Austin Psych Fest II

I guess that Michio Kurihara was there too w/ Boris?

Nope, just the standard Boris lineup.

CLINIC! CLINIC! CLINIC! (was so happy to see them finally!)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8396/8691140363_9142c4baab.jpg

Clinic were the very last band to play, but the people who were left were WAY into them (a crowd surfer even had their own surgical mask).

Also, I want to nominate Billy Gibbons as the Czar of the National Strategic Guitar Tone Reserve. Most of the Moving Sidewalks' set was your standard 1969-vintage psych blues, but hearing him bust out a couple of Hendrix covers was like seeing Mickey Mantle play baseball. Utterly timeless.

Took some video here and there... Will post at some point, but it's time to go westbound and down. Still need to perform my civic duty and listen to Tres Hombres in Texas.

"while driving through Texas" I mean.

First announcement for 2014 is pretty great:

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/get-psyched-for-austin-psych-fest

Headliners are fine and all, but imo this poster surges in the middle and finishes strong.

http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/21040/APF2014-WEB.jpg

missin' the stank, but otherwise looks solid!

That is a nice variety.

The Golden Dawn!!!!

there is a small chance (depending on gf's grad school application results) that i may be living in austin in May, so i'd be pretty pumped to attend if i could!

Going again! Had such a great time at the last one.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-02-07/playback-unlocking-infest/

Psych Fest's Second Movement

The Reverberation Appreciation Society confirms a second wave of acts performing at the seventh annual Austin Psych Fest May 2-4 at Carson Creek Ranch. Headliner Primal Scream has fallen off the bill following news last week that the Scottish rockers canceled their U.S. tour. "The cancellation of a top-billed artist is quite a blow for a small independent festival like Austin Psych Fest," admits festival organizer Rob Fitzpatrick. "While we did our best to try and keep them on the bill after the tour got scrapped, the band couldn't make it work." In their place, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, which headlined Psych Fest two years ago, and Dandy Warhols, the former act's co-stars in essential rock doc Dig! This second vetting, which comes in the wake of the APF's initial Dec. 4 announcement, heralds the return of Nigerian guitar slinger Bombino, who pairs nicely with fellow Saharan desert rockers Terakaft. Other notables joining previously announced psych festers Loop, the Zombies, the Horrors, Of Montreal, Black Lips, and Black Angels include garage-pop idol Mikal Cronin, Swedish retro-metallers Graveyard, and TV on the Radio side project Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band. The Octopus Project leads a list of new locals: Pure X, Holy Wave, Roger Sellers, and Mirror Travel. Other new additions include Temples, Night Beats, Warlocks, Peaking Lights, Pink Mountaintops, the Fresh & Onlys, Bardo Pond, Asteroid #4, Sleepy Sun, Cosmonauts, Indian Jewelry, Elephant Stone, Golden Animals, Morgan Delt, Mark McGuire, Secret Colours, Doug Tuttle, and Les Big Byrd. "We know it will be the best year yet," enthuses Fitzpatrick, "regardless of this bump in the road."

More to the point: BARDO POND!

Rightly so.

oh man!!

I just bought tickets. Too many bands I've long wanted to see that won't be anywhere else near me.

ugh you guys i want to go to this SOOO BAD

is the venue nice? are we talking multiple stages here? if so, how badly do the sets conflict?

that Doug Tuttle album is awesome

Pictures above should give you an idea at least. Thought the venue was outstanding for what's basically a big park next to a river.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBS2G2zwj_Y

thanks for posting that video, it certainly seems to capture what it's like being there. huge help.

i wish more festivals spread their programming across multiple indoor venues in an urban settin as opposed to setting up stages in a giant field. like SXSW and MusicfestNW in Portland, although MFNW just changed from the former to the latter.

oh Elvis, man, i just scrolled up. somehow i had totally missed your 2013 reports/pics/vids. wouldn't have even asked my question if i had seen 'em. thanks.

The problem with multiple indoor venues are the lines to get in - makes stage-hopping very difficult if you have to keep waiting.

Medicine just added!

Also, there's some sort of pre-party going on with The Warlocks. More info as it comes in...

Anyone else here going?

I'm going. Won't catch the pre-show, but I'll be there for the fest itself.

Daily Lineups are up. Loop closing the festival:

http://www.austinpsychfest.com/daily-lineups-and-single-day-passes-released/

Annoyed that I have to choose between Medicine, Acid Mothers Temple, and The Horrors on Saturday night.

medicine

That's what I'm leaning towards even though I saw them last year.

Yeah, that's one of the worst overlaps. Leaning toward Medicine myself.

acid mothers were kind of a letdown when i saw them, might of just been an off night though

So, I still detest festivals, but this was pretty amazing.

pretty bummed I wasn't able to go

As I suspected, my favorite bands were the ones I had no clue about... La Femme's manic on-the-border-of-silly-but-totally-in-control garagesplatter mayhem. Kikagaku Moyo's utterly heroic transcendence (so badass they play the sitar standing up)

Loop was perfect. By Sunday, Psych Fest was in need of a serious Wire-like intensity to blow out the "hey man, keep Austin weird hippies" and Loop delivered. "Arc Light," "Mother Sky" and a light show the size of a drive-in movie theater was worth the drive and deficit spending to get out here.

Also, I met EZ Snappin! Subtract another degree of ILX separation.

Don't forget Zombie Zombie! No clue they'd be that much fun.

http://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/album/float-along-fill-your-lungs

my coworker caught these guys, said they were amazing. this song is an entrancing behemoth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzTfiZ7a2JY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rDW3fCoUAQ

Nice!

EZ, Elvis, other Austin locals,

are any of you musicians with an interest in making some kind of psychedelic music on a casual level?

I would if I played anything, or at least anything vaguely well. Alas, I do not.

I'm always up for that, but I don't live in Austin. (I live in LA)

My rather long Psych Fest diary is up:

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/85914798692/sfb-psych-fest

Black Ryder at APF a couple years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzgwRNf920

First round of bands for next year announced. Has about 10% of the appeal of the 2014 lineup, but I bet it'll sell more tickets:

http://www.austinpsychfest.com/2015-festival/levitation-2015-lineup/

That line up and "rebranding" makes it sound like Urban Outfitters took over. Why let The Flaming Lips on stage in the year 2015?

This confused me at first. So Levitation (which I think is a good name) is the new name of APF? Did they announce this and I missed it? In other words, this is the APF lineup, not a second event.

correct. They've used Levitation overseas and want to unite the brands.

and this lineup is 90% suck.

yeesh. looks like I missed the boat to go to one of these, then :(

Some good bands in the middle-tier, but I'm going to sit this one out.

O RLY?

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2015-02-12/13th-floor-elevators-to-reunite-at-levitation-festival/

two friends just flew down for this from NY...

all that scary weather everyone was panicked about is looking less and less likely to materialize, very typical Austin weather paranoia

All the scary weather went up I-35 to DFW.

and all the backup shows sold out instantly

Pictures from the Sleep, Boris, SunnO show show amplifier stacks worthy of MBV if not more. Worth searching instagram for picts.