LIVE MUSIC ROUNDUP: WHERE TO CATCH BANDS IN AUSTIN ON OCT. 5, 2026

The Big Picture

Austin's Monday music map for Oct. 5, 2026 is a grab-bag: ACL Fest Nights shows at two venues, in-store performances, and a scattering of local gigs across the usual haunts. The day lists headlined booking for ACL Fest Nights at Historic Scoot Inn and Brushy Street Commons, a Waterloo Records in‑store, and a mix of club and dance-room dates at places like Hole in the Wall, 29th Street Ballroom, The White Horse and The Continental Club Gallery.

This is not a festival downtown so much as a corridor of single-night plugs and ticketed club sets — the kind of Monday where you can pick an early, cheap in‑store and still make a late show if you want to pretend you have energy on a Tuesday.

What Changed

The calendar shows ACL Fest Nights presented by American Express appearing on Oct. 5 at two separate listings: Saint Motel at Historic Scoot Inn and LP at Brushy Street Commons. The presence of ACL-branded nights outside the main festival weekend is the detail here: the ACL name is extending into standalone club nights on the city calendar for this date.

Also notable is Waterloo Records hosting a listed in‑store performance and record signing on Oct. 5, flagged as free by the event listing. That gives one explicit free option among otherwise ticketed club gigs on the same date.

What's Next

Key logistics the listings provide: ACL Fest Nights with Saint Motel is listed at Historic Scoot Inn (1308 E. Fourth St.); ACL Fest Nights with LP is listed at Brushy Street Commons; Waterloo Records in‑store is at 1105 N. Lamar Blvd. Several club shows are listed the same night at Hole in the Wall (2538 Guadalupe St.), 29th Street Ballroom, The White Horse (500 Comal St.), The Continental Club Gallery (1315 S. Congress Ave.) and others. The source provides direct event pages for each listing where tickets and exact door times can be found: for example, the Saint Motel ACL Fest Nights page (https://do512.com/events/2026/10/5/saint-motel-w-the-4411-tickets) and the Waterloo Records page (https://do512.com/events/2026/10/5/susannah-joffe-in-store-performance-record-signing-tickets). If you need a plan: pick the ACL-branded show you want and buy that ticket; Waterloo's in‑store is listed as free and is the only explicitly free listing shown.

Monday night is doing its usual thing: pick your poison and know where to click before you go — the calendar has the doors you need, but it doesn't print your will to leave early for work on Tuesday.