The Soft Moon

LEVITATION (fka Austin Psych Fest), one of the best festival lineups of 2015, is now less than a month away. Happening May 8-10, 2015, the 8th annual festival will feature performances by the 13th Floor Elevators (50 year anniversary reunion), The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, The Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, Mac Demarco, and many more...

Luis Vasquez is releasing his third album as The Soft Moon on March 31 via Captured Tracks. You can check out its first single, "Black," at the bottom of the post, along with a Trentemøller remix of the same track...

Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Austin Psych Fest is returning for its eighth year in 2015 from from May 8-10 at the Carson Creek Ranch...

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...

"I think I kind of started making electronic music by accident. It was mostly because I was coming out of the classical world and opera world and I was really interested in writing soundtracks like for movies...

Savages at BV-CMJ 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Last month, SXSW revealed its first round of artists for their 2013 festival, which happens from March 12-17, and now they've revealed a second announcement with way more arti...

Chelsea Light Moving at Sled Island 2012 (more by Zach Pollack) With Sonic Youth's future looking cloudy these days, Thurston Moore has turned some of his attention to his new group, Chelsea Light Moving ...

Deerhunter at Bonnaroo 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Earlier this month, Austin Psych Fest announced that their 2013 festival will go down from April 26 to 28 at TBA location...

Austin Psych Fest, which returns in April 2012, hosted many great bands in late April 2011 at Seaholm Power Plant. We previously posted sets of pictures of Spectrum, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Prefuse 73, Black Ryder and Bass Drum of Death, but now check out belated sets of Cloud Canyon, Beaches, Pontiak, Sleepy Sun, Lumerians, The Fresh & Onlys, Soft Moon, and Lower Heaven (all from the 2nd day of the three day fest), below...