wall of death

Courtney Barnett, Ween, The Arcs, Melody's Echo Chamber, Klaus Johann Grobe & more added to 2016 Levitation lineup

Austin’s Levitation Fest just announced a bunch of great additions to its 2016 lineup, including Courtney Barnett, Ween, The Arcs, Melody’s Echo Chamber, plus Swiss krautrockers Klaus Johann Grobe (finally coming to North America), David J & The Gentlemen Thieves (performing Love & Rockets / Bauhaus songs), Holy Wave, Wall of Death, Nots, Christian Bland & The Revelators, Magic Wands, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Bayonne, Federale, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Sm…

Night Beats releasing new LP, made a video, going on tour, playing Levitation France fest (dates, streams)

Seattle’s Night Beats are back with a new album, Sonic Bloom, that’s out September 24 via Reverberation Appreciation Society. It’s thirteen tracks of groovy, garagey psych and perfect for your next head trip…

Austin Psych Fest: Day 2 in pics (Deerhunter, Boris, Black Mountain, Kaleidoscope, Man or Astroman? ++ more)

Deerhunter took a long time setting up, and a long time scuffling through a needlessly elaborate twinkle-rock atmospheric intro, but at their peak they’ve got an impeccably sharp sound that cuts through the self-conscious drone from the rest of the weekend…

Austin Psych Fest 2013: Day 2 pics

Deerhunter, Os Mutantes, a reformed Kaleidoscope, Japanese experimental rockers Boris, and a little rain were some of the more memorable parts of Day 2 of Austin Psych Fest at Carson Creek Ranch…

Tamaryn DJing MoMA; Austin Psych Fest finalizes lineup

Tamaryn is DJing at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Sunday evening (4/7) as part of a PopRally event called “Abstract Currents.” Against projections of one-minute videos submitted by the public, Tamryn will provide a “hypnotic soundtrack to the collectively built abstract videoscape…

Austin Psych Fest daily line-ups released

Austin Psych Fest 2013 Austin Psych Fest is less than a month away (April 26 to 28), and the full line up is out (on the flyer above and listed below) as are the breakdowns by day…

Psych Fest day 3 - Meat Puppets, Thee Oh Sees, Bombino & more (pics)

We already posted pictures of the Brian Jonestown Massacre‘s capper to this year’s Austin Psych Fest, but here’s the rest of our Sunday (4/29) coverage from the Emo’s stage, including Thee Oh Sees (still bolstered by The Intelligence’s Lars Finberg), Arizona legends’ The Meat Puppets, Bombino, Wooden Shjips, Wall of Death, Blue Angel Lounge and more…

Slayer, Megadeth & Testament played classics, led a Wall of Death @ the Izod Center (pics, video, setlists)

In 1991 there was The Clash of The Titans tour, a meeting of some of the biggest names in metal at the moment with Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament all on board for European and US legs featuring a rotating cast of Alice In Chains, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, and more…

Municipal Waste's final wall of death @ FFF Fest (video)

During their performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin on Saturday (11/8), Tony Foresta announced that lame bands like Atreyu and Yelloward were doing the wall of death at their shows and therefore this would be Municipal Waste‘s last…