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The former Austin Psych Fest, a music and camping festival that focuses on reverb and fuzz.
Hanging out at a friend’s party this past weekend, discussion turned to the upcoming Levitation festival, and the Australian psychedelic act King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I like what I’m hearing from them,...
The 2016 Levitation Lineup includes: Brian Wilson PERFORMING PET SOUNDS • Animal Collective • Caribou • Flying Lotus • Slowdive(band) • Sleep • Nicolas Jaar • The Brian Jonestown Massacre • The Black...
In the week after the Positivus Festival, nearly all my friends and acquaintances in Riga asked me, “How was your Positivus?” It’s sort of like asking someone how their Christmas or their summer vacation...
After thinking a lot after Austin Psych Fest and then been catching up on this season’s Mad Men television show (where I hate that they’ve moved from the very pretty early 1960s to the...
Back when I was in elementary school, we were in a unit learning about the tumultuous events of the 1960s, which included everything from Vietnam to the Civil Rights movement. It was going slowly....
At the very end of the 2014 Austin Psych Fest, I wandered over to the main exit. There I saw Thomas from Virginia, who was traveling around. He’d made these awesome screenprints for Austin...
Austin Psych Fest was fab and dusty and thought-provoking. Lots of bands happened. Here are some pictures from the event. If you want to see more pictures, there is a set on Flickr. Update: Austin...
Like a lot of people at Austin Psych Fest, I was totally blown away by the Sunday night show by Japanese/British band Bo Ningen. I heard all sorts of people at the festival talking...
Through little advance planning–and a tipoff from a European music industry pal–I managed to catch Temples TWICE during South By Southwest 2014. I’m super-excited to be seeing them again at Austin Psych Fest! Their...
Austin based band The Black Angels is curating Austin Psych Fest. It’s a hometown crowd, it’s their very own festival and it’s certainly an appreciative audience for their brand of psychedelic rock! Based on...
