“Car Key,” the fourth song on the Difference Machine’s 2022 album, Unmasking the Spirit Fakers, starts with a billowing cloud of reverb. As it dissipates, a Tanpura drone uncurls into the stereo field ...

The Chicago Psych Fest is a long-running local celebration of trippy synergy that brings together all things loud and weird. It fully embraces the wide-open definition of psychedelic music to ...

Austin Psych Fest is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year with a stellar line-up of psych-rock, dream pop, and indie rock at the historic Far Out Lounge. First opening in 1908, the South ...

Ah, Levitation Fest. The most wonderful time of the year for psych music in Austin. Beneath all of the tech gentrification and California scooter-bros, this city is rooted in "The Psychedelic Sounds ...

Daiistar’s San Antonio show is the start of a lengthy tour. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Daiistar Formidable Austin psych group Daiistar will play a release show this Sunday at San Antonio’s Paper Tiger ...

From lullabies to first dances, shared music shapes attachment, lowers stress, and strengthens emotional bonds across a ...

This year's Levitation Fest was a spiritual baptism. In the midst of life's trials and tribulations, catharsis is getting bruised and boozed up in some of the best music venues in town. My high point ...

One of the most unique sub-genres to ever come out of rock ‘n’ roll is psychedelic rock. It ruled a whole generation and was arguably the genre of the ’60s. Following its peak, psychedelic rock ...

Like Levitation 2024 before it, the Black Angels’ annual celebration of psychedelic music has expanded its genre constraints to spotlight the best of all things alternative, from indie rock legends ...

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The counterculture, the civil rights issues and pop culture of the decade led to some pretty incredible tunes—especially when we talk about psychedelic music. The 1960's seemed to be quite a time to ...