Highlighted their headlining spot at this year’s Grim Reefer Fest in Baltimore and the Rocks Off Concert Cruise boat show they’ll do in NYC — or at least on the river — the upcoming Weedeater East Coast US tour also sees the North Carolinian sludge stalwarts re-teaming with Midwestern riff-chargers Telekinetic Yeti and picking up Heavy Temple, Left Lane Cruiser and Restless Spirit each for a few dates along the way. The former two, Heavy Temple and Left Lane Cruiser, have new records en route to release and Restless Spirit just put out their third LP this past Fall, so if you go, expect to hit the merch table. Probably a good policy, anyhow.

With steady touring a couple times a year and a now nine-year stretch without a studio full-length, am I crazy for thinking maybe a Weedeater live album wouldn’t be the worst idea? Yeah, they’re raw live, but they’re raw on-record too, and at least they’d have something new for the aforementioned merch table. It’s not like they suck. If they sucked, I’d get it.

In any case, the tour precedes stops later in May at Mutants of the Monster (Mutants Fest), which is in Arkansas, and Modified Ghost Festival, which is in Vancouver two days later. That should be a fun bit of continent crossing during that day between. As ever, safe travels to Weedeater, and a special thanks to the PR wire for the weed puns and the sneaky Cathedral reference in the tour announcement below:

WEEDEATER Announce US Tour

Get tickets: https://tonedeaftouring.com/weedeater

Roll up a fat one, because Weedeater are ready to ride another rip-roaring high. The sludge-stoned tar heels are chasing the dragon up and down the East Coast this spring. Along the way, they’ll be throwing wizard fights aboard the Rocks Off Concert Cruise and chunking $20 peanuts at Grim Reefer Fest.

Joining as main support on all 15 days of this excellent adventure are the Iowa stoners in Telekinetic Yeti. Purveyors of fifth dimensional riffs Heavy Temple will open the first leg. Next up are bonafide blues rockers Left Lane Cruiser, followed by badass doomsayers Restless Spirit.

Get tickets: http://tonedeaftouring.com/weedeater

Tour dates
04/16 Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor*
04/17 Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana*
04/18 York, PA @ Skid Row Garage*
04/19 Youngstown, OH @ West Side Bowl
04/20 Asheville, NC @ Eulogy
04/23 New York, NY @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
04/24 Portland, ME @ Geno’s Rock Club#
04/25 Manchester, NH @ Jewel#
04/26 Newark, NJ @ QXT’s#
04/27 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar – Grim Reefer Fest#
04/29 Chesapeake, VA @ Riffhouse^
05/01 Panama City Beach, FL @ Mosey’s^
05/02 Cape Coral, FL @ Nice Guys’^
05/03 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar^
05/04 Augusta, GA @ Grantski Records^
* Heavy Temple
# Left Lane Cruiser
^ Restless Spirit

Weedeater’s bong will stay locked and loaded long after this tour goes up in smoke. Later in May, the band will bring plenty of god luck and good speed to this year’s Mutants Fest, as well as the seventh coming of Modified Ghosts Festival. More dates coming soon!

Additional Dates
May 17 Little Rock, AR @ Argenta Theater as part of Mutants Fest 2024
May 19 Vancouver, BC as part of Modified Ghost Festival VII

Line-up:
Dixie Dave: Bass, vocals
Shep: Guitar, vocals
Ramzi Ateyeh: Drums

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Weedeater, Goliathan (2015)

I was lucky enough to attend the April 2023 edition of the Baltimorean all-dayer Grim Reefer Fest (review here), which featured Bongzilla as headliners and the likes of Sun Voyager and Holy Fingers, among others. Returning from last year’s bill for 2024 are Haze Mage, who are involved in organizing the fest — fair’s fair — and that’s it so far, though there are still two bands TBA, which tells me there’s probably a tour waiting to be announced or something like that. Sometimes it’s logistics as much as teasing with these lineup reveals.

But with the undebatable Weedeater in the top spot for 2024 backed by the atmospheric heavy rock of Black Lung, Yatra‘s we’re-the-death-metal-band-the-heavyheads-like extremity and Leather Lung‘s sludge metal party, along with High Leaf coming down from Philly, Foehammer up from VA and Bleak Shore, who just played their first show this past December, the day seems pretty packed even before you get to the two TBAs. It’ll be a fun one if you’re in the neighborhood on April 27, which you might consider being.

