Porter Robinson rocketed to stardom as a teenage EDM producer before his music evolved into an ambitious, introspective form of futuristic electropop. This weekend Robinson is in performance at LiveNation's Bayou Music Center, 
downtown Houston.
He first reached mainstream chart success with vibrant electro-house tracks like 2012's "Language," a U.K. Top Ten hit. He was already a top-shelf international headliner by the time Astralwerks released his influential 2014 full-length debut, Worlds, after which he continued to branch out, earning a Grammy nomination for "Ghost Voices," a song he released under his trance/hardcore-influences alias Virtual Self. He has curated his own festival and founded a charity benefitting cancer patients in the African nation of Malawi. His long-in-the-making sophomore album, Nurture, arrived in 2021.
Near the end of 2017, Robinson debuted a brand-new project called Virtual Self. A succession of singles, including "Ghost Voices," appeared in advance of a self-titled EP, with the project's live debut occurring that December. Proving to be nearly as popular as his eponymous work, Robinson toured as Virtual Self throughout 2018, hitting major festivals like Bonnaroo and Ultra 
Music Festival and earning a Best Dance Recording nomination for "Ghost Voices" at the 2019 Grammy Awards. He kept up his typically busy schedule for the remainder of the year, launching his own curated festival called Second Skye Music Festival in Oakland and touring both as Virtual Self and under his own name. In the front half of 2020, Robinson released "Get Your Wish" and "Something Comforting" as the first two singles from his sophomore solo album, 2021's Nurture. Like his debut full-length, it topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart and marked a notable evolution from his club-driven early material to a more emotional electropop sound.