13th Floor – The Cosmic Clash

Live music preview: 13th Floor hosting art and music benefit for SIMS Foundation Saturday with Satalights, Semihelix and The Stayres

August 7, 2024 Greg Ackerman 631 Views 13th Floor, art, BENefit, Conrad Keely, DJ Dead Flowers, indie rock, live music, preview, Satalights, Semihelix, shoegasze, SIMS Foundation, The Stayres

This Saturday, 13th Floor on Red River is hosting a SIMS Foundation benefit featuring art and live music by Austin musicians at the venue. Live music by Satalights, Semihelix, The Stayres with tunes by DJ Dead Flowers will begin at 8 p.m. In addition, four musicians; Conrad Keely (And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead), Anna Troxell, Ruben Mendez and Wes Coleman will be presenting their visual art for sale, all to benefit The SIMS Foundation, a music mental health organization that provides mental health and recovery services to Austin area music industry members and their dependent families.

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Live music preview: LEVITATION 2024 music festival lineup and schedule is out

July 3, 2024 Case Cockrell 833 Views 13th Floor, A Place to Bury Strangers, Boogarins, Death Valley Girls, Hotel Vegas, Kingdom, Levitation, live music, Mdou Moctar, Meatbodies, mohawk, music festival, Osees, Phantogram, preview, psych-rock, Slift, Stubb's, The Black Angels, The Jesus Lizard, The Sword, Wine Lips

Austin-based psychedelia collective Levitation has announced the 2024 edition lineup and schedule of their multi-venue festival to take place in downtown Austin over Halloween weekend. The festival will retain its four-day format, featuring venues in the Red River Cultural District and other parts of Austin. The event runs from October 31 – November 3. Each day of programming will contain multiple shows at various locations throughout its duration, including; Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre, Mohawk, Empire Garage & Control Room, Elysium, The 13th Floor, and the new addition of downtown EDM favorite, Kingdom.

Brian Hillsman Live Music Review

Live music review: Wine Lips and Forty Feet Tall rocked 13th Floor

May 21, 2024 Brian Hillsman 1069 Views 13th Floor, 40 Feet Tall, Austin Music, garage rock, live music, Portland, punk rock, Red River Cultural District, Review, rock n roll, Wine Lips

On Monday, May 6, Red River Cultural District venue, The 13th Floor was flooded with patrons stoked to check out Wine Lips on the heels of their latest full-length release, Super Mega Ultra. One month to the day after the LP release, the Canadian quartet put on a raucous, mosh-inducing performance with enough pull to prompt friends Forty Feet Tall to fly in from Portland for the pairing. The two bands rocked 13th Floor with stand-out performances.

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Album Review: Wine Lips new album Super Mega Ultra emphasizes their growth and trajectory

May 4, 2024 Brian Hillsman 1248 Views 13th Floor, album, garage rock, new music, punk rock, Review, Stomp Records, Super Mega Ultra, Wine Lips

On April 5, Wine Lips released their latest LP, Super Mega Ultra, the much-anticipated follow-up to their breakout album, Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party. The Toronto-based act thrilled at Austin Psych Fest last year. Then dropped this punk rock banger recorded and mixed by Simon Larochette at the Sugar Shack in London, Ontario.

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Video premiere: Exotic Frutica released latest video 90K House in Sweden today

March 19, 2024 Case Cockrell 1007 Views 13th Floor, Blank Hellscape, Body Tape, Coral Snake, Exotic Fruitica, new music, noise punk, video premiere

Austin noise punk act Exotic Fruitica has released their latest video to accompany the newly released single “90k House In Sweden.” The track proceeds “NYC Feeling,” showing the Austin act pushing the envelope on their punishing instrumentation, pervasive lyricism, and deafening live performances.

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SXSW preview: Seven Day Parties to put on your must see list

March 7, 2024 Case Cockrell 1838 Views 13th Floor, Andrew Cashen, Cavalier, day parties, Hotel Vegas, live music, Parish, Pink Fuzz, Play to the Plants, preview, RSVP, South by Southwest, Stubb's, Sx, SXSW, The Black Angels, The Cosmic Clash, The Lost Well

What’s South By Southwest without daytime shenanigans? For every year’s SXSW installment, different activations pop up all over the city

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Live music preview: Free Week presented by RRCD takes place first weekend of January

December 14, 2023 Case Cockrell 1749 Views 13th Floor, Billy Glitter, Cheer Up Charlie's, Chess Club, Deep Cross, Duel, Eagle Claw, Free Week, Free Week 2024, Large Brush Collection, Luxury Television, mohawk, Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band, Red River Cultural District, RRCD, Semihelix, Stubb's, TV's Daniel

For the first weekend of each year (January 5=6) , Austin non-profit, Red River Cultural District (RRCD) celebrates the new year by inviting music fans to a free, no-strings-attached series of shows from local bands and touring acts as a part of Austin’s annual Free Week. With each consecutive year of door cover-free performances, a wide array of local talent takes the reins to deliver a weekend full of fun and musical discovery. With Austin mainstays like Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, Billy Glitter, and Redbud being invited for the parties, Free Week is Austin’s destination to dip into a little bit of everything as the local talent prepares for yet another year in the vibrant Austin music scene. Here are some acts music fans should catch over the first weekend in January. All for free in the Red River Cultural District in the downtown Austin area.

Case Cockrell Live Music Review

Live music review: The best of LEVITATION Festival 2023

November 1, 2023 Case Cockrell 1726 Views 13th Floor, DAIISTAR, Death From Above 1979, Far Out Lounge, Fuck Money, Levitation, mohawk, Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band, The Black Angels, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols

For 2023, Levitation, founded by Austin psych-rock wizards The Black Angels and festival organizer Rob Fitzpatrick, brought the goods for this year’s installment. From garage rock overlord Ty Segall to EDM titan Flying Lotus to the neo psych-rock of Black Angels, Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Levitation brought a vast array of elements that makes festival’s Austin takeover something special for fans and performing artists alike

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Live music preview: Club X and Cosmic Clash presents Como Las Movies at 13th Floor Sunday

June 5, 2023 Greg Ackerman 740 Views 13th Floor, Alex Cosmico, Club X, Como Las Movies, Cumbia, Nemegata, psych-rock, Sabrina Ellis

Sunday, Club X (Mas Music and Misti Watts) and The Cosmic Clash presents Como Las Movies at 13th Floor this Sunday, June 11 at 8 p.m. with Nemegata and Alex Cosmico with DJ Ed Gonzalez (Fading Yellow).

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Live music review: Black Flag at Mohawk and Combichrist at Elysium Saturday

March 27, 2023 Robert Dean 2331 Views 13th Floor, Black Flack, Combichrist, Elysium, Greg Ginn, Khost, live music, Mike Vallely, mohawk, Review

I wanted to clown on this current incarnation of Black Flag. I really did. Going into the show on Saturday at Mohawk, my expectations were low. When a legendary band has gone through a cadre of lineups over the years, it’s hard to get excited when Greg Ginn is the only original member up there chugging away on the hits that are so influential to our lives.

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SXSW preview: Octopus Project to play 13th Floor Tuesday

March 9, 2023 Greg Ackerman 791 Views 13th Floor, BALTHVS, Caleb De Casper, Laveda, SXSW, SXSW 2023, Tetchy, The Octopus Project

Typically heading into South by Southwest (SXSW), we’re neck deep into finding new bands to see during the 10-day long festival that begins Friday. With that in mind, The Cosmic Clash partnered with Play to the Plants to curate a special lineup featuring local electro-pop-punk heroes, The Octopus Project at The Black Angels-owned 13th Floor on Tuesday, March 14

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