Psychedelic bands

Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

• King Gizzard and the Lizard WizardPrimavera Sound · Jun 2027Melbourne's restless psych collective, five albums a year at their peak, swerving from microtonal garage rock to thrash to synth jams and rarely playing the same set twice.
• Tame ImpalaCoachella · Apr 2027Kevin Parker's Perth psych project, written and played almost entirely alone in the studio then rebuilt on stage as a five-piece under a wall of lasers.
• Lil YachtyCorona Capital · Nov 2026Atlanta's shape shifter, from bubblegum trap to a full psych rock detour, and never quite where you last left him.
• Post AnimalTreefort · Mar 2027Chicago band where every member writes and sings, swinging between psych rock, guitar indie, folk and synth-pop; the latest album is IRON.
• SqwervWhippersnap · Feb 2027Denver four-piece playing psych rock built for improvisation, anywhere from two-minute love songs to twelve-minute prog epics.
• Frankie and the Witch FingersKilby Block Party · May 2027LA psych-punk perpetual motion machine with relentless krautrock grooves and fuzz freakouts that never let the tempo sag.
• Allah-LasUnder the Big Sky · Jul 2027Los Angeles record-store clerks turned reverb evangelists, with sun-bleached jangle and surf-edged garage psych that sounds recorded in 1966 and mixed somewhere near the Pacific.
• Dope LemonCorona Capital · Nov 2026Angus Stone's hazy side project: slacker psych for a very late afternoon, all languid grooves and heavy-lidded charm.
• Neal FrancisWhippersnap · Feb 2027Chicago pianist and singer making analog '70s rock with New Orleans funk in its bones, heavy riffs over dance grooves and no programming in sight.
• ROARCorona Capital · Nov 2026Owen Evans's one-man psych pop project out of Phoenix, whimsical and just slightly cracked.
• Vanishing TwinBig Ears · Apr 2027London group around Cathy Lucas, drawing on library music and exotica with multilingual vocals over motorik grooves.
• JD Pinkus TriptychBig Ears · Apr 2027Project led by Butthole Surfers bassist JD Pinkus, who has spent his solo years dragging the banjo into heavy, warped psychedelia.
• KhruangbinEstéreo Picnic · Mar 2027Houston trio built on Laura Lee's bass and Mark Speer's reverb-soaked guitar, mostly instrumental, drawing on Thai funk, dub and surf records.
• RaktaLollapalooza Brasil · Mar 2027São Paulo trio steering post-punk toward psych rock and experimental electronics, with heavy bass and voices soaked in effects.
• Robert Lester FolsomTreefort · Mar 2027Florida songwriter whose self-released 1976 album Music and Dreams became a collector's legend and returned as a 50th anniversary double LP.
• Seu Pereira e Coletivo 401Lollapalooza Brasil · Mar 2027João Pessoa band named for a city bus route, mixing brega and Northeastern sounds with 1960s psychedelic rock and touches of jazz.
• Portugal. The ManOn tour · 30 datesAlaskan psych-rockers who backed into a global pop hit and kept the weirdness in the live set anyway, with 'Feel It Still' plus deep-catalog detours.
• The Flaming LipsOn tour · 10 datesConfetti cannons, giant balloons, and Wayne Coyne's cracked falsetto: a live show engineered as a sensory event, 'Do You Realize??' as the group hug.
• Tash SultanaOn tour · 5 datesA one-person band who builds whole songs live from loops: guitar, beatbox, trumpet, all stacked in front of you.
• Karina RykmanOn tour · 3 datesA bassist-bandleader playing exploratory rock with the grin of someone who cannot believe this is the job, and a jam-scene favorite on pure charisma and chops.
• Ty SegallOn tour · 2 datesGarage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
• My Morning JacketOn tour · 1 dateJim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried, with jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
• White DenimOn tour · 1 dateAustin's virtuosic boogie machine, with prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
• Common SaintsOn tour · 1 dateLondon psych-soul project trading in warm, weightless songwriting, with hazy guitars over a rhythm section that keeps one foot in the sixties.

On tour now

22 Psychedelic bands with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

• Common SaintsNext: Nov 12 · London, GB1 date →
• Post AnimalNext: Nov 14 · Minneapolis, MN15 dates →
• SqwervNext: Nov 14 · St. Louis, MO6 dates →
• Psychedelic Porn CrumpetsNext: Nov 16 · Wien, AT1 date →
• Dope LemonNext: Nov 20 · México, CDMX2 dates →
• Lil YachtyNext: Nov 20 · México, CDMX3 dates →
• ROARNext: Nov 20 · México, CDMX2 dates →
• Frankie and the Witch FingersNext: Nov 21 · La Seyne Sur Mer, 835 dates →
• Karina RykmanNext: Nov 21 · Denver, CO3 dates →
• Portugal. The ManNext: Nov 21 · Praha 7, CZ30 dates →
• White DenimNext: Dec 12 · Austin, TX1 date →
• Neal FrancisNext: Dec 31 · Denver, CO2 dates →
• The Flaming LipsNext: Jan 22 · Nashville, TN10 dates →
• Ty SegallNext: Jan 29 · San Francisco, CA2 dates →
• Vanishing TwinNext: Feb 7 · København V, DK1 date →
• FORAGERNext: Feb 13 · New York, NY1 date →
• Tash SultanaNext: Mar 16 · Merksem (Antwerpen), BE5 dates →
• Allah-LasNext: May 25 · Leeds, GB3 dates →
• Super Furry AnimalsNext: May 27 · South Derbyshire, GB1 date →
• Tame ImpalaNext: May 28 · Manchester, GB10 dates →
• King Gizzard and the Lizard WizardNext: Jun 9 · Caluire Et Cuire, 6919 dates →
• My Morning JacketNext: Jul 1 · Milwaukee, WI1 date →

