On Friday, this NYC reporter will be flying down to Austin early in the morning to take in the amazing sights and sounds of the 6th-annual Austin Psych Fest . Having gone to last year's APF, I knew I couldn't miss this year's celebration of some of the best psychedelic music being made today...and yesterday. Here's a little background from Austin Psych Fest's website: "Austin Psych Fest was founded in 2008. Over the years, this independent festival has grown from a small word-of-mouth event to an internationally acclaimed, full weekend event that attracts attendees from [...]
GRAPHICS BY SARAH HEINEMANN Festival season is upon us, and it's time for my favorite one of them all, Austin Psych Fest. It's still a relative baby, only in it's sixth year, but boasts a line-up that proves it's here to stay. For the first time, the event is moving out of a traditional venue and into the great outdoors - Carson Creek Ranch to be exact. They now offer weekend-long camping, the perfect way to really soak up those psychedelic reverberations. Bands don't start until the afternoon, giving you time to recover each morning before diving [...]
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304) All too frequently, remixes are just okay , but when they are great, they're really something special. A truly great remix can shed new light on the original artist's work and stand on its own as a unique creation. That's no easy feat, either, given the tension between staying true to an original song's components and a reworker's desire to create something new and personal. These days, it feels far too easy to get remix fatigue. Reworkings seem to pop up almost immediately after [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the March 2012 One Year Ago Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]
Festival NRMAL—the independent, all-ages music festival held annually in Monterrey, Mexico—has announced its full and final lineup. In addition to several up-and-coming Latin American artists, the stacked roster includes Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, DIIV, Fear ... read more
El Festival NRMAL -a celebrarse del 6 al 10 de Marzo- cada vez crece más y se convierte en el evento al que se debe ir si se desea ver actos diferentes que valen la pena por mucho. Incluye una diversa gama de géneros y artistas internacionales repartidos en cuatro días y en distintos escenarios al aire libre en el Parque del Ferrocarril de Monterrey. El día de hoy se anunciaron más artistas que se han unido a este cartel y que no deben perderse: -Laurel Halo (Brooklyn, EUA) [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Scrape It Off (mp3) by Yvette [d/l the EMPIRE OF FUZZ compilation @ explodinginsound.bandcamp.com ] I've Got a Wild Feeling (mp3) by Milk Music [...]
Austin Psych Fest , the undisputed epicenter of post-millennial psychedelic rock, is excited to announce several releases slated for February 12th. The Reverberation Appreciation Society - the official record label of Austin Psych Fest - will release Holy Wave's LP Evil Hits and Elephant Stone's self-titled sophomore LP. Additionally, they will release the Austin Psych Fest 2012 DVD, featuring live footage from The Black Angels, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Thee Oh Sees and many more. In time for these releases, The Reverberation Appreciation Society is thrilled to announce a partnership with The Orchard, who will provide distribution for these and [...]
Al Lover’s Official Psych Fest 2013 Mix
As the week comes to a close, we gather up the pros and cons with a bit of hope and optimism despite the odds. Chief Keef's gun range Pitchfork interview cost him 2 months in juvie for violating probation while Meyhem Lauren struck back at the 'fork with the diss track, "The Laurenovich Angle (Fuck Pitchfork)". While word has it that Lil B will not be performing at the Grammys, the legions of Radiohead fans can hear unreleased material Thom Yorke dropped via Dazed Digital while...
Al Lover is back at it, churning out yet another quality remix. This time, he gives us his take on "Fuzz's Fourth Dream", the b-side on the 7-inch released by Fuzz , the new project from Ty Segall and Charles Moothart. The track is a slo-mo, head-bobbin', bass-heavy drone that matches the original's intensity, although it's a little bit less Sabbath and little bit more Trent Reznor and Karen O doing "Immigrant Song". Lover hinted at the subject of the remix on Twitter a day before officially dropping it on the Interwebs: [...]
Psychedelic alchemist Al Lover has been very busy lately. Yesterday we shared his Official Austin Psych Fest 2013 Mix, today he's got a remix of a cut from Suicide's 1997 S/T debut LP Ghost Rider . He put it on his SoundCloud page with the following commentary "I've wanted to do something with this track for a while. One of the best punk songs of all time... ruined." We agree with the former and disagree with the later. What do you think? Suicide; Ghost Rider [...]
Now this is what you call a stacked line-up: Night Beats , The Mallard , Cool Ghouls , and The Woolen Men , all playing together at Brick & Mortar this Friday night. It promises to be a seriously psych-rockin' good time. Plus, my man Al Lover will be DJing between sets, so you know shit will be gettin' trippy, with no let up. And we want to send you and a [...]
![[Listen] Suicide: "Ghost Rider" (Al Lover Remix)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4670992_lg.jpg)
El debut homónimo de Suicide es uno de mis discos favoritos de todos los tiempos, y esto puede que no sea una sorpresa para nadie, así que si algunos de ustedes aún no han tenido la oportunidad de escuchar este material, realmente se los recomiendo demasiado, porque basta decir que Alan Vega y Martin Rev estaban bien pinches adelantados a su epoca, y en una de esas... Aún lo están. Pero bueno, "Ghost Rider" es uno de los tracks que mas se ha destacado de todo el catálogo de Suicide, ya que incluso hace dos años M.I.A. [...]
Al Lover has put together the Official Austin Psych Fest 2013 mix featuring songs from all 26 bands in the first round of announced participants. You can stream it, download it, and check the tracklist below. "Get trippy..." Track Listing 1. Intro 2. Acid Mothers Temple - Chakra 24 3. Spectrum - How you Satisfy Me 4. The Soft Moon - Alive 5. Lumerians - Black Tusk 6. White Fence - It Will Never [...]
This will undoubtedly gain me a few haters, but the emptiness of Suicide's recordings bothers me. Why can't it be louder? It does not need to be bombastic. I don't demand extravagent crescendos or cock-rock riffing atop their industrial grind. I just want the mix turned up, way the fugg up. Al Lover is the homie. He's been the homie for some time, in music and in knocking back cheap beer. Without prompting him, he's zeroed in on the aspect of Suicide that's stung me and ...
A favorite of The Bay Bridged, San Francisco's Al Lover is back with a jaw-dropping remix of Nick Waterhouse 's rhythm and blues masterpiece "That Place". According to Lover, the two met a couple years ago at Rooky Ricardo's Records in the Lower Haight, and their friendship quickly led to discussions of remixing one of Waterhouse's tracks. Eventually, he chose "That Place", the b-side to Waterhouse's 2010 debut single "Some Place". Lover tells us, "I pitched down the saxophone and combined layers of crunchy breaks [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Brass Knuckles (mp3) by Personal and the Pizzas [d/l LIve on WFMU's Cherry Blossom Clinic @ freemusicarchive.org ] Friday Night (mp3) by Spider Bags [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the October 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]
Moon Block Party is throwing their first San Francisco event at Brick and Mortar Music Hall next weekend (10/13/12) with Sleepy Sun , JUJU (LA) and Glitter Wizard and Al Lover & the Haters . In addition to live music and DJ sets from Al Lover, there will be an art show adorning the club curated by local zine Sioux Magazine . If the name "Moon Block Party" doesn't ring a bell, but sounds pretty intriguing, [...]
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