Austin 2015 Psych Fest Lineup Announced: Levitation event features an epic lineup.

The official 2015 lineup for Austin’s annual Psych Fest, featuring the best in trippy guitar fuzz goodness has just been announced and it is massively impressive.

The Flaming Lips will be headlining the event (which is being dubbed /renamed Levitation 2015), and other artists of note include noise-rock icons Jesus and Mary Chain, and rock-electronica iconoclasts Primal Scream (who were originally scheduled to play in 2014), space rockers Spiritualized, Austin metal act The Sword, Tame Impala, and The Black Angels.

Other artists of note include The Black Ryder, The Blank Tapes, Indian Jewelry and Night Beats. Thee Oh Sees, Mac DeMarco, Lightning Bolt, A Place to Bury Strangers, Ty Segall’s FUZZ, The Sword, Earth, Melody’s Echo Chamber, METZ, White Fence, The Soft Moon, Rose Windows, Nothing, and Fat White Family.

Click here to view the developing 2015 Austin Psych-Fest lineup.

This will be the first Austin appearance for the Jesus and Mary Chain in Austin, TX since their 2012 SXSW Showcase gig, and on the heels of their well received 2014 Psychocandy tour, where they’ve played their inaugural album from front to back.They’ll also be performing that seminal 1985 album in its entirety for the festival.

Also noteworthy is that Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie was the original drummer for JAMC, so one wonders if there will be any cross-pollination. Both groups were originally on the British Alternative label Creation Records. 

Austin’s Psych-Fest Levitation 2015, and will take place May 8th-10th at Carson Creek Ranch in Austin, TX. Early tickets can be purchased by clicking here.