought him in. Beck and Kerch joined through flyers posted around campus. Within two years they had played SXSW, Hullabaloo, and Forty Acres Fest.
They call what they play “carousel rock” – influences spinning from the ska tempo of Vampire Weekend to the heavy bass of Cage the Elephant to the coastal acoustics of The Backseat Lovers, with a melodic instinct that runs a little older than all of that. The metaphor holds up live. The music doesn’t stay in one place, but it doesn’t lose its center either.
Nowhere to Be pulled 1.5 million streams in its first month. The supporting tour made believers in cities they’d never played before – sold-out nights in Chicago, Boston, New York, DC. They sold out Higher Ground in Vermont this past April. The Places To Be fall run extends across the country through November. This Austin date is a homecoming.
About Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater sits on Red River at the east edge of downtown Austin – a 2,500-capacity outdoor room that has served as both proving ground and homecoming stage for Austin acts across generations. For a band that started writing songs on West Campus and built its reputation on the city’s club circuit, this booking is a specific kind of marker. You play Stubb’s when the story has moved past the beginning.
Tickets & Show Details
West 22nd plays Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Friday, September 18, 2026. Doors at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $44.