LEVITATION is again, that includes a dynamic four-day lineup at its new venue, the Palmer Occasions Middle, accompanied by thrilling nightly programming throughout Austin’s vibrant Downtown Purple River District. This expanded venue accommodates bigger acts and intimacy with nightly membership exhibits, highlighting the impartial music scene and showcasing skills starting from rising artists to main headliners. During the last decade, LEVITATION has been recognized for its meticulously curated lineups that cowl a wide selection of genres, together with psych, dream pop, punk, indie, steel, darkwave, digital, and the whole lot in between. Passes for LEVITATION 2025 are actually out there, and you should buy evening present tickets individually – get yours by the ticket hyperlink HERE.
The Palmer Occasions Middle would be the central hub for LEVITATION 2025. Nestled by City Lake and boasting beautiful views of the Austin skyline, this venue gives an expansive 75,000 square-foot indoor stage. The area permits for spectacular artistry with 360-degree lighting and visuals, offering a charming environment for performances, day or evening. As well as, the outside stage is surrounded by lush greenery and the long-lasting Austin skyline. Attendees can get pleasure from an air-conditioned indoor setting, ample outside area for leisure, and an immersive ambiance that LEVITATION is widely known for. This location additionally gives loads of room for interactive artwork and video installations, a DJ stage, classic clothes distributors, gear and report outlets, a meals truck courtroom, an expanded poster present, and far more to discover all through the weekend.
“For years, we’ve been trying to find the proper venue to reintroduce a multi-stage expertise for LEVITATION, and we’ve lastly discovered it downtown. The venue represents a major improve in total manufacturing, with limitless alternatives for visible experiences, in addition to unbelievable facilities comparable to air-con, high quality loos, ample parking, and a big shaded courtyard—all set in a gorgeous park located proper within the coronary heart of town,” explains Rob Fitzpatrick, co-founder and pageant director of LEVITATION. “The proximity to downtown permits us to proceed internet hosting exhibits at our beloved Purple River venues, that are the beating coronary heart of Austin’s music scene. We’re thrilled to create one thing actually outstanding and enduring on this new house for the pageant, and we will’t wait to expertise this lineup with everybody in September.”
Graham Williams, founding father of Resound Presents, provides, “LEVITATION 2025 ushers in a bigger multi-stage pageant paying homage to our earlier occasions on the ranch—which is simply steps away from the place Enjoyable Enjoyable Enjoyable Fest as soon as occurred. This time, nonetheless, now we have a venue outfitted with the whole lot we want—together with a roof over our heads.” His pleasure for the brand new venue and the way forward for LEVITATION is palpable.
The pageant’s fundamental web site on the Palmer Occasions Middle will host important daytime and night acts, whereas town’s iconic Purple River and downtown venues will preserve the vitality alive with evening exhibits working from Thursday to Sunday, that includes performances at Stubb’s, Mohawk, Elysium, Kingdom, twenty ninth St Ballroom, thirteenth Ground, and extra.
Try Scenes from LEVITATION 2024:
LEVITATION kicks off on Friday, September 26 with an electrifying lineup that includes steel giants MASTODON, the one Texas present from the reunited ACID BATH, progressive loss of life steel sensations BLOOD INCANTATION, and Austin’s personal doom steel legends THE SWORD, together with many others on the fundamental pageant grounds.
Saturday’s lineup is a heady combine, headlined by NYC’s indie icons TV ON THE RADIO, the distinctive beats of UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, and the notorious psych ensemble THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE. Additionally featured are dream rock artists BLONDE REDHEAD, together with WEDNESDAY, LA FEMME, MODEL/ACTRIZ, and extra.
On Sunday, a nostalgic 90s indie lineup showcases a uncommon look by PAVEMENT, accompanied by indie stalwarts BUILT TO SPILL and DESTROYER. The heaviness is rounded out with psychedelic sounds from pageant founders THE BLACK ANGELS, psych punks FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, and BEING DEAD.
The nighttime programming kicks off as early as Wednesday, September 24, working by Sunday, September 28. Acts comparable to MDOU MOCTAR, BEACH FOSSILS, BOY HARSHER, SUDAN ARCHIVES, THE DANDY WARHOLS, NEAL FRANCIS, DRUG DEALER, and plenty of extra will take the stage.
Under is the whole lineup for LEVITATION 2025 at Palmer Occasions Middle, together with evening present programming particulars:
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 Ground
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 extra updates and details about this 12 months’s pageant, comply with LEVITATION on Instagram and take a look at levitation.fm.
About Levitation
Based in 2008 as Austin Psych Fest by members of The Black Angels and their mates, this impartial occasion sparked a worldwide motion, inspiring related festivals worldwide. Austin Psych Fest was later renamed LEVITATION in honor of town’s psychedelic rock pioneers, The thirteenth Ground Elevators, who reunited to carry out at LEVITATION 2015 for the band’s fiftieth anniversary. The pageant has maintained its unique mission as a central hub for the psych rock scene whereas branching out into steel, digital music, punk, and varied different impartial genres.
Working alongside Austin’s famend stay music venues and co-producers Resound Presents, together with quite a few collaborators and mates from Austin and past, LEVITATION has established itself as an important a part of the worldwide music scene. It fosters a thriving neighborhood, pushes style boundaries, and continues to form Austin’s cultural panorama as a hub for revolutionary and different sounds.
LEVITATION 2025 guarantees an exhilarating four-day weekend of music and artwork at its new house, Palmer Occasions Middle, with Evening Present programming preserving the spirit of the pageant within the Purple River space. The 2025 lineup represents an eclectic mixture of psych rock, steel, punk, electronica, indie rock, and the whole lot in between—a celebration of impartial music and artwork in an thrilling new venue format with loads but to unveil.
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in April 2023, revisiting its unique multi-stage, single-venue format for a nostalgic 3-day expertise. This pageant is right here to remain, with its subsequent installment set for Might 8-10, 2026. Austin Psych Fest honors town’s Sixties psychedelic rock legacy, seamlessly mixing it with the native vibe for a particular occasion.
LEVITATION FRANCE marked its eleventh 12 months in 2024 and is ready to return on June 27 & 28, introducing a brand new lake-side venue in Angers, FR. This pageant continues to convey LEVITATION’s distinctive aesthetic to the picturesque riverside setting within the Loire Valley, in collaboration with Radical Manufacturing.
THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY (RVRB), the report label and artistic collective behind the unique occasion, has launched works by important bands within the psych and storage rock scene. They launched their Reside at Levitation sequence in 2021, that includes stay recordings from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kikagaku Moyo, The Black Angels, Primal Scream, and others. Moreover, their Levitation Classes sequence captures performances by Osees, Windhand, Ty Segall, SLIFT, Demise Valley Women, and extra, all recorded in distinctive areas and out there on restricted version vinyl. RVRB’s on-line retailer gives a rising choice of unique vinyl, guitar pedals, turntables, artwork prints, one-of-a-kind tie-dyes, and different distinctive gadgets.
RESOUND PRESENTS contains a devoted group targeted on enhancing stay music throughout Central Texas, one venue at a time. They specialise in reserving artists for music performances, comedy exhibits, and podcasts, whereas additionally providing artistic advertising and design providers to nationwide and native touring musicians, artists, and types. For extra info, go to resoundpresents.com, and comply with them on social media at @resoundpresents.
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