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Live music review: Austin Psych Fest brought eclectic talent from across the psych spectrum

April 30, 2025 Case Cockrell 314 Views Alex Maas, Austin Psych Fest, Black Mountain, Blackwater Holylight, Cumbia, Dinosaur Jr, electro psych, Explosions in the Sky, Far Out Lounge, Federale, Garrett T Capps, Geordie Greep, Godspeed You Black Emperor, indie rock, Kadavar, Kim Gordon, Levitation, live music, Los Mirlos, neo-jazz, neo-psych, pop rock, post rock, psych-rock, Review, rock n roll, STARFKR, stoner rock, The Mystery Lights, The Octopus Project

The Spring installment of Austin Psych Fest returned last weekend to The Far Out Lounge & Stage for a three-day, two-stage, no-overlap experience that brought over 30 acts to Austin for an eclectic weekend of music from all across the trippy psychedelic spectrum. For 2025, the billed talent stretched its boundaries by bringing a diverse array of artists that catered to fans of Psych Fest past and present. Here’s what stood out to us over the weekend-long stand in South Austin.

April Dawne Live Music Review

Live music review: Friday at Austin Psych Fest with Explosions in the Sky, Octopus Project and Godspeed You Black Emperor

April 29, 2025 April Dawne 410 Views Austin Psych Fest, EITS, Explosions in the Sky, Far Out Lounge, Federale, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jesse Sykes, Levitation, live music, music festival, post rock, psych-rock, Review, rock n roll, The Octopus Project

Austin has no shortage of music festivals and while most of them are amazing in some way, my favorite is Austin Psych Fest. This year, I caught Texas act, Explosions in the Sky, Austin’s The Octopus Project and Godspeed You! Black Emperor as well as some other worthwhile bands. This gem of a festival melted into Levitation (close second fave) and then split back into two different but equal festivals in 2023. APF is held at The Far Out Lounge, one of my favorite venues in Austin since the apocalypse.

Brian Hillsman Live Music Review

Live music review: Geordie Greep delivered memorable set at Austin Psych Fest

April 28, 2025 Brian Hillsman 311 Views APF, art rock, Austin Psych Fest, avant garde, Far Out Lounge, Geordie Greep, latin jazz, Levitation, live music, Music Festivals, new music, psych-rock, Resound

Accompanied with an ensemble band of instrumentalists, London’s Geordie Greep delivered a memorable set orbiting his solo LP debut The New Sound —released in October 2024— at South Austin’s Far Out Lounge on April 26 as part of Levitation and Resound’s Austin Psych Fest 2025.

Case Cockrell Live Music Preview

Live music preview: Six bands to watch at Austin Psych Fest 2025

April 17, 2025 Case Cockrell 749 Views Alex Maas, Austin Psych Fest, Black Mountain, Christian Bland, Etran de L'Air, experimental rock, Far Out Lounge, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Gordie Greep, Kadavar, Levitation, Levitation Room, live music, Maya Ongaku, post rock, preview, Primitive Ring, psych-rock, Queen Serene, Ringo Deathstarr, rock n roll, stoner rock, Suuns, The Octopus Project

Levitation’s Austin Psych Fest will return to Far Out Lounge and Stage in 2025, coming with a stacked lineup that features acts from all over the world to commemorate its third Spring edition since the return to an annual Springtime, one-location, two-stages, no-overlap festival experience. The three-day festival will feature legacy acts and underground picks that showcase yet another year of reverberation appreciation from the homegrown Austin festival. To help audiences prepare for the event, the team at The Cosmic Clash has curated six bands to watch for the festival during the last weekend of April (25-27), including the kickoff and late-night shows after each day of music

DoomBoyz 2 Stoner Jam SXSW 2025 Troy Gonzales

Case Cockrell Live Music Review

Live music review: Midweek SXSW 2025 jaunt to Radio East and Stoner Jam at Far Out

March 19, 2025 Case Cockrell 661 Views Amplified Heat, Being Dead, Bridge Farmers, Cardinals, Castle Club, DoomBoyz, Far Out Lounge, Native Sun, Pooheh Presents, Radio East, Slumbering Sun, Stoner Jam, Wand, Wishy, YHWH Nailgun

A hectic downtown Austin isn’t exclusive to the annual South By Southwest Festival. Whether a college student is people-watching on

Live Music Review Robert Dean

Live music review: Not So Fun WKND with Trapped Under Ice, God’s Hate and more at Far Out Lounge

March 12, 2025 Robert Dean 762 Views Dmize, Far Out Lounge, God's Hate, hardcore, hardcore music, live music, metal, Not So Fun WKND, NSFW, Parade of Flesh, Queensway, Review, rock n roll, Sagebrush, Suburban Scum, Trapped Under Ice

I bitch about Austin a lot—parking, traffic, rent prices. But every once in a while, the city gets it right. Not So Fun WKND at The Far Out Lounge March 8 was one of those moments. The all-day fest with Trapped Under Ice, Parade of Flesh, God’s Hate and many others took place at the popular South Austin venue. An opening party was held Friday, March 7 at Sagebrush with Suburban Scum, Dmize, Creeping Death and more. Hardcore bands from across the country descended on Austin, turning the weekend into a cathartic release of bad vibes and raw energy.

