Joining this year’s subsonic trip are The Black Angels (USA). Through their impeccable musical output over the past 12 years and their annual psych-Mecca gathering in Austin, Texas, The Black Angels have reignited the psychedelic flame for the PZYK generation. Also joining up will be Songhoy Blues: hailing from the town of Gao in north-eastern Mali, Songhoy Blues came together in Bamako naming themselves in celebration of their displaced Songhoy people and culture. Their debut album, Music In Exile, produced by Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was released to widespread acclaim in February 2015 with feverish enthusiasm for their rare UK live shows.

Elsewhere are psychedelic trailblazers Loop, former Stereolab front-woman Laetitia Sadier and much evangelised dub industrialist Adrian Sherwood, as well as returning PZYK stars Wolf People (of storied US label Jagjaguwar) and Californian doom-troupe White Manna. The Mercury-nominated jazz/psych/electronic meanderings of The Comet Is Coming add another flavour to the bill, as do Parisian duo Acid Arab and gorgeous, neo-psychedelic adventurers Julie’s Haircut.

There will be further swathe of artists – including additional headliners – announced in the coming months; but head to liverpoolpsychfest.com now to read up on the PZYK 2017 Congregation thus far. 

Weekend tickets for Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2017 will go on general sale at 10am on Friday 3 March, priced at £80. Tickets will be available through liverpoolpsychfest.com

Unpresidented Jams is a benefit compilation for the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center from Audio Antihero Records. Featuring a heap of recordings (many exclusive) from artists like Jeffrey Lewis, Yr Friends, Pearl Crush, Mulligrub, Okin Osan, Betsy Ross, Magana, Vassals, Fridge Poetry, Cloud, Benjamin Shaw and more. This nineteen track compilation is available for a low minimum donation of £2.99 so that hopefully everyone can afford it but anybody who can dig a little deeper is encouraged to do so.

Listen and download here

Track List:

Fridge Poetry - “Still Pills” (feat. Emmalee Lovelace)

Betsy Ross - “Jean”

Jeffrey Lewis - “Dictator Seeks Reichstag Fire”

Deerful - “Unlearn/Begin Again”

Cloud - “Moonlight” (Piano Version)

Magana - “To Be the Same”

I Hate Sex - “Sleep Paralysis”

Pearl Crush - “Can’t Hide It”

Yr Friends - “I Got Nothing”

CHUCK - “Nothing Matters to Me Now”

Okin Osan - “Sunday Girl” (Blondie cover)

Benjamin Shaw - “Hole”

Mulligrub - “Little Fist”

Pip Hall - “Calling"

Alex Chilltown - “Words” (Low cover)

Tom from Frog - “Bill”

Hanging Freud - “Motherland”

Vassals - “JC Sci” (Demo)

Jack Hayter - The New Colossus