The announcement came down the PR wire thusly:

This April we return to the legendary Ottobar in Baltimore on Saturday April 27th for our 5th annual fest, bringing a very full day of the dankest & heaviest riffs around!

This year’s lineup includes:
Weedeater
Black Lung
Haze Mage
Yatra
Leather Lung
High Leaf
Foehammer
Bleak Shore

Plus we’ve got a couple more to still announce! Stay tuned!

Once again, the amazing Golden Grillz food truck will be parked outside all day and night to take care of all of your munchie needs!

Tickets are now available here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/62386586

Early birds get your tickets now! Prices for tickets go up after March 1st!
More details at GrimReeferFest.com

Poster by John DeCampos aka @ghost_bat_

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/4LgCZ1iCo

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Sun Voyager, Live at Grim Reefer Fest 2023

Shit, man. Anybody got a line on a crash spot in Little Rock? Mutants of the Monster Fest — or if you’re on friendly terms you can go with Mutants Fest, like on the poster — has announced its initial lineup for May 16-18, with John Garcia as the first headliner. I’m not sure if it’s a solo show or with the full backing as John Garcia and the Band of Gold, but as noted below he’ll be doing Kyuss songs in addition to his own stuff and if the universe aligns just so, you might even get a track from the catalogs of Slo Burn, Unida or Hermano, the latter of whom have reissues out on Ripple now.

But Garcia is just the start and down the line through Weedeater and Telekinetic Yeti (tour partners again?), Spirit Adrift, Deadbird, Fistula, Rebelmatic, Flummox, Medicine Horse, Seahag and Adam Faucett, and the sense of curation remains strong. Mammoth Caravan will have a new record out by the time they play, and they might not be the only ones, but even if everyone showed up with nothing on the merch table (highly unlikely), it’d still be a riotous bill and there’s more to come since, you know, three days and all that.

Tickets are available through Last Chance Records as linked below. I’ll do my best to keep up are more names are added to Mutants of the Monster 2024. Here’s how the PR wire put it:

MUTANTS OF THE MONSTER FEST 2024 Reveals First Wave of Bands; Incl. John Garcia (ex-Kyuss), Weedeater, Telekinetic Yeti, Spirit Adrift + More!

Taking place in North Little Rock, AR at the Argenta Community Theater and Four Quarter Bar from May 16-18!

GET EARLY BIRD TICKETS HERE: https://www.lastchancerecords.com/

MUTANTS OF THE MONSTER FEST will return in 2024 to Little Rock, AR from May 16-18! The multi-day festival will take place in the Argenta Arts District and has revealed the first wave of bands, which is as follows:

JOHN GARCIA (Formerly of Kyuss playing all of the hits!)
WEEDEATER
SPIRIT ADRIFT
FISTULA
DEADBIRD
TELEKINETIC YETI
DEEPSTARIA ENIGMATICA
MEDICINE HORSE
ADAM FAUCETT
REBELMATIC
FLUMMOX
WHETHER
SEAHAG
OROROR
CRANKBAIT
MAMMOTH CARAVAN
SPORTS
DIREWOLF

Early bird tickets are now available HERE starting today through Monday, December 11. The pass will cover both stages for all three days of the event.

More bands will be announced soon – stay tuned!

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John Garcia, “Whitewater” (Kyuss) live at Desertfest New York 2022

In honor of the fact that Weedeater tour like bastards, I mean, they just go and go and go, I decided I would take the last tour announcement I put up — it covered from February to May of this year — and copy the post to remake it here. Drop in the new text and see what happened. Did I save myself any time? Nah. The images still needed to be placed and then I decided to chase down the Instagram links for the band and the label because, well, relevance, but yeah, no time saved. I wasn’t being cheeky or anything, like I would somehow try to make fun of the band for CONTINUING to work hard. I was trying something out, and I learned a thing.

I also learned about the Slower and Harder Fest that Weedeater are playing on this upcoming East Coast/Midwest stint, alongside appearances at Burque Rock City, RPM Fest and Full Terror Assault Fest. I hadn’t heard about it, because I guess I don’t hear about everything because frankly I’ve never been that cool, but the lineup is right on, with Weedeater (duh), Bongripper, Portrayal of Guilt, Dorthia Cottrell and a bunch of others. All the ticket links below are active, I hope, and all come from the PR wire.

