Austin Texas' swirling and lustrous psych-punk unravellers, Rayon Beach were captured recently at their hometown's best live venue, Beerland for a mind-warping live experience as evidenced by these incredibly fried photos. With their debut 12" EP on HoZac already well into its second pressing and heads turning in their direction from all over the place, it seemed only natural for these seething soldiers of sonic slime to take on their wanderlust and embark on their first official tour this summer. Tearing off the heads of anyone ballsy enough to witness their in-person degradation of aural atrocity, Rayon Beach have writhed up through the carcasses of their lysergically-preserved forefathers to emerge as another classic Texas psychedelic monstrosity, poised to cauterize and decapitate with the utmost finesse.
So if your bag consists of the same animalistic attraction and morbid curiosity as these black-bleeding brothers of the deranged mind set, do anything you can to catch them outside of their home state of Texas throughout the South and East Coast and back up through the Midwest next month. And if you just can't resist the head-rattling state of affairs that comes from the side project, Cryptic Scissor (featuring Andy from Woven Bones and Tom from Rayon Beach), don't sleep on subscribing to the HoZac Hookup Klub before it's too late, featuring the debut 7" by Cryptic Scissor, a Kraut-fried space trip straight into your inner skull, coming soon.
8/6 The Mink - Houston, TX w/ The Wiggins
8/7 New Orleans- (should end up being at Saturn Bar w/ The Bellys and Jean-Eric)
8/8 Cat's Putting Teen Wing - Oxford, MS w/ Flight or Dead Gaze
8/9 Voodoo Lounge - Huntsville, AL
8/10 529 - Atlanta, GA
8/11 House show in Durham NC or Roanoke w/ Eternal Summers
8/12 Golden West - Baltimore, MD w/ Eternal Summers
8/13 The Ox (tba) - Philadelphia, PA w/ Girls at Dawn, Reading Rainbow
8/14 Bruar Falls - Brooklyn, NY w/ Girls at Dawn
8/15 Death by Audio, NYC
8/16 Pittsburgh (tba)
8/17 Carabar - Columbus, OH w/ Outer Spacist, Estrogen Highs
8/18 Detroit or Kalamazoo (tba)
8/19 Crown Liquors - Chicago, IL
8/20 Black Sparrow - Lafayette, IN w/ Perennials
8/21 Nashville TN- (tba)
8/22 The Exchange - Hot Springs, AR
8/23 The Nightmare- Dallas, TX
Check out a video of Rayon Beach performing live at Trailer Space Records in March 2010, right here: