The Battle Was Epic!
The 2026 Corporate Battle of the Bands presented by Cirrus Logic returned to ACL Live at the Moody Theater
for the 17th year on June 10th!
Six rockstar bands from Cirrus Logic, H-E-B, ABC Home & Commercial, Netspend, PNC Bank, and Ascension Seton unleashed their talents for a great cause - to keep music in Austin alive and well.
The evening raised over $241,000! Through partnerships with area providers, HAAM is able to leverage those dollars into nearly $1.7 million in direct healthcare services for the more than 3,300 area musicians it serves annually. Thank you, Austin! A special thanks to presenting sponsor Cirrus Logic with stage sponsors, H-E-B and C3 Presents, and to news crews from KEYE, KVUE and KXAN for covering this critical fundraising event!
Help us reach our $250,000 goal by donating today, so that we can continue to meet the needs of Central Texas musicians.
Thank you to all of our Band, Award, Suite and Event sponsors for making this epic evening possible and for helping to keep music in Austin alive and well. With competition tight and judging fierce, the following bands took home the 2026 gold record awards:
Best Band (sponsored by Maxwell Locke & Ritter): The Anteaters (ABC Home & Commercial)
Best Song (sponsored by Tecovas): “Helena” (My Chemical Romance) performed by Knuckle Sammich (H-E-B)
Best Stage Presence: The Haptics (Cirrus Logic)
Fan Favorite (sponsored by Austin Subaru): The Haptics (Cirrus Logic)
All bands received an appreciation award sponsored by FVF Law!
2026 Corporate Battle of the Bands Photos
Photos by Jake Rabin & David Brendan Hall
2026 Performing Band Sponsors
Full List of 2026 Event Partners
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Cirrus Logic
STAGE SPONSORS
H-E-B | C3 Presents
BAND SPONSORS
Cirrus Logic | H-E-B | PNC Bank | ABC Home & Commercial | Ascension Seton l Netspend
AWARD & EVENT SPONSORS
Airbnb - Event Sponsor | Tito’s Handmade Vodka - Event Sponsor l FVF Law - Appreciation Awards | Maxwell Locke & Ritter - Best Band Award
Tecovas - Best Song Award | Austin Subaru - Fan Favorite Award | KBI Recycling - Event Sponsor | Schlotzsky’s - VIP Party
SPECIAL THANKS
ACL Live| ATX Event Systems| LatticeWorks
THANK YOU TO OUR IN-KIND EVENT, AUCTION & PICK-A-PICK SPONSORS:
ACL Live at the Moody Theater | Alotten | Anna Kraft Fine Art Portrait | Antone’s Nightclub | ATX Backline | ATX Event Systems | Austin FC | Austin Film Festival | Brane Audio | Big Loud Texas | Birds Barbershop | Breakaway Records | Butler Pitch & Putt l C3 Presents | Canned Beets | Carpenter Hotel l Patrick & Judy Cantilo | Central Machine Works | Circuit of The Americas | Criquet Shirts l Dulce Vida Tequila l Flat Creek Estate l Gibson Gives | Graphic Guitar Guys | Gold Rush Vinyl | Hai Hospitality | Hattie B’s Hot Chicken l The Hemby Estate | imogene + willie | KUTX | La Condesa l La Lumiere New York l Live Nation | Luck Presents | Mañana Coffee l Milam and Greene Whiskey | Misc. Rentals | Moody Center | Mythic Guitar Company | New Waterloo | Nova Hospitality | PNC Bank | Resound Presents | Room Service Vintage l Schlotzsky's | SharpeVision | Shake Shack | Snarf’s Sandwiches l Soundwaves Art Foundation | Spokesman Coffee | StarVista Live | St. Elmo Brewing | Stephen F. Austin Hotel | Strait Music | Joshua Stringer | Sway Thai l Tacodeli | Tecovas l Tejas Tonic | Texas Craft Brewers Guild l Thunderhouse Media | Troublemaker Studios | Tupelo Goods l University of Texas Press | Waterloo Audiology | Waterloo Greenway | Waterloo Ice House l YETI | Zilker Belts
THANK YOU TO OUR 2026 JUDGES & EMCEES
EMCEES: Trevor Scott(CBS Austin) l Quita Culpepper (KVUE) | Nakia (Singer/Songwriter)
JUDGES: Trennis Jones(Austin FC) l Taylor Wallace (KUTX) l Nakia (Singer/Songwriter) l Kendall Beard (Singer/Songwriter)
