We thought an announcement was coming at 2pm, but Emo's has spilled the beans a few hours early. Taking place on April 27th through the 29th at newly neighboring (and new in general) venues Emo’s East and The Beauty Ballroom, the fifth installment of the Psych Fest will start selling tickets on the 21st of this month. You can purchase them at the Psych Fest website or at the Emo's website. Lastly, "More artists will be announced in March along with daily schedules and day tickets." more ›

In a move that should pierce through the onslaught of SXSW news this week, The Reverberation Appreciation Society and The Black Angels have announced that the fourth installment of the Austin Psych Fest has moved from the Mexitas Event Center to the legendary Seaholm Power Plant April 29-May 1. more ›

Austin Psych Fest 3 happened over the weekend at Mohawk, and the spectacle did not disappoint. Austinist contributing photographers were on hand to document the entire weekend. Here's a look at night one. more ›

Austin Psych Fest 3 happened over the weekend at Mohawk, and the spectacle did not disappoint. Austinist contributing photographers were on hand to document the entire weekend. Here's a look at night one. more ›

Austin Psych Fest 3 happened over the weekend at Mohawk, and the spectacle did not disappoint. Austinist contributing photographers were on hand to document the entire weekend. Here's a look at night one. more ›

We hope you’ve been enjoying all our interviews leading up to this weekend’s Austin Psych Fest at The Mohawk. Today, we bring you our conversation with Christian Bland, guitarist for The Black Angels and a member of The Reverberation Appreciation Society, curators of this emerging festival. The Black Angels will headline the outside stage on Saturday the 24th and perform again on Sunday at 7 p.m.; expect to hear healthy portions of their new record (if not the entire record!) during their two sets. The album is set to be released this July. more ›

As part of Austinist's Psych Fest coverage, we're running some interesting interviews with participating bands written by our friend, Ryan Muldoon. Here's his interview with Daughters of the Sun. more ›

Danish duo the Raveonettes sound a bit like someone put one of Quentin Tarantino's soundtracks in a blender. Fifties and sixties riffs are coupled with bursts of noise, hypnotic drum beats, Everly Brothers-inspired harmonies, and guitar lines that range from the surf rock sublime to riotous solos straight off an early Dinosaur Jr. record. more ›

Let's get this out of the way right now: The Dutchess and The Duke owe heavy debts to the early Rolling Stones and, to a lesser degree, (Van Morrison's) Them. The harmony vocals, guitar picking, and simple but brilliant direct arrangements feel like they should be coming from a scratchy 45 - which isn't a bad thing at all. The duo's 2008 debut She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke earned praise from Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes for the organic approach to recording employed (they used an 8-track) and the resulting effort, which was described as simultaneously "dated" and "classic."

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Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (this weekend at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Austin’s The Tunnels. more ›

As part of Austinist's Psych Fest coverage, we're running some interesting interviews with participating bands written by our friend, Ryan Muldoon. Here's his interview with The Meek. more ›

Pink Mountaintops is the doe-eyed, experimental psych rock mistress to Stephen McBean’s other outfit which the songwriter, guitarist and co-vocalist helms, Black Mountain. An argument could be made for the reverse as well, however, being that both bands emerged at roughly the same time and have been nipping at each other’s heels in terms of album release schedule ever since. It’s a special treat for McBean’s fans though, who get twice as much music to lose themselves in than usual. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (this weekend at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Brooklyn’s The Vandelles. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (this weekend at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with L.A.’s Sky Parade. more ›

How did Silver Apples become one of the most influential bands of the late 1960s? Why, a guy in the East Village named Simeon Coxe III began to sing weird modal tone poems over a vintage 1940s audio oscillator, which eventually grew into a homemade synthesizer monstrosity of 12 oscillators stacked on top of one another and manipulated through a total of 86 manual controls, which he dubbed ‘The Simeon,’ of course. (As you can see from the picture, The Simeon appears to be a nightmarish, postwar German version of something The Octopus Project might play, something that’s probably worth the price of admission even disregarding its stellar musical progeny.) more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Austin’s Rayon Beach. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Houston’s Indian Jewelry. more ›

A four-piece with just one EP to their name, Warpaint have nonetheless managed to impress the music world at large. Rough Trade Records have signed the band and are planning a release of their first LP, and the disparate modes behind their songwriting have impressed fans with their their sound fluid, ever-changing, and apparently "psychedelic" sound. more ›

Legend has it that for some poor souls in the 1960’s, there existed the belief that smoking dried banana peels would result in a pleasant, hallucinatory experience (“They call it mellow yellow,” sang Donovan). Let this misguided belief be caution to any Austin Psych Fest enthusiasts who threaten to fall victim to pure nostalgia (“Be here now!” said Ram Dass). more ›

While technically Bensussen hews closely to the sample-delic sounds of mid-90s production, he brings a notably un-hippie-ish sense of aggression, if not outright hostility, to his overall aesthetic. He named his latest EP My Troubled Mind, if that's any indication. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with New York’s City Center. more ›

Vincent Van Gogh once said, “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” And if he hadn’t have died about 120 years before the formation of the Seattle-via-Texas trio known as The Night Beats, we’d think for sure he was referring specifically to their brand of psychedelic stomp. (Of course, there’s also the whole missing ear thing, which may or may not have kept the painter from falling head-over-heels for ugly garage rock.) more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Austin’s Christian Bland & The Revelators. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Brooklyn’s Von Haze. more ›

Austin Psych Fest (at The Mohawk, April 23rd - 25th) has released its schedule for Sunday -- check it out via the official website. We’re especially excited to have another opportunity to catch legendary New York band The Silver Apples, who were last in town in 2007. Other talent on display on the final day of the festival includes The Gaslamp Killer, The Warlocks, and The Dutchess And The Duke, along with Austin’s own All In The Golden Afternoon and Rayon Beach. Get your tickets today! more ›

They say it takes two to tango - apparently, it also takes two to create a massive wall of over-driven, electronic, ear-splitting musical beauty. Or at least that’s what the two members of Screen Vinyl Image have a reputation for doing. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with L.A.’s Spindrift. more ›

As part of Austinist's Psych Fest coverage, we're running some interesting interviews with participating bands written by our friend, Ryan Muldoon. Here's his first contribution, an interview with Ringo Death Starr. more ›

Leading up to Austin Psych Fest 3 (April 23rd - 25th at The Mohawk), we’ll be spending five minutes with many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival. Today, we catch up with Austin’s Cry Blood Apache. more ›

It started out as a single day event at The Red Barn in 2008, then piggy-backed on the opening weekend of SXSW again last year, but this April, The Mohawk will host three full days devoted entirely to the sonic and visual onslaught that is Austin Psych Fest. Curated by local band The Black Angels and The Reverberation Appreciation Society, APF3 will once again present some of the finest acts in the psychedelic music realm, along with a fair share of mind numbing imagery, no doubt. more ›