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To be honest, I’m having a hard time remembering when I first came across the leather-clad grandeur that is Chris Conde. It very well may have been a shout-out from another Austin legend, Mama Duke, at one of the first shows I ever attended with her as the headliner. It might have been a passing fancy that crossed my desk in the shape of a rapping metal-cased butterfly (#IYKYK). What I do know is that when I heard their acoustic version of Nineties Freaknik hood classic “Freak Like Me” by queen Adina Howard, I was irrevocably in love. It’s quite fitting that this NB shibari darlin’ will take the Little Darlin’ stage to ring in the nation’s near Semiquincentennial. The Notorious F.A.G. comes home after being away for a few years, and shares the spotlight with “Austin’s prevailing rock and roll glamour boy,” Caleb De Casper. – Cy White

Marshall Jefferson has told interviewers how he was moonlighting as a DJ and working in a post office in the 1980s when, not yet able to play even one instrument, he bought about $10,000 worth of keyboards, sequencers, drum machines, and recording mixers. Punked mercilessly by his friends, he nonetheless went on to create one of Chicago house’s early hits, popularized by Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan, sending his star soaring. “Move Your Body” is still rinsed endlessly. Jefferson says the sound came from having no idea what he was doing, which does little to dim a househead’s joy. – Christina Garcia