This
weekend is the 5th Annual
Austin Psych
Fest, which is a three day long
event featuring some of the nation’s best
psychedelic bands. For the first time the festival
is being held at Emo’s East and the Beauty Ballroom
on East Riverside Drive. While the festival doesn’t
begin until Friday, there will be a pre-fest party
at Red 7 tomorrow night featuring Indian Jewelry,
Christian Bland and the Revelators, the Wolf and
more.
For those lucky enough to be going to this highly
underrated festival, there are many, many bands I
recommend you do not miss. The first of which is
Mind Spiders, a band I’ve proudly championed here
many times before. Other bands you need to see are
Austin’s own Holy Wave and Pure X, Woods, the Black
Lips, and Thee Oh Sees. Honestly, the whole lineup
is impressive from top to bottom, and I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t more buzz and excitement for
this event. Outside of SXSW and the Fun Fun Fun
Fest, you’re not going to find a better collection
of bands playing over three days here in Austin. You
can sample the sounds of the festival by downloading
this a
mixtape
which features 23 of the groups on the bill. The
schedule for each day of APF is listed below.
:The
Black Angels - Entrance Song:
:Wooden
Shjips - Black Smoke Rise:
:Woods
- Out Of The Eye:
:The
Intelligence - Tuned To Puke:
:Pink
Mountaintops - Holiday:
FRIDAY
The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Psychic Ills, Peaking
Lights, Disappears, Night Beats, Sun Araw, Ringo
Deathstarr, Feeding People, Allah Las, Acid Baby
Jesus, Moon Duo, Lotus Plaza, Sleep Over, Stranger
Family Band, The Meek, Cosmonauts, Holy Wave, Al
Lover
SATURDAY
The Black Lips, Olivia Tremor Control, The
Telescopes, Pink Mountaintops, Woods, Entrance Band,
Spindrift, Pure X, Amen Dunes, Quilt, Asteroid #4,
Prince Rama, Mind Spiders, Feathers, Singapore
Sling, Mmoss, Quest For Fire, Vacant Lots, Smoke and
Feathers, The Band In Heaven, The Cush, The Ripe,
The Stepkids
SUNDAY
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Meat Puppets, Thee Oh
Sees, Bombino, Wooden Shijps, Dead Confederate, The
Golden Dawn perform "Power Plant", The UFO Club,
Federale, Blue Angel Lounge, Headdress, New Fumes,
Wall of Death, Paperhead, Brooklyn Raga Association,
Orange Revival, Ancient River
Some tickets are still available for purchase
here.
A three day passes runs $120 and daily passes are
$45.
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