Levitation 2025: La Femme

Saturday at 8:20pm before TVOTR.  Per Wikipedia:

La Femme are a French rock band established by guitarist Sacha Got and keyboard player Marlon Magnée in 2010 in Biarritz...The band's music has been described as synthetic and hypnotic. It mixes elements of cold wave, punk, and yéyé, with musical influence from artists such as Sparks, The Velvet Underground, and Kraftwerk.

"Elle ne t'aime pas" is nice.  Right up my alley.

"Óu Va Le Monde" is them live on Jam in the Van. It has a little surf rock sound mixed in. It's good. Reminds me of The Raveonettes.

This will have the heads bobbing. I like these guys.

Levitation 2025: Swervedriver

 Saturday at 5pm.  Per Wikipedia:

Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxford in 1989...They had emerged with a heavier rock sound than their shoegaze contemporaries, and over the next five years it evolved to include elements of psychedelia, classic pop, and indie rock...Record label issues and waning interest within the group led to their split at the end of 1998. A decade later, Swervedriver reunited and toured periodically over the next five years, releasing their first new material in fifteen years with the 2013 single "Deep Wound". They have since released two full-length albums, I Wasn't Born to Lose You in 2015 and Future Ruins in 2019.

The band's sound has been labelled as shoegaze, alternative rock, dream pop, and grunge.

They've been around since 1989 and while I recognize the name I don't recall ever hearing any of their music.  I guess they aren't in my wheelhouse.  Let's see what they sound like.

This is "Deep Wound" live on KEXP. Has a Bob Mould/Hüsker Dü feel.

"Rave Down" is their most streamed song on Spotify.  

This has a video with it.  Reminds me of The Smithereens.

Levitation 2025: Model/Actriz

3:30pm after Wednesday and before Blonde Redhead.  Per Wikipedia:

Model/Actriz is an American rock band, formed in 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, that is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of drummer Ruben Radlauer, guitarist Jack Wetmore, vocalist Cole Haden, and bassist Aaron Shapiro.  The band's music has been described as post-punk and noise rock. Frontman Haden often incorporates queer sexual themes in his lyrics "as a gay person working in a genre that’s not very outwardly gay."

It also says:

Drummer Ruben Radlauer and guitarist Jack Wetmore were childhood acquaintances whose fathers were in a band together in the 1980s. Radlauer and Wetmore reconnected while attending Berklee College of Music, and decided to start a band together.

"Cinderella" is interesting.  It's a mix of EDM like My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and bass-heavy post-punk like Joy Division.  Here they are playing it live on Colbert.

"Diva" has a cool bass line.

This is their most streamed song on Spotify. Reminds me of LCD Soundsystem with it's dance tempo. 

Levitation 2025: Goat Girl

Saturday at 2pm.  Per Wikipedia:

Goat Girl is an English post-punk band from South London.

They are on Rough Trade Records. According to this article they're named in reference to Bill Hicks’s lusty alter ego, Goat Boy. Sweet. Here's the bit.

"Words Fell Out" is one of their newer songs. Chill. Bass line is similar to Joy Division.

"Cracker Drool" is them live on KEXP.

This is their most streamed song. A good warmup for Wednesday.

Levitation 2025: Hooveriii

Saturday at 1:20pm.  According to this article:

After several years spent mapping the outer fringes of modern psychedelia, Los Angeles collective Hooveriii (pronounced “Hoover Three”) return with Manhunter — a rich and expansive fifth album that smartly ties together the raw urgency of their earlier work with the more cinematic ambitions they’ve been gradually embracing. If their self-titled debut in 2018 introduced a lo-fi garage-psych outfit with a taste for sci-fi aesthetics and fuzzy repetition

"Melody" has a T-Rex/White Denim vibe. 

"Wake Up" is them live.  I like the keyboards. Reminds me of The Cars.

This is them live on KEXP.  Chill song. Has a Grateful Dead feel. The guitarist even looks a little like a young Jerry Garcia.