The Octopus Project

Plus: Revocation/Exhumed, Khruangbin, Control Top, SOB x RBE, Thrice, Ministry, Nothing/Swirlies, Reigning Sound, Saint Etienne, and more tour announcements.

Levitation fest returns to Austin after two years off, happening April 26 - 29 at venues all over the downtown area. The festival has been releasing official mixtapes featuring music from this year's artists. We're premiering the second of those, which was put together by Al Lover, and features Oh Sees, Electric Wizard, Ministry, The Make-Up, Bedouine, Panda Bear, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Parquet Courts, Ariel Pink, Slowdive, Suuns, OM, and lots more.

They worked on the album with Flaming Lips collaborator Dave Fridmann and Shearwater collaborator Danny Reisch.

SXSW already announced two rounds of 2016 artists, and today a third round was announced, including L7, Bloc Party, The Cult, Loretta Lynn, Waxahatchee, Frankie Cosmos, D∆WN, Polica, Dilly Dally, Eleanor Friedberger, Protomartyr, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Fat White Family, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, All Dogs, Judy Collins & Ari Hest, The Dandy Warhols, Des Ark, Mick Jenkins, Lady Leshurr, Mitski, Supersuckers, Teen Suicide, together PANGEA, Turnover, Younghusband an...

The Cribs at MHOW in 2012 (more by Guy Eppel) A ton of artists were already announced for SXSW 2015 (March 17-22), and now the second artist announcement has come with several more including Twin Shadow, The Cribs, Swervedriver, Gang of Four, KEN mode, Weyes Blood, Wild Throne, Elvis Depressedly, SURVIVE, Juan Wauters, San Fermin, Lydia Ainsworth, The Blind Shake, Ex-Cult, Ikonika, King Tuff, Pujol, The Velvet Teen, The Zombies, Zookeeper, Yumi Zouma and tons m...

Austin Psych Fest 2013 (more by Tim Griffin) Austin Psych Fest returns for its 6th year from May 2-4 at the Carson Creek Ranch, and since we last spoke, the festival's lineup has been expanded to now include The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Panda Bear, The War On Drugs, Graveyard, Mikal Cronin, Bombino, Peaking Lights, Pink Mountaintops, The Fresh and Onlys, Sleepy Sun, The Octopus Project, Bardo Pond, Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, Morgan Delt, Cosmonauts, Pure X, Guardian Alien, Mark McGuire, Greg Ashley and more...

Raspberry Bulbs at Saint Vitus, August 2013 (more by Caroline Harrison) Crusty metal/punk outfit Raspberry Bulbs put out their second album, the gruff ripper Deformed Worship, over the summer...

Twin Shadow @ Governors Ball 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows. Here are some highlights...

via @gmsharpteeth Tickets for The Weeknd shows at Terminal 5 at Paradise Theater go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Tame Impala shows at Webster Hall and MHOW go on sale today at noon...

After teasing folks with a few names here and there -- like Run DMC most recently -- Austin's annual Fun Fun Fun Fest (Nov 2 - 4) has revealed it's full line-up, including Public Image Ltd, De La Soul, Superchunk, Santigold, Refused, X peforming Los Angeles, and lots, lots more...