Electronic Press Kit — 2026

Musician · Community Builder · Filmmaker
Australian-born, Austin-based. New music out now. Packing rooms. Building community. Documenting culture. Benjamin Webster is one of Austin's most compelling new voices.
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The Artist
one artist. many frequencies.
Benjamin Webster arrived in Austin with a guitar, a camera, and a decade of stories worth telling. His music — visceral, hook-driven Australian rock colliding with the soul of this city — has been landing hard. New material is already drawing real crowds: in March 2026, he packed out a SXSW show that had people talking long after the room cleared.
But the enlivened performance is only one dimension. Benjamin is also the founder of the Songwriting Sanctuary — a monthly creative gathering that has become one of Austin's most cherished underground music communities, bringing together writers, performers, and listeners in a space built on honesty and craft.
Alongside the music, he is a documentary filmmaker — his feature Healing the Interior documents Indigenous communities in British Columbia using ceremony and rhythm to process generational trauma. His short film Love Back to Country is an official selection of the 2026 Austin International Film Festival.
He also hosts Seekers & Keepers — a podcast exploring ancestral wisdom, creative expression, and the quiet truths that live beneath the noise.
Short Bio — Press Ready
Benjamin Webster is an Australian musician, community builder, and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. His music — visceral, hook-driven rock rooted in the grit of Australian slacker rock — is drawing serious attention, including a packed SXSW show in March 2026. He is the founder of the Songwriting Sanctuary, one of Austin's most beloved underground music communities. As a documentary filmmaker, his work follows cultures healing through ceremony and song. He hosts the podcast Seekers & Keepers. Above all, he is an artist who has lived every word he sings.
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Benjamin Webster grew up in Brisbane, Australia — a city that handed him rock 'n' roll before it handed him anything else. He came of age on the grit and swagger of Australian slacker rock: music with personality, tenacity, and a refusal to apologise for taking up space. That sound never left him.
For years he carried a guitar across the world — writing folk songs by campfires in Ireland, recording in makeshift studios in South East Asia, performing for whoever would listen. But the music kept demanding more. It demanded honesty. It demanded that he actually live the things he was singing about.
So he went looking. From the outback of Australia to the Amazon rainforest, from the sacred sites of Ireland to the Mayan regions of Mexico — he sought out elders, knowledge keepers, and communities who had never lost the thread back to what matters. What he found changed the music. It made it heavier, more grounded, more alive.
He arrived in Austin, Texas in 2024 — and found his people. The city's spirit of creative generosity, live music obsession, and unapologetic bigness felt like home. He has since packed out shows, built community through the Songwriting Sanctuary, and released music that is finding audiences far beyond the city limits.
Alongside the music, he directs documentary films. His feature Healing the Interior is in post-production; his short Love Back to Country is an official selection of the 2026 Austin International Film Festival. He also hosts the podcast Seekers & Keepers — conversations in the grey area between ancestral wisdom and the modern world.
Benjamin Webster is not building a brand. He is building a body of work — and it is only getting started.
The Music
australian grit. austin soul.
From the stripped-back acoustic bones of the Nothing At All EP to the visceral rock pulse of the newest single One From Another — just a taste of the hook-laden, fat-rhythm slacker rock that is taking Austin by storm.
New music is out now and tapping toes around the world. The live show is adaptable for any venue and Benjamin is earning a reputation as a charismatic frontman and solo artist alike.
Available for solo acoustic sets and full band performances. Festivals, venues, private events.
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the music. live.
Official Music Video
One From Another
Live Performance
Live — SXSW 2026
Community
the songwriting sanctuary.
The Songwriting Sanctuary is built on a simple premise: we do better in community. Every month, Benjamin gathers Austin's most committed songwriters and musicians into an intimate room where original work-in-progress is shared, celebrated, and interrogated with genuine craft.
When artists feel supported rather than judged, something unlocks. The Sanctuary is a space for writers to become real geeks about the craft — to pull apart a bridge, obsess over a lyric, and leave a better songwriter than they arrived. The work gets braver. The music gets better.
The social fabric of this community has grown so strong that the Songwriting Sanctuary is now supporting venue lineups across Austin — building audiences for its members and becoming a genuine force in the city's live music culture.
Documentary Film
documenting the return.
Benjamin's filmmaking follows the same thread as his music: communities and individuals finding their way back to what is real. His feature Healing the Interior, currently in post-production, documents a gathering in British Columbia where Indigenous drumming, rock 'n' roll music, and symphonic performance met to bring the community together in the wake of the Kamloops Residential School discovery.
His short film Love Back to Country is an official selection of the 2026 Austin International Film Festival.
Returning to the Tree of Life, filmed in the Yucatán, is available to watch now.
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seekers & keepers.
Conversations in the grey area. Seekers & Keepers explores the intersection of ancestral wisdom, creative expression, and the future of our collective consciousness. Calm, introspective, and deeply honest — a space for the quiet truths.
Available on Spotify now. Season 1 — The First Return — dropping in 2026.
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For performance bookings, festival enquiries, and media requests — reach out directly. We respond within 48 hours.
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