Spoon, Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, have released ten albums to date including a string of five straight top 10 records: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), Transference (2010), They Want My Soul (2014), Hot Thoughts (2017), and Lucifer on the Sofa (2022). The latter earned the band its first-ever GRAMMY nomination (Best Rock Album) and was praised by Rolling Stone as “the best thing they’ve ever done.” Look for hits from the revered catalog and more when the band play SummerStage in Central Park. They’re joined by Ratboys, a prolific rock band once dubbed “the nicest indie rock band in Chicago” by Pitchfork. They’re touring behind their sixth album Singin’ to an Empty Chair, a record built around a dialogue between Steiner and a close—but estranged—loved one, which swerves between bubbly power-pop and post-country Americana. Opening the show is Brooklyn’s own BODEGA, the anti-consumerist rock band, jagged post-punk energy and social critique, whose new album will be coming out via Chrysalis Records later this Fall.