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 Constructed 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 12 months’s important stage transferring to Palmer Occasions Heart whereas nightly venue exhibits happen throughout Austin’s Downtown Pink 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 looking for the precise location to carry 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 presents an enormous improve in manufacturing general with infinite potentialities 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. All of that in a gorgeous park within the coronary heart of the town, and the proximity to downtown means we’re nonetheless capable of host exhibits in our Pink 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.”
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