Best New Bands » The Growlers http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Best New Bands from Austin Psych Fest: The Growlers http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-from-austin-psych-fest-the-growlers/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-from-austin-psych-fest-the-growlers/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:44:55 +0000 Hearing the phrase “Austin Psych Fest” might generate images in your mind of tie-dye wearing or hula-hoop dancing folks longing for the age of Woodstock. While a few attendees could be pigeon-holed as such, the festival draw was much more defined by its members’ affected stillness. Heels tapped and people swayed, but jumping and dancing

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-from-austin-psych-fest-the-growlers/feed/ 3 More Austin Psych Fest: We Don’t Ever Want To Leave http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-austin-psych-fest-we-don-t-ever-want-to-leave/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-austin-psych-fest-we-don-t-ever-want-to-leave/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:02:13 +0000 What can’t be said of Austin Psych Fest? It’s clear this outing of psychedelic proportions is of its own world – a world that inhabits creatures of color, of sound, of intellectual properties, and spew tag lines like get-me-another-expletive-beer/swig/toke while I bask in this Austin sun. Day two brought the rain – a monsoon that

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