Levitation just dropped its 2025 lineup, and it’s looking wild.
Instead of sticking to the old setup, this year’s festival will put the main stage at the Palmer Events Center, while all the late-night gigs will take over spots in the Red River District downtown. Pavement, TV on the Radio, and Mastodon are taking the big slots, but that’s only the start—there’s also Built to Spill, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Acid Bath, and The Black Angels right at the top. The party is set for September 25 to 28, so mark your calendars.
The list of artists goes on and on: The Armed, Blood Incantation, Marie Davidson, Destroyer, Blonde Redhead, Sudan Archives, Wednesday, PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, Martin Rev from Suicide, Pile, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Model/Actriz, Boy Harsher, Swervedriver, The Raveonettes, Mdou Moctar, Beach Fossils, Johnny Jewel, Jamila Woods, Facs, Being Dead, Goat Girl, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Dandy Warhols, and way more. It’s almost like someone took a big music blender and hit the “awesome” button.
Fans always hope for surprise guests, and maybe this year we’ll get one.
Rob Fitzpatrick, who helped start the festival, said, “We’ve been searching for the right location to bring a multi-stage experience back to Levitation for years, and we found it right downtown. The venue offers a huge upgrade in production overall with endless possibilities for the visual experience, and great amenities—air conditioning, nice bathrooms, ample parking, a giant shaded outdoor courtyard, along with the production infrastructure needed for a world-class show. All of that in a beautiful park in the heart of the city, and the proximity to downtown means we’re still able to host shows in our Red River venues; these clubs are the heart and soul of our music scene in Austin and it wouldn’t be Levitation without them.”
Sometimes we wonder if the bathrooms really are that nice, but air conditioning sounds great, especially in Texas.
If you want to see the poster, just scroll down and check it out.
Oh, and there’s a write-up about Pavement and Built to Spill in “The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s.”
