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5 Highlights From John Summit’s Soaring Set at Billboard’s The Stage at SXSW

With support from Jordan Miller and Nala, the dance music producer closed out Billboard's trio of shows at SXSW 2025.

The dance music star and current Billboard cover subjec t played to one of the biggest crowds ever assembled at downtown Austin’s Moody Amphitheater, with roughly 5,000 revelers packing the venue from the grassy area in the back to the pit in front of the stage. The size of the show also made it a bit more akin to Summit’s Experts Only party series, which has recently happened in place like Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Vail, Colo., and is focused on underground music in smaller, more club-like spaces. He also leaned into remixes, playing the Odd Mob edit of his own “palm of my hands,” his, Subtronic and Tape B’s wobbly edit of Sage the Gemini’s “Gas Pedal” and his own recently released remix of Anyma and Ellie Goulding’s “Hypnotized.” Summit closed the show by asking if the audience wanted to hear some dubstep, with the crowd welcoming to the genre with a big roar and Summit then playing some super grimey low end, seeming to shock even himself with the intensity, saying simply “holy s—” into the mic after the hard-hitting segment.

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