It’s relevant, purposeful dance music with a point of view. It plays out like the most menacing Pilates class ever.

When she wasn't wowing crowds at ACL 2024, multi-award-winning artist and headliner Dua Lipa was exploring Austin, making stops at La Barbecue and the Broken Spoke.

Seated onstage atop a wheeled platform, its rug spreading out their guitars and miniature metropolis of pedals, Hermanos Gutiérrez put in the traditionally biggest ask of ACL Fest throughout its 22-year-history: listen under that atomic Texas sun.

The pop sensation's ACL set was a nonstop hit parade with Vegas-level choreography. Of course she closed with "Houdini." Magic was made.