Case Cockrell Live Music Preview

Live music preview: Seven SXSW day parties not to miss in 2025

March 7, 2025 Case Cockrell 1360 Views 13th Floor, day parties, Far Out Lounge, Hotel Vegas, indie rock, live music, Marshall Amps, mohawk, preview, psych-rock, Psychedelic Plants Clash, rock n roll, South by Southwest, Spring Break Boogie, Stoner Jam, stoner rock, SXSW, The Cavalier, Webberville Block Party

For every year’s SXSW installment, different activations pop up all over the city to bring SX-goers daytime programming before things switch over to an all-official format in the evening. These day Parties mostly feature cover-free programming, sometimes even featuring official SXSW artists that give opportunities to non-credentialed music fans to join in on the festivities during the week. All listed events occur between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m., are free for attendees, and no badge is required, subject to capacit

Case Cockrell Live Music Preview

Live music preview: Austin Psych Fest announced masterfully curated lineup today

January 23, 2025 Case Cockrell 1149 Views Alex Maas, APF, Austin Psych Fest, Black Mountain, Darkside, Dinosaur Jr, Explosions in the Sky, Far Out Lounge, Garrett T Capps, Geordie Green, hard rock, Kim Gordon, Levitation, lineup announcement, live music, post rock, preview, psych-rock, punk rock, rock n roll, STRFKR

Levitation’s Austin Psych Fest will return to The Far Out Lounge & Stage in South Austin on April 25 – April 27 for yet another year of a masterfully curated lineup by famed booker Rob Fitzpatrick and Resound Presents. Since returning to a Spring edition on top of the regular Levitation Fall Edition, Austin Psych Fest has both stayed in touch with the current world of independent music at large and the roots of what made the festival the coveted phenomenon it is in the present day.

Case Cockrell Live Music Review

Live music review: Day one and two of Levitation brought world’s best independent acts to Austin

November 3, 2024 Case Cockrell 1079 Views A Place to Bury Strangers, Boris, Empire Garage, Far Out Lounge, hard rock, Leviation, live music, Mdou Moctar, Meatbodies, neo-psych, Pissed Jeans, post-punk, psych-rock, punk rock, Review, rock n roll, Slift, Stubb's, The Black Angels, The Jesus Lizard

The first two days of Levitation Festival 2024 featured multiple stacked bills for a plethora of packed venues in the downtown Austin area and beyond. The Cosmic Clash team was in attendance to capture the action and highlighted some of our favorite acts that made their way to Austin for the action-packed Halloween weekend. From the Red River Cultural District to South Austin, the carefully curated talent brought their best for the masses that flock to the local music joints to watch the coveted Black Angels produced weekend with some of the independent music world’s best acts.

April Riggs Live Music Review

Live music review: Mikaela Davis was angelic at Austin Psych Fest at Far Out Lounge

May 7, 2024 April Dawne 1660 Views Austin Psych Fest, experimental, Far Out Lounge, harp, jam rock, Levitation, live music, Mikaela Davis, psych country, psych-rock, Review

My first time seeing Mikaela Davis was on the BMI stage at the Austin City Limits Festival in 2015, and I expected her sound to be folkie, singer-songwriter music that I’m not typically into. When she took the stage with her harp, I heard an angelic, neo-psychedelic country sound that pleased my ears and I have followed her career via social media since.

Fast forward nine years to Day Three at Austin Psych Fest (2024), when festival-goers almost lost a mellow day of music due to the weather. The rain moved on and Van Mary eased us into a swampy day at the Janice Stage with a super-chill set. The afternoon continued to heat up as Mikaela Davis & Southern Star took to the Willie Stage for the final day of APF.

Music News Robert Dean

Music News: When Dr. Cornel West Talks Music, You Listen

April 22, 2024 Robert Dean 1780 Views Austin Texas Musicians, Bill Callahan, Carver Center, Cornel West, Far Out Lounge, music news, Natasha Harper Madison, roundtable, State of the Music Industry

Local nonprofit Austin Texas Musicians threw the event, entitled, “The State of the Music Industry”: A Roundtable with Dr. Cornel West which was moderated by the org’s Advocacy & Education Manager Sarah Hall; this roundtable included folks from the scene, including Ray Price, who is on the board of directors and heads the free Notes for Notes recording studio which gives kids interested in music a chance to explore their interests. Also involved were Pedro Carvalho, owner of the Far Out Lounge, Courtney Santana, singer and CEO of domestic violence resource Survive2Thrive, along with Sharon Mays, chief of staff for Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison

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