Psych Fest 2 Annihilates This Weekend

Friday the 13th again? Didn't this already happen, like, last month? Well, the second time around promises to be a lot weirder and heavier...provided you've done the smart thing and boogied over to the so-new-it's-not-even-open-yet venue Radio Room on East 6th Street for Psych Fest 2, a three-day celebration of all things loud and swirly.

The fest is not, however, an exercise in flower-power nostalgia: indeed, this year's lineup is a cross-reference of pretty much every modern sound that could possibly fall under the "psychedelic" banner, throwing together the blown-out futurism of Brooklyn's A Place To Bury Strangers, the drug-mellowed West Coast fuzz of The Warlocks and Dead Meadow, the classic Vietnam-flashback drone of Wooden Shjips and The Black Angels, the synth freakness of Houston's Indian Jewelry, and the jangly reverberations of Austin's own The Strange Boys into one altogether intimidating package. That list, by the way, covers maybe half the bands featured on the lineup--you can see the full lineup posted after the jump. And did we neglect to mention the liquid light projections (by Adam Demetri and Scott Conn), artwork (by Black Angel Christian Bland and counterculture O.G.s The Vulcan Gas Company), and classic trip sequence projections (by I Luv Video and Austin Underground Film Fest)? We're experiencing sensory overload just writing all this down. (p.s. check out our interview with The Black Angels embedded below the lineup.)

Follow the jump for all the details!