All glory to the PR wire:

WEEDEATER Rolling Through the Northeast and Midwest

GET TICKETS: https://weedmetal.com/tour.html

WEEDEATER are loaded up and ready to ride.

The sludge-stoned cowboys are blazing the ol’ dusty trail later this summer with 10+ shows across the Northeast and Midwest. Along the way, they’re hitting a couple festivals, including headlining spots at Albuquerque’s Rock City Fest and Slower & Harder Fest in Atlanta.

Joining Weedeater is the grindin’, frashin’ punk rock wrecking machine King Parrot.

God Luck and Good Speed.

Tour dates
08/05 Albuquerque, NM @ Rock City Fest [TICKETS]
08/30 Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor [TICKETS]
08/31 Washington, DC @ Black Cat [TICKETS]
09/01 Brooklyn, NY @ Meadows [TICKETS]
09/02 Montague, MA @ RPM Fest [TICKETS]
09/03 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place [TICKETS]
09/04 Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary [TICKETS]
09/06 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme [TICKETS]
09/07 Cave In Rock, IL @ Full Terror Assault Fest [TICKETS]
09/08 Champaign, IL @ Loose Cobra (On Sale 07/15)
09/10 Atlanta, GA Atlanta Utility Works @ Slower & Harder Fest [TICKETS]
09/11 Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819 [TICKETS]

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Weedeater, Goliathan (2015)

If I’d had a soul, it would’ve wept bitter soul-tears last September at my being unable to attend Monolith on the Mesa 2022 (lineup here, if you’d like a refresher) in Taos, New Mexico. Now, I don’t know what Roman Barham, also of heavy trio Red Mesa, has in store for the first-and-maybe-only installment of Burque Rock City Fest, which moves the proceedings from Taos to Albuquerque and is set to have its inaugural edition take place in early August, but I’m more than willing to trust that by the time he and his crew have their shit together and know what they’re doing, based on past evidence as well as the already well-on-its-way lineup they’ve unveiled for Burque Rock City Fest 2023, highlighted by Belzebong coming over from Poland, Weedeater at the top of the bill (unclear if they’re headlining or just there for now), Matt Pike‘s solo-project, Early Moods, High Desert Queen, Sorcia and Thunder Horse alongside Prism Bitch and Coma Recovery.

It’s two days — Monolith was three last year — and will happen across two venues, neither of which I know anything about more than their name from lists of tour dates. But again, it’s a new fest but familiar parties behind it, so also not a worry. Barham notes in the quote below that Monolith on the Mesa will be back in Taos in 2024, so it’s unclear whether Burque Rock City Fest is a one-time-only placeholder or will be an ongoing second festival. I wouldn’t attempt to guess, but as it’s worth keeping an eye on, that’s what I’m doing. Will continue to do so as the lineup takes shape.

For now, the first announcement and early-bird ticket links, as per the PR wire:

Monolith On The Mesa Presents: Burque Rock City Fest

August 4th & 5th 2023

The Historic El Rey Theater & Insideout Bar in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The first round of bands has been announced…

Weedeater * Pike Vs The Automaton * Belzebong * Early Moods * High Desert Queen * ThunderHorse * Sorcia * Prism Bitch * Coma Recovery

Many More To be Announced!!

Early Bird Day Pass-$100: https://holdmyticket.com/event/412535

Early Bird 2 Day Pass-$200: https://holdmyticket.com/event/412537

Roman Barham, co-founder of Monolith on the Mesa has been quietly working on Burque Rock City Fest.

Barham says:

“Monolith On The Mesa crew would love to thank everyone who helped make Monolith 2022 an awesome fest. Huge thanks from The Taos Mesa Brewery crew, the Hotel Luna Mystica crew and to all the very respectful patrons that came out and made Monolith On The Mesa 2022 an amazing tribute to our fallen brother Dano Sanchez (deceased Monolith co-founder).

We have decided to take a year off from Monolith and bring it back in 2024 to Taos Mesa Brewery.

Branching south from the Monolith On The Mesa tree is Burque Rock City Fest in Albuquerque, NM At The Historic El Rey Theater & Insideout Bar On Friday August 4th & Saturday August 5th 2023.

More band announcements & more exciting info soon.

Cheers!!”

