Levitation, the longtime Austin, Texas, music competition that focuses on psych-rock, electronica, and punk, has unveiled its 2025 lineup. Pavement, TV on the Radio, and Mastodon will headline, with Built to Spill, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Acid Bathtub, and the Black Angels topping the invoice. Levitation is implementing a brand new cross-hybrid format of the competition grounds, with this yr’s predominant stage shifting to Palmer Occasions Middle whereas nightly venue exhibits happen throughout Austin’s Downtown Purple River District. The competition runs September 25-28. Try the poster under.
Along with the aforementioned artists, the 2025 lineup additionally consists of the Armed, Blood Incantation, Marie Davidson, Destroyer, Blonde Redhead, Sudan Archives, Mastodon, Wednesday, PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, Suicide’s Martin Rev, Pile, the Brian Jonestown Bloodbath, Mannequin/Actriz, Boy Harsher, Swervedriver, the Raveonettes, Mdou Moctar, Seashore Fossils, Johnny Jewel, Jamila Woods, Facs, Being Lifeless, Goat Lady, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Dandy Warhols, and extra.
“We’ve been trying to find the fitting location to deliver a multi-stage expertise again to Levitation for years, and we discovered it proper downtown,” mentioned competition co-founder and director Rob Fitzpatrick. “The venue provides an enormous improve in manufacturing general with countless potentialities for the visible expertise, and nice facilities—air con, good loos, ample parking, an enormous shaded outside courtyard, together with the manufacturing infrastructure wanted for a world-class present. All of that in an exquisite park within the coronary heart of the town, and the proximity to downtown means we’re nonetheless in a position to 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.”
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