Bedroom Pop, Comfort for the Sad Unknown

Michael Seyer, Bane’s World & Inner Wave take back humanity

"...the night with a Latin concoction of garage rock, psychedelia, and soul. The sunny surf rock of “American Spirits”..."

July 10, 2018 Music Post by Jeremy Steinberger

Snapshot: Levitation All Lit Up

Meet the visual artists behind the psych music fest’s trippy light shows

"...Psychedelia doesn't exist without a visual element. At least, that's..."

May 4, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

Levitation Review: Oh Sees

Enthralling, pit-churning, full-frontal riff and beat assault

"...a super-saturated set-list pulled audience-gripping garage rock and ferocious psychedelia from his comprehensive catalog. Selections off last year’s Orc,..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Levitation Review: Wooden Shjips, Acid Mothers Temple, ST 37, Yoo Doo Right

The ABCs of psychedelia

"...Repetition is an important component of psychedelia, from adaptations of the German motorik beat to one-chord..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

Levitation Review: Föllakzoid, The Men, Vuelveteloca

Guitarist’s pedalboard steals the show

"...quartet laying out its crisp, driving, riff-mongering take on psychedelia as lorded over by the gamma ray vocals of..."

April 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Review: Holy Wave & Ringo Deathstarr

Lauded locals align for psychedelic/shoegaze double feature

"...month’s Adult Fear, Holy Wave remained defined by washy psychedelia while anchoring to pop hooks and solidified song structure...."

April 27, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

After Two-Year Hiatus Levitation Hits the Clubs

Droning on with Slowdive, Electric Wizard, Ian Svenonius, and Bedouine

"...Tank-grade doom colored by brown acid psychedelia, Electric Wizard still riffs, roars, and rumbles through the..."

April 27, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Recommended Shows for Levitation Weekend

The sounds may be scattered all over Austin, but here are a few must-see performances

"...categorization, phasing between shoegaze, acid punk, ethereal pop, and neo-psychedelia with vocal tandem Alex Gehring and Elliott Frazier striving..."

April 27, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Stonefield

"...the Storm"), their momentum wanes with milder moments of psychedelia. Drummer Amy Findlay's expansive, cutting vocals and breakneck guitar..."

April 27, 2018 Music Review by Libby Webster

Live Music Recommendations: April 13-19

Texas Independence Fest grinds, Ibeyi smooths it out, and more

"...channels a century of South American grooves through CenTex psychedelia with Grupo Fantasma’s Beto Martinez in tow. Monks proprietor..."

April 12, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Holy Wave

"...bathe listeners in dreamy distortion, languid layers of keyboard-prominent psychedelia flowing inevitably toward a distant shore. On fourth voyage..."

April 13, 2018 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

Mitch Chandler

"...Virginia native pays homage to the Sixties. Not its psychedelia, but the moody, melodic improv found behind monotone photos..."

April 6, 2018 Music Review by Michael Toland

SXSW Music Review: Garden & Gun Showcase

Are you ready for the country (revolution)?

"...Gurgiolo’s guitar. Her local fivepiece stretched various shades of psychedelia, from expansive desert swirls to country-tinged Western psych and..."

March 15, 2018 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Essential Indie Acts at SXSW Music

Sneaks, Speedy Ortiz, and six other indie sets you won't want to miss

"...with the slightest Brooklyn jangle, an underlying swirl of psychedelia, dream-pop, and jazz. Understated and mellow, the quartet blends..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Priority Pop at SXSW Music

If you've gotta pick and choose, you can't go wrong with these 11 breakouts

"...year's EP offers more love-soaked melodies and smoky pop psychedelia set aflame by singer Sam Sarty. The Marías..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

SXSW Music Interview: Dawg Yawp

Where sitar meets American folk song

"...carefully curated elements of folk, bluegrass, rock, electronic, and psychedelia, the duo homes in on something all their own...."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Teevee

"...sprawl, topping off the buoyant capture of thick, bubbling psychedelia. Muted, lo-fi drums shake up sighing "Lovedrive," landing on..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

The Boleys Put an Acid-Punk Spin on the Family Bands of the Sixties

Ethan, Emma & Jovian Boley do the punk rock

"..."She Won't Get High," veer from Sabbath-weight fuzz and psychedelia to lengthy bouts of jazzy swing and rampaging punk...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Tinnarose, Abram Shook, Carry Illinois

Barracuda, Jan. 5

"...set list, at times slipping into a reserved folk psychedelia conjuring Jefferson Airplane, which also accounted for a hammering,..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Music Review by Libby Webster

The Creation

"...post-mod years (1967's "Life Is Just Beginning") and Beatlesque psychedelia ("Ostrich Man," "I Am the Walker," also '67) also..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Music Review by Michael Toland

All ATX

"...2014 exploded the British Invasion, 2015 segued perfectly into psychedelia on All Along the Moontower, and last year stabilized..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Austin’s Rarest Vinyl

Want exclusive vinyl for Record Store Black Friday? Check out some of Austin's rarest wax.

"...Fabulous Mark III "Psycho" 7-inch (Twink Records, 1972) Black psychedelia. Last sold at auction in 2010 for $700. Breakaway..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

ST 37

"...Rule proves anything, it's that ST 37 held Austin's psychedelia flag in place through a Nineties underground awash in..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

The Crack Pipes

"...its foundation with successful excursions into soul, country, and psychedelia. Given the variety of approaches documented here, the band..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Review by Michael Toland

Sunday ACL Fest Record Reviews

City Club (Cult Records)

"...Fifth Growlers LP City Club feels distantly familiar. Dirty psychedelia and surf rock elements remain, tied together by Brooks..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

My Gear: Bob Mustachio

An annotated look at the equipment behind the A/V experimentalist

"...of surrealist concert visuals, Bob Mustachio, continues redefining Texas psychedelia. You've beheld his creations backdropping the Black Angels, Levitation,..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

George Kinney & the Golden Dawn

"...whittled a niche all their own in emergent Texas psychedelia. Listening to 1968's Power Plant in retrospect, you can..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Review by Greg Beets

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your cheat sheet for three days of fun

"...& roll and honky-tonk, while Rotten Mangos favor scuzzy psychedelia. Magic Rockers of Texas floor an adrenaline-driven blues and..."

July 28, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your handbook for a happy Friday and Saturday

"...hymnbook also opens to Angry Beige, who float moody psychedelia with eerie harmonies and unusualist lyrics, earnest psych-pop act..."

July 7, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

All Over the Map, True Heroes of Texas Music

"...rap, Corcoran equates master innovator DJ Screw to hip-hop psychedelia. Framing the psychic assault of left-field punks the Butthole..."

June 16, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

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