LEVITATION returns with one other stacked four-day lineup and new pageant grounds, Palmer Occasions Middle, along with nightly venue programming throughout Austin’s Downtown Pink River District. The expanded footprint brings bigger acts to the weekend, and the pageant’s Evening Reveals proceed to supply intimate membership experiences downtown, celebrating the impartial 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 evening present tickets may be bought individually – all on the ticket hyperlink HERE.
Palmer Occasions Middle will function the center and major venue for LEVITATION 2025. Positioned on the shores of City Lake overlooking the Austin skyline, the venue options an expansive 75,000 sq. foot setting for the indoor stage, offering an enormous canvas for the artists on stage and 360 diploma lighting and visuals, day or evening. 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 primary 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 thought to supply. The brand new location brings ample 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 rather more to discover all through the weekend.
“We’ve been looking for the proper 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 total with countless potentialities for the visible expertise, and nice facilities – air con, good loos, ample parking, an enormous shaded out of doors courtyard, together with the manufacturing infrastructure wanted for a world-class present. All of that in a phenomenal park within the coronary heart of the town,” explains LEVITATION co-founder and pageant director Rob Fitzpatrick. “and the proximity to downtown means we’re nonetheless capable of host reveals in our Pink 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 outstanding and constructed to final on this new residence for the pageant, and we are able to’t wait to expertise this lineup with everybody in September.”
“LEVITATION 2025 brings again a bigger multi-stage pageant 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 every part we want – and with a roof over our head,” provides Resound Presents founder Graham Williams. “We couldn’t be extra excited in regards to the new venue and the way forward for LEVITATION on this new area.”
The central pageant hub at Palmer Occasions Middle will host a few of LEVITATION’s largest acts with daytime and night performances. Later every evening, attendees can discover the town’s famed Pink River and downtown venues with evening reveals working Thursday by way of 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 dying metallic phenoms BLOOD INCANTATION and Austin’s personal doom metallic masters THE SWORD, plus extra on the primary pageant 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 pageant founders THE BLACK ANGELS, psych punks FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS and BEING DEAD.
The pageant nighttime programming kicks off as early as Wednesday, September 24 and runs by way of the evening of Sunday, September 28, that includes acts like MDOU MOCTAR, BEACH FOSSILS, BOY HARSHER, SUDAN ARCHIVES, THE DANDY WARHOLS, NEAL FRANCIS, DRUG DEALER and plenty of extra.
The complete LEVITATION 2025 lineup at Palmer Occasions Middle, with all corresponding evening 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 yr’s pageant, 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 mates, the impartial 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 impartial and underground music.
By way of Austin’s famed music venues and stay music scene, co-producers Resound Presents, and a number of collaborators and mates from Austin and past, the occasion continues to be a pillar of the worldwide music scene. LEVITATION fosters a thriving neighborhood, pushes style boundaries, and continues to form the cultural panorama of Austin as a hub for cutting-edge and various 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 Evening Present programming holding the spirit of the fest alive on Pink 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 impartial music and artwork in a brand new venue format with extra in retailer.
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST returned in April 2023 celebrating its 15 yr anniversary with a 3 day throwback to the unique multi-stage, single venue format. APF is right here to remain, with the subsequent version scheduled for Might 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 yr in 2024, and returns June 27 & 28 with a brand new lake-side venue in Angers, FR. The pageant 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 artistic 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 sequence in 2021 with stay releases from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kikagaku Moyo, The Black Angels, Primal Scream and extra. Levitation Classes, the imprint’s stay album + movie sequence, captures bands like Osees, Windhand, Ty Segall, SLIFT, Loss of life Valley Ladies and extra, performing in distinctive places 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, considered one of a sort tie-dyes, and extra.
RESOUND PRESENTS is a small crew of consultants working to make stay music superior throughout the phases of Central Texas, one membership at a time. With a main deal with bringing artists to music venues and different distinctive places in Austin and San Antonio, Resound gives reserving for stay music, comedy, podcasts and extra, in addition to artistic advertising and marketing 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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