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Austin's Levitation festival runs October 27-30 with OSEES, King Gizzard, JAMC, The Black Angels, Trail of Dead, Godspeed, Protomartyr, Os Mutantes, Moon Duo and lots more.

Desert Daze returns for its 2022 edition next weekend, on September 30-October 3 in Lake Perris, CA, and there have been a few last-minute changes to the lineup.

Desert Daze's 2022 lineup includes Tame Impala, King Gizzard, Iggy Pop, Chicano Batman, Sky Ferreira, Perfume Genius, Kikagaku Moyo, Shannon & The Clams, BADBADNOTGOOD, The Marias, Fuzz, JPEGMAFIA, and lots more.

The 2022 edition of Desert Daze also features Sky Ferreira, BADBADNOTGOOD, JPEGMAFIA, Men I Trust, Fuzz, Pond, Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, Sleaford Mods, DakhaBrakha, Shannon and the Clams, Duster, Viagra Boys, and more.

The fest includes full-album sets from The Flaming Lips, Wu-Tang, and Ween, plus sets from DEVO, Flying Lotus, The Locust, Atlas Sound, and much more...

Wu-Tang will play ’36 Chambers’ in full, Ween will play ’Chocolate & Cheese’ in full, plus Alvvays, Devo, Pussy Riot, Jessica Pratt, and more.

TR/ST, Tobacco, Beak>, Lala Lala, Ryley Walker, David J, Night Beats, and more have also been added to the 2019 Levitation Festival runs November 7-10 in downtown Austin.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Fruit Bats, Mountain Man, YOB, Damien Jurado, Lambchop, and much more...

Phil Pirrone is the cofounder of the Desert Daze festival but also makes heady psych as JJUUJJUU. He just released JJUUJJUU's debut album, ’Zionic Mud,' a heavy trip that incorporates of sonic weapons in its all manner of psychic warfare...

This week's edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on Sirius XM we pulled from the initial lineup of the 2018 Desert Daze festival (which is pretty sweet). We played songs by Tame Impala, Mercury Rev, Warpaint, Preoccupations, Connan Mockasin, A Place to Bury Strangers, Can, King Khan, Pond and lots more.