Preview: Our Pick's For Austin's Levitation Festival

 

☆ BY JACOB DAPPER ☆

 
 

As the end of October approaches, and things get spookier by the day, we also get closer to the beginning of Levitation Fest, featuring a plethora of genre-bending acts. Held the last weekend of October across many of Austin’s locally owned venues, Levitation Fest boasts a lineup perfect for an audience with an open mind to all things experimental, chill, and even a bit rowdy.

While the festival boasts a specialty in psychedelia, a wide breadth of sounds underneath the rock umbrella can be found, including garage, punk, R&B, math rock, indie, noise, roots, experimental, synthwave, psych, funk, and more. Levitation has curated a lineup that covers a lot of ground; from Andy Shauf (indie-folk pop) to Portrayal of Guilt (hardcore punk) and Thundercat (funk-soul-jazz bassist) there is something for everybody. 

Like all good festivals, the age-old dilemma of the music festival goer is ever-present—when faced with a scheduling conflict of two bands playing at the same time, how do you decide which to see? Do they tour here often? Will one be overcrowded? Are they going to play more of their new stuff or the stuff you know all the words to? Which band puts on a better performance? They’re both awesome? Sounds like a good problem to have. And so it goes. 

Fortunately, Levitation Fest doesn’t present itself with too many conflicts, with three of the main hosting venues within a stone’s throw of one another and a mostly staggered schedule. Even still, there are opportunities to choose between a few good options. 

Here’s an incomplete list of acts we are excited about:

Thursday 10/28

Post Animal - Hotel Vegas (1502 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702) @ 9:00pm

Chicano Batman - Stubbs (801 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 9:00pm

Friday 10/29

Black Midi - Mohawk (912 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 11:00pm

La Luz -  Hotel Vegas (1502 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702) @ 11:00pp

Saturday 10/30

Thundercat - Stubbs (801 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 9pm

Kikagaku Moyo - Empire (606 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 11:30pm

Sunday 10/31

Japanese Breakfast - Stubbs (801 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 9pm

Sasami - Stubbs (801 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701) @ 8pm

Levitation graciously books a lot of local acts, so here are some of Austin’s own to check out: 

Thursday, 10/28:

Being Dead, Nolan Potter Nightmare Band, The Well, Octopus Project

Friday, 10/29:

Ringo Deathstarr, Blushing

Saturday, 10/30:

Sun June, Annabelle Chairlegs, Holy Wave, Chronophage, Pleasure Venom, Portrayal of Guilt

Sunday, 10/31:

Sweet Spirit, Pussy Gillette, Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad, Calliope Musicals, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Buffalo Hunt, Think No Think, Kalu & The Electric Joint, Urban Heat, Sailor Poon, Christian Bland and The Revelators (Black Angels’ guitarist)

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