What’s Cookin’ in Fleshwater —Artist Spotlight
hard-charging, volatile, and unexpectedly intimate
Fleshwater’s rise has been marked by a pattern: small rooms becoming pressure cookers, crowds navigating sound that doesn’t behave, and a band intent on testing how far heavy music can bend without snapping. Their upcoming San Antonio date, presented by Twin Productions, lands in that same tension point. And based on recent reporting from their first headlining run — described as “hard-charging, volatile, and unexpectedly intimate” in Charlottesville’s Jefferson Theater — April 4 at Paper Tiger may be the breakthrough they’ve been manifesting.
“2000 in Search of the Endless Sky,” their debut LP, has already drawn wide-ranging analysis for its refusal to commit to genre boundaries, with reviewers noting the album’s “restless, shifting center of gravity” and the way its dynamics collapse and rebuild unpredictably . Those themes have carried into their live approach, where the set structure tends to feel liek this continuous recalibration. San Antonio gives them particular leverage; recent headlining shows demonstrated how quickly smaller venues become part of the performance itself, amplifying the band’s swings rather than containing them.
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A support act is still TBA, but that absence has become part of the appeal. On previous runs, San Antonio openers have pushed audience attendance before touring artists are even considered. Twin Productions’ track record across Paper Tiger — routinely curating lineups that reshape how each band is interpreted — makes the reveal worth watching.
As April approaches, the question isn’t whether Fleshwater will draw a crowd. It’s what kind of night that crowd will walk into. Their discography suggests one thing, their recent tour reporting another, and Paper Tiger’s tight interior yet another variable. What seems most likely is a show defined by impact — the kind of night that becomes difficult to summarize afterward, except in the feeling that something shifted.
LINEUP
Fleshwater
VENUE
Paper Tiger — San Antonio, TX
Doors: 7:00 PM