LEVITATION returns with one other stacked four-day lineup and new competition grounds, Palmer Occasions Middle, along with nightly venue programming throughout Austin’s Downtown Purple River District. The expanded footprint brings bigger acts to the weekend, and the competition’s Night time Exhibits proceed to supply intimate membership experiences downtown, celebrating the unbiased music scene—from up-and-comers to nationwide headliners. For over a decade, LEVITATION has delivered thoughtfully curated lineups that span psych, dream pop, punk, indie, metallic, darkwave, digital and all genres in between. Passes for LEVITATION 2025 are actually on sale, and night time present tickets might be bought individually – all on the ticket hyperlink HERE.
Palmer Occasions Middle will function the guts and fundamental venue for LEVITATION 2025. Situated on the shores of City Lake overlooking the Austin skyline, the venue options an expansive 75,000 sq. foot surroundings for the indoor stage, offering an enormous canvas for the artists on stage and 360 diploma lighting and visuals, day or night time. The indoor expertise is accompanied by an outside stage set to a backdrop of lush bushes and the Austin skyline. The brand new venue gives facilities like an air-conditioned, indoor expertise for the principle stage, ample out of doors inexperienced area, loads of room to stretch out and dangle, and an immersive setting for the music and visible expertise that LEVITATION is understood to supply. The brand new location brings considerable area for interactive artwork and video installations, a DJ stage, classic clothes pop-ups, gear and report distributors, a meals truck courtroom, an expanded poster present, and way more to discover all through the weekend.
“We’ve been looking for the appropriate location to deliver a multi-stage expertise again to LEVITATION for years, and we discovered it proper downtown. The venue gives an enormous improve in manufacturing general with countless potentialities for the visible expertise, and nice facilities – air con, good bogs, ample parking, a large shaded out of doors courtyard, together with the manufacturing infrastructure wanted for a world-class present. All of that in a fantastic park within the coronary heart of the town,” explains LEVITATION co-founder and competition director Rob Fitzpatrick. “and the proximity to downtown means we’re nonetheless capable of host exhibits in our Purple River venues; these golf equipment are the guts 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 residence for the competition, and we are able to’t wait to expertise this lineup with everybody in September.”
“LEVITATION 2025 brings again a bigger multi-stage competition within the spirit of when it was held on the ranch – and simply steps from the place Enjoyable Enjoyable Enjoyable Fest known as residence – however this time we’re doing it at a venue that has all the pieces we’d like – and with a roof over our head,” provides Resound Presents founder Graham Williams. “We couldn’t be extra excited concerning the new venue and the way forward for LEVITATION on this new area.”
The central competition hub at Palmer Occasions Middle will host a few of LEVITATION’s largest acts with daytime and night performances. Later every night time, attendees can discover the town’s famed Purple River and downtown venues with night time exhibits operating Thursday via Sunday at Stubb’s, Mohawk, Elysium, Kingdom, twenty ninth St Ballroom, thirteenth Flooring and extra.
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Friday, September 26 begins off robust and heavy at Palmer Occasion Middle – stacking metallic titans MASTODON, the one Texas present from the reunited ACID BATH, progressive loss of life metallic phenoms BLOOD INCANTATION and Austin’s personal doom metallic masters THE SWORD, plus extra on the principle competition grounds.
Saturday brings a head-spinning invoice topped with NYC’s indie greats TV ON THE RADIO, the broken grooves of UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, notorious psych outfit THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, dream rockers BLONDE REDHEAD, together with WEDNESDAY, LA FEMME, MODEL/ACTRIZ and extra.
Sunday’s lineup combines a 90s indie dream lineup with a uncommon efficiency from PAVEMENT, indie stalwarts BUILT TO SPILL and DESTROYER with heavy dose of psychedelic rock from competition founders THE BLACK ANGELS, psych punks FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS and BEING DEAD.
The competition nighttime programming kicks off as early as Wednesday, September 24 and runs via the night time of Sunday, September 28, that includes acts like MDOU MOCTAR, BEACH FOSSILS, BOY HARSHER, SUDAN ARCHIVES, THE DANDY WARHOLS, NEAL FRANCIS, DRUG DEALER and lots of extra.
The total LEVITATION 2025 lineup at Palmer Occasions Middle, with all corresponding night time present programming, is detailed under.
