Weekend Festival Madness (Pt. 2): End Hip End It Brings Psych to Old Town Spring

And here we are, again, with the second of this weekend’s several festivals, this time way up north of town in Old Town Spring. It’s a brand new one called End Hip End It (the joke of which I just got), and unlike most of our local music festivals, it’s actually got a fairly narrow focus, lasering in on all musical subgenres psychedelic.

Now, the bad part is that because I’m a stupid-ass slacker, the show’s already been going for a few hours now (it started at 11AM, I believe), but dammit, if you are a fan of psych rock, doom metal, stoner rock, sludge rock, garage-psych, or anything else in that realm, you should still get your ass on up to Spring.

There’s a whole bunch of excellent people playing, from cool headliners like Ghostland Observatory and Ruby The Hatchet (the latter of whom I’ve only heard of, I must confess, but I’ve heard good things) on down to excellent local folks like Doomstress and Mikey & the Drags (both of whom I just now saw have already played; fuck…).

I’m particularly psyched (ba-dm-ch!) to see excellent retro-psych guys Radio Moscow, swamp-metal heroes Black Tusk, whom I’ve seen and been seriously impressed by, trippy, Afrobeat-gone-spacerock Golden Dawn Arkestra (and yeah, you can guess there’s a Sun Ra influence going on there), H-town’s own old-school metal dudes {Venomous Maximus}, Austin fuzz-rockers Amplified Heat, and Northside Americana/roots-rock band {Folk Family Revival} on the bill. Oh, and I can’t leave off {Funeral Horse}, {Chase Hamblin}, {Muddy Belle}, {Los Skarnales}, & A Tribute to the Sun, since I’m talking about local folks.

Plus, there’re a bunch of folks I’ve been wanting to check out more, namely Night Beats and Beware of Darkness, both of whom I’ve liked in small doses so far but who I have yet to seriously get into… The full lineup is here, for those who feel like checking.

On top of all that other stuff, there’re also vendors, a Halloween costume contest, food trucks, live art shows, charity auctions, beer tastings, and a bunch of other stuff. And, of course, we’re talking about a music festival in Old Town Spring, which is neat in and of itself. All together, it looks like a good damn time.

Remember: I may be late, but you’re not, so get on the road now…