Levitation Halloween Freakend Bonus Coverage (with Photos)
In recent years, the annual Levitation Festival has occupied Halloween weekend, doubling as both a music festival and a holiday celebration. With the event shifting to an earlier date and new location this year, organizers seized the chance to curate a two-day lineup billed as the Halloween Freakend. The lineuppresumably assembled with a spooky, ghoulish fright-fest in mindfeatured a collection of artists that felt fitting in either name or style for the holiday weekend: Machine Girl, Clown Core, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and The Black Lips for reasons that seem obvious.
It started off a little slow and strange, but those keeping their eye on the prize knew we’d be in for a crazy end to the week, as there were releases dropping left and right. We skipped the album cycle to mostly focus on fresh singles, though we gave nods to records that came our way by the likes of Frog, Horsegirl, JJ Sweetheart and a few more. They’ve all got some great individual tracks in this great playlist, but we’re starting you off with Lowmoon‘s new jam, which is the perfect nostalgic bit of dream pop, which then moves right into Club 8‘s most recent banger. Some longer tunes rom Echo Delay, Cross Record and Consumables are within, but we tried to balance that out with some little joys. Also, don’t forget to check out Michael Maly’s review of the recent MJ Lenderman set at Emos!
We’re anti-Fascist, we’re anti-violence, we’re anti-racist and we’re pro-creative. -Joe Strummer (The Clash)
This past Sunday night, 5 members of the band