Taking Back Tacos was formed from local Austin area musician wanted social media groups in 2025.
We've created a set list from all of your favorite bands from your glory days.
Check out our upcoming show page to see where we are playing next. Our shows often have a theme that require audience participation. Be ready to sing, drink, have fun, and be loud!
Come celebrate Taking Back Tacos 1 year anniversary show! We will have Dropped Out, and Killer Tango opening this show. These guys are two amazing local pop punk bands. We are gonna party like it's 2006. It's only $10. Come on out and lets party. 21+. Doors at 8pm.
💃 1st Annual Tacos in Tuxedos: Prom Night in Marble Falls 🕺 The Hill Country’s Loudest Prom is coming to Brass Hall!
Get ready for a full-on pop punk / alt rock prom night with Taking Back Tacos, joined by Foo Shot (Foo Fighters Tribute) and Firecracker Smile (Stone Temple Pilots Tribute) for a stacked night of huge singalongs, loud guitars, and prom-night chaos done the right way.
Throw on your best prom attire (or your best version of it) and come party with us in Marble Falls for a night of nostalgia, crowd vocals, and killer live music.
🎸 Live Music From: Taking Back Tacos – Pop Punk / Emo Cover Band Foo Shot – Foo Fighters Tribute Firecracker Smile – A Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots
👑 Prom Night Extras: Prom Attire Encouraged $50 Brass Hall Gift Card for Best Dressed Prom King & Queen Selection Prom Photos Available
📍 Event Info: Brass Hall – Marble Falls, TX Saturday, May 23, 2026 Doors @ 7PM $15
Come dressed to impress, sing your lungs out, and help us make the 1st Annual Tacos in Tuxedos the loudest prom Marble Falls has ever seen.
Grab your date, your crew, or roll in solo — just don’t miss it.
💃🖤 ROCK PROM: The Loudest Prom in Pflugerville at HANOVER’S 🖤🕺
Saturday, May 9, 2026
📍 Hanover’s – Pflugerville, TX
Throw on your prom attire (or whatever makes you look like you peaked in 2007) and get ready for a night of pop punk, alt rock, grunge, and straight-up nostalgia 🤘
Featuring: 🎸 Taking Back Tacos – Pop Punk / Emo Cover Band 🔥 Foo Shot – Foo Fighters Tribute 🖤 Wicked Vixxen – Grunge Covers
Expect a full night of singalongs, throwback anthems, and all the awkward prom energy you wish you had the first time around.
🎉 PROM NIGHT EXTRAS:
👑 Prom King & Queen Selection
📸 Prom Photos Available
💵 $50 Hanover’s Gift Card for Best Dressed
So grab your date, your friends, or your emotionally damaged inner teenager and come rage at Rock Prom. Prom attire encouraged.
Let’s make bad decisions in formal wear.
$10 Advance - $15 @ Door
Taking Back Tacos and Konami Code are bringing you back to the 2000's.
2 Bands - 3+ hours of your favorite songs you listened to on your burned CD's.
Taking Back Tacos & Konami Code
Its a Friday night. Come out and Sing Loud. 21+
$15 @ Door / $10 (+fees) advance
You're Not Too Damn Old Yet. We are Taking Back Thursday on Red River at Valhalla 4/2/26.
Taking Back Tacos - Austin's Newest and Coolest Pop Punk Emo Cover Band & 2000 Whatever - Bringing Back All the Best 2000's Hits
2 bands. 3 hours of your favorite hits. It's only $10 at the door. No presale tickets. Just show up and bring a $10 bill and lets fucking party on Thursday likes it s 2000fucking5. 21+
2000's Throwback Party with Taking Back Tacos and Konami Code. Two bands playing 1.5 hour sets each. This is a night filled with all your favorite songs from the past. Be ready to come out and sing along with us.
🎙️ ROCK RADIO REWIND Turn the dial. Trust the chaos. The needle’s gonna wander, the volume’s gonna spike, and every twist brings back a rush you haven’t felt in years. This is ROCK RADIO REWIND — The needle’s gonna wander and the volume’s blast through the anthems, memories, and beautiful noise that shaped your rebellious youth. Featuring three bands dialing in the best of your rock-radio glory days: 🔥 Black Days — channeling the raw soul and fire of Chris Cornell ⚡ Foo Shot — the Foo Fighters anthems that defined your loudest years 🌮 Taking Back Tacos — “Bringing back the songs from your MySpace wall one power chord at a time.” No eras, no rules — just the songs you cranked with the windows down! 🎉 BONUS… it’s Marti’s birthday (bassist for Foo Shot) and we want YOU to help an old rocker celebrate another lap around the sun! 😄🎸 🎸 Three bands. One night. Full-volume memory lane. Location: Hanovers Draught Haus, Pflugerville Date: Saturday, 1/10/26 Doors at 8, Music starts at 9 $10 at the door
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We hope to see you at the Elbow Room for a night full of rockin’ for a cause. Helping kids get Christmas presents around the San Antonio community.
$10
It's Halloween...almost. Come on out for some pre-Halloween fun at the Rah! Rah! Room. We will have a pop punk/emo costume contest with $50 cash prize. More contests and prizes to be announced.
Price is $15 Come dressed in costume and get in for only $10.
Come & Take It Live, 2015 E Riverside Dr bldg 4, Austin, TX 78741
It's time for Taco Tuesday at Come & Take It Live with Taking Back Tacos playing all of your pop punk/emo favorites. We have local pop punk bands Frogmouth and Killer Tango opening the show. Come on out and be ready to sing!
Price $10 advance $15 @ Door
$10 advance - $15 @ Door
Taking Back Tacos in San Marcos to kick off the Texas State school year in pop punk fashion. We are bringing Stay for the Years and The Panix, both from San Antonio, with us. Bring you singing voices and your drinking livers. We are going to party.
Price - $10 at the door
Empire Garage Presents: Taking Back Tacos (Pop Punk Emo Cover Band) with Riot Radio! ( A tribute to Paramore) & GONE on September 4th, 2025 in Austin, TX. Doors: 7:00PM | Show: 8:00PM Tickets: $10
Your most favorite Pop Punk/Emo Cover Band is coming to San Antonio. We will be performing your favorite pop punk/Emo hits on August 21st at Fitzgerald’s. We are bringing some friends with us so be ready for an awesome night filled with your favorite songs and some new original pop punk/punk rock songs from our amazing openers. It’s gonna be a bad ass night. It’s only $10. Bring your singing voices and get your livers prepared for beers.
Price $10 @ door.
Come and Take It Live, 1920 East Riverside Drive, Austin, TX 78741
OOF Fighters (Foo Fighters Tribute), Taking Back Tacos (emo/pop-punk covers), and Gloria Gloria will hit the stage on May 27 at Come and Take It Live. Doors at 7pm. $10 advance tickets, $15 day of show. Carter Bros. Pizza will be on site with a special Taking Back Tacos Taco Pizza. It's gonna be delicious. Come on out and lets party!
$10 Advance $15 Day of Show
