Austin Psych Fest 2013 in Pictures

What an incredible weekend! I had the pleasure of spending the weekend of April 26 with Dwight Smith and the latest addition to our roster, Ttotals, at this year's Austin Psych Fest. Dwight provided stellar food, shelter, and companionship, while Ttotals was selected to play this year's festival and subsequently rocked the riverside Elevation Ampitheatre, turning many heads in the process. 

After their set was over, we took our time meeting lots of awesome people and taking in as much of this year's incredible lineup as we could. It was so great to be able to meet Lee all the way from the UK, who days before had ordered the new Ttotals 7" online. And seeing Spectrum, Black Mountain, Deerhunter, Woodsman, White Fence, Boris, Black Angels, and Goat, to name a few....pretty mind-blowing to say the least. Hope to be back there soon. Enjoy the pictures.

SONIC BOOM AUSTIN PSYCH FEST MIXTAPE FEATURING TTOTALS

Psych rock legend Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom, has put together this mixtape featuring some of the bands playing this year's Austin Psych Fest, and one of the songs from Ttotals new 7-inch (available April 26th) made the cut. Tune in to 75 minutes of aural bliss below...

SOURCE OF YELLOW, COLIN L ORCHESTRA, OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEM AND MORE PLAY THE SILENT BARN THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday Source of Yellow will be playing what some are calling one of the best shows going on in NYC this weekend. The Silent Barn is know for killer shows featuring some of the most compelling acts around, and this one is no different. SOY joins The Colin L Orchestra (mem. USAISAMONSTER), Providence's Olneyville Sound System, Russian Tsarlag, and Bernard Herman. Plus DJ Greg Fox (Guardian Alien, Zs) will also be there spinning tunes throughout the night. Check the poster below...

NASHVILLE'S OUTER BLUES DUO TTOTALS JOINS TWIN LAKES

We are beyond psyched to announce the latest addition to our catalog...a new 7-inch by Nashville’s outer blues duo Ttotals. These guys reached out to us about a year ago, and we were immediately sucked into their dark, brooding twisters of sound, featuring leagues-deep drums and haunting vocals, scorched-earth guitars, and flashes of sampled electronics...a careening vortex performing a muddy dance stomp along the Mississippi Delta as it flings the blues up to the heavens. So we invited them to play our showcase at the STPP Music Fest a few months later, and they were even better live! The band will be hitting the road in support of Spectrums of Light on April 19, which sees its official release on April 26, the day Brian (guitars/vocals) and Marty (drums/electronics) arrive in Austin, TX to make their first appearance at the always awesome Austin Psych Fest.

Tour dates:

April 19th - Kansas City, KS, Art Closet

April 20th - Denver, CO, Sidewinder

April 21st - Denver, CO, In-store at Wax Trax Records

April 24th - Albuquerque, NM, Gold House

April 25th - Lubbock, TX, TBA

April 26th,27th & 28th - Austin Psych Fest

April 29th - New Orleans, LA, TBA

April 30th - Memphis, TN, Murphy's  

Spectrums of Light was recorded and mixed by Tate Eskew at Zero Art Studios and mastered by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum) at Atlantis Sound in Rugby, England. It will be available in both vinyl (limited to 300) and digital formats from our website and most online stores on April 26, 2013. But you can listen to it and pre-order it right now over here. Then check out their previous releases over on the Ttotals Bandcamp page. Here they are perfoming a song off their 2012 self-released Silver on Black 10".

DWIGHT SMITH ON BALCONY TV

Dwight was asked to perform on a recent Austin edition of BalconyTV. Watch him perform "Blue Ghost"...