The annual Austin competition Levitation has unveiled its preliminary 2025 lineup, and it’s a really cool one headlined by Mastodon, Pavement, Acid Bathtub, and TV on the Radio.
The 18th version of the competition is ready for the weekend of September Twenty fifth-Twenty eighth, this time in a brand new location: the Palmer Occasions Middle — a 75,000 sq. foot, two-stage complicated positioned on the shores of City Lake overlooking the Austin skyline. And in basic Levitation vogue, there may even be late-night exhibits going down throughout venues in Downtown Austin.
Three-day passes and single-day tickets can be found by way of Levitation’s web site, with late-show tickets accessible individually.
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Metallic followers will at the very least need a ticket to Friday’s motion, as its headlined by Mastodon and Acid Bathtub and options an all-heavy invoice that includes reunited ATX stoner-metal heroes The Sword, Denver dying steel stars Blood Incantation, Detroit ensemble The Armed, and extra.
Saturday is extra indie-leaning with TV on the Radio and Unknown Mortal Orchestra main a invoice of Brian Jonestown Bloodbath, Blonde Redhead, Wednesday, La Femme, The Raveonettes, and Swervedriver, amongst others.
Pavement headline Sunday’s festivities together with fellow indie legends Constructed to Spill and Destroyer. The remainder of the bands may have been on one of many outdated pre-Levitation, Austin Psych Fest payments: The Black Angels, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, A Place to Bury Strangers, and so forth.
In the meantime, the night time present lineup can be fairly stacked, with performances by Boy Harsher, Sudan Archives, Pup and Jeff Rosenstock, The Dandy Warhols, Suicide’s Martin Rev, Drugdealer, and lots of extra throughout the weekend. As well as, there’s Wednesday (September twenty fourth) kickoff exhibits that includes Seashore Fossils, Mdou Moctar, and others.
As for the brand new venue, competition co-founder and director Rob Fitzpatrick stated that the Palmer Occasions Middle lastly solves the dilemma of bringing a multi-stage expertise again to Levitation.
“The venue affords an enormous improve in manufacturing total with infinite prospects for the visible expertise, and nice facilities — air con, good bogs, ample parking, a large shaded outside courtyard, together with the manufacturing infrastructure wanted for a world-class present,” he stated in a press launch. “All of that in a wonderful park within the coronary heart of the town, and the proximity to downtown means we’re nonetheless capable of host exhibits in our Purple River venues; these golf equipment are the center and soul of our music scene in Austin and it wouldn’t be Levitation with out them. We’re very excited to create one thing exceptional and constructed to final on this new dwelling for the competition, and we are able to’t wait to expertise this lineup with everybody in September.”
Take a look at the total lineup poster under.
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