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Psychedelic bands on the bill, soonest first. The Psychedelic festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

• Corona Capital 2026November 20–22, 2026 · Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, MexicoLil Yachty, Dope Lemon, ROAR
• Whippersnap 2027February 17–20, 2027 · Brooksville, FLSqwerv, Neal Francis
• Lollapalooza Brasil 2027March 19–21, 2027 · Autódromo de Interlagos, São Paulo, BrazilRakta, Seu Pereira e Coletivo 401
• Estéreo Picnic 2027March 19–21, 2027 · Parque Metropolitano Simón Bolívar, Bogotá, ColombiaKhruangbin
• Treefort 2027March 31 – April 4, 2027 · Boise, IDPost Animal, Robert Lester Folsom
• Big Ears 2027April 1–4, 2027 · Downtown Knoxville, TNVanishing Twin, JD Pinkus Triptych
• Coachella 2027April 9–18, 2027 · Empire Polo Club, Indio, CATame Impala
• Kilby Block Party 2027May 14–16, 2027 · Utah State Fairpark, Salt Lake City, UTLil Yachty, Frankie and the Witch Fingers
• Primavera Sound 2027June 2–6, 2027 · Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona, SpainKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• Best Kept Secret 2027June 11–13, 2027 · Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek, NetherlandsKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• Rock Werchter 2027July 1–4, 2027 · Festivalpark, Werchter, BelgiumTame Impala
• Under the Big Sky 2027July 16–18, 2027 · Whitefish, MTAllah-Las

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

1. 1My Morning Jacket2Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried, with jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
2. 2Tame Impala2Kevin Parker's Perth psych project, written and played almost entirely alone in the studio then rebuilt on stage as a five-piece under a wall of lasers.
3. 3Ty Segall2Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

1. 1Djo6Joe Keery's psych-pop project has vocoders, fuzz, and a genuine ear for a Tame Impala-shaped hook, and is well past the celebrity-side-project stage.
2. 2My Morning Jacket3Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried, with jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
3. 3Tash Sultana3A one-person band who builds whole songs live from loops: guitar, beatbox, trumpet, all stacked in front of you.
4. 4Allah-Las2Los Angeles record-store clerks turned reverb evangelists, with sun-bleached jangle and surf-edged garage psych that sounds recorded in 1966 and mixed somewhere near the Pacific.
5. 5Dope Lemon2Angus Stone's hazy side project: slacker psych for a very late afternoon, all languid grooves and heavy-lidded charm.
6. 6Frankie and the Witch Fingers2LA psych-punk perpetual motion machine with relentless krautrock grooves and fuzz freakouts that never let the tempo sag.
7. 7King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard2Melbourne's restless psych collective, five albums a year at their peak, swerving from microtonal garage rock to thrash to synth jams and rarely playing the same set twice.
8. 8Les Big Byrd2Motorik repetition with a psych haze on top, from a Swedish band that understands the value of staying on one chord for an uncomfortably long time.
9. 9Lil Yachty2Atlanta's shape shifter, from bubblegum trap to a full psych rock detour, and never quite where you last left him.
10. 10Melody's Echo Chamber2Melody Prochet's French psych-pop, layered and slightly disorienting in the best way, with kaleidoscope production around featherweight melodies.

Most saved to a plan

The Psychedelic bands people are building a Saturday around.

1. 1The Beta BandScotland's beloved kitchen-sink psychedelicists, reunited: 'Dry the Rain' at last, and the High Fidelity scene made flesh.
2. 2ShagwüfFierce Virginia DIY power trio with psych-rock, '60s power pop, and fuzzed-out metal welded into something uncompromising and loud.
3. 3Ulrika SpacekReverb-drenched art-rock with two guitars arguing beautifully, motorik patience under the haze, built for repeat listens.
4. 4FORAGERBrooklyn trio of intricate guitars, melismatic vocals, and shapeshifting grooves, "buttery" and "complex" per NPR, with jazz-school chops loosened into something warm and strange.
5. 5MemorialsVerity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire) make hypnotic motorik art-rock with woodwinds, synths, and film-score strangeness, pedigree put to genuinely new use.
6. 6My Morning JacketJim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried, with jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
7. 7Portugal. The ManAlaskan psych-rockers who backed into a global pop hit and kept the weirdness in the live set anyway, with 'Feel It Still' plus deep-catalog detours.
8. 8Dope LemonAngus Stone's hazy side project: slacker psych for a very late afternoon, all languid grooves and heavy-lidded charm.
9. 9Peach Candy Nut BoysBoone psych-rockers raised on weird riffs and complex harmony, basement-born, self-recorded, and gleefully energetic live, mountain-town psych with real chops.
10. 10SpacemothMaryam Qudus's tape-warped psych project, with sci-fi synths and spring-loaded pop songs that wobble like old film, studio-scientist craft throughout.

All 47 Psychedelic bands

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.