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.
Both RayRay and myself were out on the road with our families last week, so we weren’t able to make it out to catch Death from Above 1979 when they hit up Empire Control Room last Friday with Archer Oh. Luckily our friend and photographer Casey Chumbley was able to shoot some photos on our behalf. You can see his shots of both bands below, and if you love his work (we do!) then check out more stuff from Casey 
We are still standing and still ready to rock. Most of us had a long one yesterday and into the evening, so yeah we saw a ton of bands on Thursday. We were mostly split up, all over town, and maybe hit a high note for the amount of unique bands our team saw during one day. It was a big one and we of course have some thoughts about what went down. After the jump, you can find our top bands of the day along with thoughts and of course, fancy photos.
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 