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Weedeater, “Jason… the Dragon” live in Jacksonville, FL, March 1, 2023

You can’t kill Weedeater and you’d be a jackass for trying. The stalwarts of sludge the other day announced a UK run with Mars Red Sky and Telekinetic Yeti along for the trip and now the plot thickens as they add a stint out to and up the West Coast, hitting Heavy Psych Sounds Fest and more before they go. They’re Weedeater. That’s how they do. If you haven’t seen them before, first of all, it’s not too late to correct that oversight and someday it will be, and second, it’s not the band’s fault. Short of Tenacious D-style door to door rocking, they’ve done about as much roadtime as you can do.

Do you wanna take bets on whether or not I’ll mention how long it’s been since they put out a record? I don’t. And if you’d complain they’re not doing the East Coast, they were here in November.

Here’s dates and the ticket link from the PR wire:

WEEDEATER Announces Headlining U.S. Winter Tour

GET TICKETS: https://weedmetal.com/tour.html

Cape Fear metal legends WEEDEATER have announced and extensive headlining tour of the U.S. as well as a U.K. headliner for 2023! The first leg of the U.S. trek will feature special guest Rebelmatic and will run from February 22 to March 3. After a very short break, the second trek will kick off on March 16 with special guests High Tone Son of a Bitch (3/16 – 4/02), Telekinitc Yeti (4/04 – 4/06) & Adam Faucett (supports all dates).

Upon the North American tour’s conclusion on April 8, WEEDEATER will then cross the pond for a UK/Ireland tour with special guests Mars Red Sky & Telekinitic Yeti! The run will kick off on April 30

The full itinerary can be found below! All tickets can be found at THIS LOCATION: https://weedmetal.com/tour.html

WEEDEATER U.S. Tour (w/REBELMATIC):
02/22: Carborro, NC @ The Station
02/23: Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
02/24: Savannah, GA @ Underground Weekend Fest
02/25: Cape Coral, FL @ Nice Guys
02/27: Orlando, FL @ Wills Pub
02/28: Melbourne, FL @ Pineapples
03/01: Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
03/02: Piedmont, SC @ Tribbles
03/03: Asheville, NC @ Asheville Music Hall

WEEDEATER U.S. w/ Adam Faucett (all dates), High Tone Son of a Bitch (3/16 – 4/02), Telekinetic Yeti (4/04 – 4/06):
03/16: Charleston, SC @ Trolley Pub
03/17: Atlanta, GA @ Sabbath Brewing
03/18: New Orleans, LA @ Poor Boys
03/19: Little Rock, AR @ Whitewater Tavern
03/20: Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
03/22: Mesa, AR @ Nile Theatre
03/23: San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
03/25: Joshua Tree, CA @ Heavy Psych Sounds Fest
03/26: San Francisco, CA @ Heavy Psych Sounds Fest
03/27: Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial
03/29: Portland, OR @ Bossanova Ballroom
03/30: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
03/31: Boise, ID @ Shredder
04/01: Salt Lake City, UT @ Aces High Saloon
04/02: Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
04/04: Sioux Falls, SD @ Icon
04/05: Rock Island, IL @ Wake Brewing
04/06: Chicago, IL @ Reggies
04/07: Murfreesboro, TN @ Hop Springs
04/08: Knoxville, TN @ Brickyard

WEEDEATER UK & Ireland Tour (w/special guests Mars Red Sky & Telekinetic Yeti):
04/30: Bournemouth (UK) @ The Bearcave
05/01: Cardiff (UK) @ The Globe
05/02: Dublin (IE) @ Grand Social
05/03: Glasgow (UK) @ Cathouse
05/04: Sheffield (UK) @ Corporation
05/05: Manchester (UK) @ Factory 251

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Weedeater, Goliathan (2015)

Park myself in Joshua Tree for a weekend just as the winter is turning to spring, catch a ton of awesome bands from and beyond the desert? Yeah, that sounds pretty magical, to be honest. Nothing against San Francisco. I’ve seen videos from outside at Thee Parkside and it looks like an incredible place to see a gig, but if I’m making the trip from the other side of the country — and unless there’s a sudden fiscal windfall in my favor, I’m not, sadly — it’s the desert calling, all the more with All Souls and BigPig and Third Ear Experience on that bill. That’s a memorable weekend in the making.