PALMER EVENTS CENTER LINEUP
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
MASTODON • ACID BATH
THE SWORD • BLOOD INCANTATION
THE ARMED • SECRET CHIEFS 3 • CASTLE RAT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
TV ON THE RADIO
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
BLONDE REDHEAD • WEDNESDAY • LA FEMME
THE RAVEONETTES • SWERVEDRIVER • MODEL/ACTRIZ
GOAT GIRL • YIN YIN • HOOVERiii
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
PAVEMENT
THE BLACK ANGELS • BUILT TO SPILL
DESTROYER • FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS • BEING DEAD
UPCHUCK • DILES QUE NO ME MATEN • POPULATION II
+ MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
NIGHT SHOWS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 – KICKOFF NIGHT
MDOU MOCTAR + MORE @ RADIO/EAST
BEACH FOSSILS + LAUNDER + GIRLPUPPY @ MOHAWK
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
BOY HARSHER + MARTIN REV + KUMO 99 @ STUBBS
NEAL FRANCIS + MORE @ MOHAWK
WARMSUSCHER + MORE @ 13TH Flooring
TEEN SUICIDE + MORE @ BALLROOM
DESIRE + JOHNNY JEWEL @ ELYSIUM
STARJUNK 95 + DR. GABBA @ KINGDOM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
SUDAN ARCHIVES + JAMILA WOODS + SINKANE @ STUBBS
THE DANDY WARHOLS + KULA SHAKER @ MOHAWK
PIXEL GRIP + MORE @ ELYSIUM
ROSE CITY BAND + MORE @ BALLROOM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
PUP + JEFF ROSENSTOCK @ RADIO/EAST
DRUGDEALER + SKINSHAPE + SONS OF SEVILLA @ MOHAWK
PILE + FACS @ BALLROOM
LA FEMME (DJ) + MARIE DAVIDSON (LIVE) @ KINGDOM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
BAMBARA + OMNI @ 13TH FLOOR
For updates and extra data on this 12 months’s competition, sustain with LEVITATION on Instagram HERE and at levitation.fm.
About Levitation
Based in 2008 as Austin Psych Fest by members of The Black Angels and associates, the unbiased occasion sparked a motion, inspiring the creation of comparable occasions throughout the globe. Austin Psych Fest was renamed LEVITATION in honor of Austin’s psychedelic rock pioneers The thirteenth Flooring Elevators, who reunited and carried out at LEVITATION 2015 for the band’s fiftieth anniversary. The occasion has stayed true to its unique mission – to be a hub for the psych rock scene – whereas increasing into the worlds of metallic, digital music, punk, and all method of unbiased and underground music.
Via Austin’s famed music venues and reside music scene, co-producers Resound Presents, and a bunch of collaborators and associates from Austin and past, the occasion continues to be a pillar of the worldwide music scene. LEVITATION fosters a thriving group, pushes style boundaries, and continues to form the cultural panorama of Austin as a hub for cutting-edge and different sounds.
LEVITATION 2025 will deliver an epic 4-day weekend of music and artwork to its new central residence of Palmer Occasions Middle within the coronary heart of downtown Austin, with Night time Present programming protecting the spirit of the fest alive on Purple River. The 2025 lineup is an eclectic, genre-spanning showcase of psych rock, metallic, punk, electronica, indie rock and all issues in between – a celebration of unbiased music and artwork in a brand new venue format with extra in retailer.
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST returned in April 2023 celebrating its 15 12 months anniversary with a 3 day throwback to the unique multi-stage, single venue format. APF is right here to remain, with the following version scheduled for Could 8-10, 2026. Austin Psych Fest honors the town’s Nineteen Sixties psychedelic rock heritage and brings it into the right here and now – bringing tripped-out sounds to an appropriately laid-back South Austin setting.
LEVITATION FRANCE celebrated its eleventh 12 months in 2024, and returns June 27 & 28 with a brand new lake-side venue in Angers, FR. The competition brings LEVITATION’s signature sights and sounds to this idyllic riverside metropolis within the Loire Valley, in partnership with Radical Manufacturing.
THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY (RVRB), the report label and inventive collective that began the unique occasion, has launched information by key bands within the psych and storage rock scene, and kicked off its Stay at Levitation archive collection in 2021 with reside releases from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kikagaku Moyo, The Black Angels, Primal Scream and extra. Levitation Periods, the imprint’s reside album + movie collection, captures bands like Osees, Windhand, Ty Segall, SLIFT, Loss of life Valley Women and extra, performing in distinctive areas and pressed to restricted version vinyl. RVRB’s on-line store gives an ever-expanding collection of restricted version vinyl from different labels, guitar pedals, turntables, artwork prints, certainly one of a form tie-dyes, and extra.
RESOUND PRESENTS is a small workforce of specialists working to make reside music superior throughout the levels of Central Texas, one membership at a time. With a main deal with bringing artists to music venues and different distinctive areas in Austin and San Antonio, Resound gives reserving for reside music, comedy, podcasts and extra, in addition to artistic advertising and design companies for nationwide and native touring musicians, artists and types. For extra data, please go to resoundpresents.com, and observe the model on social media at @resoundpresents.
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