The Reverberation Appreciation Society

The Reverberation Appreciation Society is an American music organization associated with psychedelic rock, garage rock, experimental pop, and related underground scenes. It operates as a record label while also creating, curating, and producing the Levitation festival series. Its festival activity includes Levitation Austin, Levitation France, Levitation Chicago, and Levitation Vancouver, giving the organization a role that extends beyond conventional label operations into artist curation, live-event production, and the development of an international psychedelic-music community. The label began releasing music in 2010, initially with Christian Bland and the Revelators’ The Lost Album. Christian Bland is associated with The Black Angels, a band central to the Austin psychedelic-rock community from which the broader Levitation identity developed. The Reverberation Appreciation Society’s catalogue subsequently expanded to include artists such as Joel Gion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ringo Deathstarr, Wall of Death, Indian Jewelry, Golden Animals, Night Beats, Holy Wave, The UFO Club, The Vacant Lots, Elephant Stone, Cosmonauts, Al Lover, The Meek, The Cult of Dom Keller, and Levitation-linked contemporary acts. Its catalogue has included studio albums, EPs, singles, split releases, archival or retrospective projects, tribute compilations, and live recordings. Early releases focused heavily on independent psychedelic and garage-oriented artists, while later catalogue entries increasingly connected the label to live Levitation performances. The Levitation Sessions series is particularly important to the organization’s recorded output: releases by Osees, Fuzz, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Goat, and other acts document performances made within the festival’s artistic ecosystem. The organization’s positioning is therefore both curatorial and community-based. Rather than presenting itself only as a traditional label with a narrowly defined commercial roster, it functions as a platform linking recorded music, touring artists, festival programming, physical releases, and a recognizable psychedelic-music aesthetic. Its work helps connect Austin’s local scene with international artists and festival editions in Europe and Canada. The available reference material does not establish a separately incorporated parent company, ownership structure, current executive team, exact headquarters, or financial profile. Those details remain undocumented here.

The Reverberation Appreciation Society emerged from the psychedelic-music culture associated with Austin, Texas, and the Levitation festival identity. Its documented record-label activity began in 2010 with Christian Bland and the Revelators’ The Lost Album. The early catalogue established a focus on contemporary psychedelic rock, garage rock, and adjacent independent music, with releases by Shapes Have Fangs, The UFO Club, Night Beats, The Meek, The Vacant Lots, Cosmonauts, Indian Jewelry, Elephant Stone, Holy Wave, Wall of Death, The Cult of Dom Keller, Golden Animals, and other artists. The catalogue developed through a mixture of artist albums, EPs, split releases, and collaborations. Several early entries were closely connected to members or affiliated acts from the psychedelic and garage scenes, including The UFO Club, a collaboration involving The Black Angels’ Christian Bland and Night Beats’ Lee Blackwell. Releases by Holy Wave, Christian Bland and the Revelators, Joel Gion, and other roster artists reinforced the label’s connection to the Austin-centered psychedelic music network while also bringing in artists from broader international scenes. The organization’s role expanded beyond recorded music through its work as creator, curator, and producer of the Levitation festival series. The documented festivals include Levitation Austin, Levitation France, Levitation Chicago, and Levitation Vancouver. This combination of label and festival activity gives The Reverberation Appreciation Society an integrated cultural function: it releases music, presents artists in live settings, and uses festival programming to connect regional scenes and international touring acts. Later catalogue material increasingly incorporated live recordings associated with Levitation. The Levitation Sessions series includes projects by Osees, Fuzz, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Goat, and other artists. These releases broadened the label’s output from conventional studio albums toward performance documentation and audiovisual or event-linked projects. Other later entries include live albums by Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Levitation Room’s Strange Weather, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s Live at Levitation. The available reference material does not provide a verified founding location more specific than the United States, a named founder or executive leadership roster, ownership information, financial data, or a confirmed current operating structure. It also does not establish a precise date for each festival edition or each catalogue release. Accordingly, the organization is best described as an active American psychedelic-music label and festival platform whose identity is built around curation, independent releases, and the international Levitation event series.

• 2010

  Record-label activity begins

  [1]The Reverberation Appreciation Societyen.wikipedia.org

  The label’s documented catalogue begins with Christian Bland and the Revelators’ The Lost Album, identified as release RVRB 001.

• Levitation festival network develops internationally

  [1]The Reverberation Appreciation Societyen.wikipedia.org

  The organization becomes associated with creating, curating, and producing Levitation Austin, Levitation France, Levitation Chicago, and Levitation Vancouver.

• Levitation Sessions expands the recorded catalogue

  [1]The Reverberation Appreciation Societyen.wikipedia.org

  The label adds live and festival-linked recordings by artists including Osees, Fuzz, Goat, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

A curator-led psychedelic-music platform combining independent record releases with international festival production and artist community building.

• Studio album · 2010

  The Lost Album

  Christian Bland and the Revelators’ The Lost Album is the first documented release in The Reverberation Appreciation Society’s catalogue. It established the label’s connection to Austin’s psychedelic-rock community and serves as the catalogue’s RVRB 001 release.

• Record-label releases

  Core psychedelic and garage-rock catalogue

  The label’s catalogue includes albums, EPs, split releases, and singles by artists such as Holy Wave, Ringo Deathstarr, Shapes Have Fangs, Wall of Death, Night Beats, Indian Jewelry, The Vacant Lots, Elephant Stone, Cosmonauts, Golden Animals, The Meek, and The Cult of Dom Keller. Together, these releases represent the organization’s principal independent psychedelic and garage-oriented music output.

• Live recordings

  Levitation Sessions

  Levitation Sessions is a series of live or performance-centered releases connected to the Levitation festival ecosystem. Documented entries include projects by Osees, Fuzz, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Goat, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and other artists, extending the label’s role from studio-recording publisher to curator of filmed or recorded live performances.

• Music festivals

  Levitation festival series

  The Reverberation Appreciation Society creates, curates, and produces the Levitation festival series. The documented editions are Levitation Austin, Levitation France, Levitation Chicago, and Levitation Vancouver. These events provide a live platform for psychedelic, garage, experimental, and related independent artists.

1. 1The Reverberation Appreciation Societyen.wikipedia.org
2. 2The Reverberation Appreciation Society record labelaustinpsychfest.com