The 2023 lineups for Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in California are finished, and with the two posters next to each other you can see some of the differences from one to the other, but they’re mostly the same as artists will play in one city one night, the other the other, and as someone who remembers seeing Yawning Man and Fatso Jetson together a decade ago at Desertfest London 2013 (review here), I’d offer up a kidney to do so again if I thought I could be healed in time to actually enjoy the show in March.

Anybody want to buy some… shit I have nothing of value. Alright then.

Here’s the bill:

Heavy Psych Sounds Records & Booking is proud to announce *** HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST CALIFORNIA 2023 JOSHUA TREE & SAN FRANCISCO ***

full lineup announcement

Heavy Psych Sounds together with Plastic Cactus Productions and Subliminal SF presents the full lineup of the Heavy Psych Sounds Fest California 2023 !!!

HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST ***CALIFORNIA 2023***
MARCH 25 & 26

SAN FRANCISCO @ OPEN AIR AT THEE PARKSIDE

JOSHUA TREE @ HI DESERT CULTURAL CENTER

JOSHUA TREE
HI DESERT CULTURAL CENTER
MARCH 25th and 26th

WINDHAND
WEEDEATER
BRANT BJORK
NEBULA
THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX
YAWNING MAN
FATSO JETSON
DUEL
HIPPIE DEATH CULT
GEEZER
KADABRA
WARLUNG
LOVE GANG
WITCHPIT
COSMIC REAPER
ALL SOULS
BIG PIG
THIRD EAR EXPERIENCE
DEATHCHANT
WHISKEY AND KNIVES
HIGH TONE SON OF A BITCH

SAN FRANCISCO
OPEN AIR AT THEE PARKSIDE
MARCH 25th and 26th

WINDHAND
WEEDEATER
MONDO GENERATOR
NEBULA
THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX
DUEL
HIPPIE DEATH CULT
GEEZER
KADABRA
WARLUNG
LOVE GANG
COSMIC REAPER
WITCHPIT
DEATHCHANT
HIGH TONE SON OF A BITCH
DISASTROID

TICKETS PRESALE SAN FRANCISCO:
https://www.venuepilot.co/events/65782/orders/new

TICKETS PRESALE JOSHUA TREE:
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Windhand, Live in Hollywood, CA, June 26, 2022

A couple days’ escape to Joshua Tree just as winter starts to wane sounds pretty god damn good right now. And that’s nothing against San Francisco, mind you — there’s an Amoeba Music there, so however otherwise expensive lodging may be, it’s worth it — but a bit of desert rock in its native habitat feels like a win, and with more bands to be announced, Heavy Psych Sounds Fest 2023 in California makes an enticing prospect. Daydream-worthy.

Traveling from the East Coast will be Weedeater, the particularly sludgy Witchpit, Cosmic Reaper and The Atomic Bitchwax, Duel make the trip from Texas, Hippie Death Cult come down from Portland, Oregon, and Brant Bjork and Nebula represent California itself, so already the two-dayers (which will swap lineups from one night to the next) are varied in geography and style, and one would expect no less at this point. It ain’t Heavy Psych Sounds‘ first rodeo. The label/booking empire also recently announced two fests in Italy and if past is prologue, one expects plenty more to come as well spread throughout 2023.

We live in a golden age. Peak riffs.

From the PR wire:

*** HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST CALIFORNIA *** first confirmed bands

Heavy Psych Sounds together with Plastic Cactus Productions and Subliminal SF presents the 2023 edition of the HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST CALIFORNIA !!!

The HPS Fest California will be taking place 25th and 26th of March, 2023 at the Thee Parkside (open air) in San Francisco and Hi Desert Cultural Center in Joshua Tree !!!

HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST – CALIFORNIA
@ Thee Parkside, San Francisco
@ Hi Desert Cultural Center, Joshua Tree

March 25th and 26th 2023

FIRST CONFIRMED BANDS

WEEDEATER
BRANT BJORK
NEBULA
THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX
DUEL
HIPPIE DEATH CULT
COSMIC REAPER
WITCHPIT

+ more TBA

In January we will unveil the full line up and single day line up.

Same line up will play both cities in different days !!!

TICKETS PRESALE SAN FRANCISCO: https://www.venuepilot.co/events/65782/orders/new

TICKETS PRESALE JOSHUA TREE: https://heavypsychsounds.ticketleap.com/heavy-psych-sounds-fest-joshua-tree-2023/

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Brant Bjork, Bougainvillea Suite (2022)