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Rolling Stone Live: Austin Psych-Rockers Black Angels

November 11, 2010 3:04 PM ET

With their lysergic grooves and hilarious twists on iconic rock titles ("Bad Vibrations," "Sniper at the Gates of Heaven"), the Austin, Texas fivesome Black Angels are one of the best psych-rock groups going. (They were recently named Rolling Stone's Band of the Week.) This intimate, stripped-down set is still plenty loud — check out these three songs from their third and latest LP, Phosphene Dream: "Entrance Song," "Haunting at 1300 McKinley" and "Bad Vibrations."

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