The Black Angels with Black Lips at the Backyard Stage

The St. Augustine Amphitheatre, in partnership with JaxLive, presents psychedelic garage rock groups The Black Angels with special guest Black Lips on their "The Birds and The Bees Tour" on the Backyard Stage of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Saturday, April 14, 2018.

The Black Angels came to national attention in 2006 with the release of their LP, Passover. The album was highly praised, called "the most powerful album of the year" by NPR. The band was described as "undisputed avatars of contemporary psychedelic rock," according to Austin City Limits. The praise continued with their 2008 release, Directions to See A Ghost, which Rolling Stone compared to "the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, [and] the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams."

Their live shows quickly elevated their music to new heights. The New York Times says they "play psychedelic rock as if the 1960s never ended, and they are absolute masters of it." They have toured with everyone from The Black Keys and Wolfmother to the Stone Age and Roky Erickson.

The Black Lips got their start in 1999 in a quiet suburb of Atlanta. The group started playing shows in the area as they developed their sound — garage rock with a good amount of blues, psychedelia, and punk added in. They released their first 7-inch in 2002, Ain't Coming Back. The Black Lips partnered with Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono for their ninth album, Satan's graffiti or god's art?, in 2016.

For more information about The Black Angels and the Black Lips, as well as about this Backyard Stage concert, please visit here.

Admission: General Admission Standing Room tickets are $27.00 if purchased in advance and $22.00 if purchased on the day of the show.

When: Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Where: St. Augustine Amphitheatre is located at 1340 A1A South in St. Augustine, FL 32080.

Parking Information: The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is located on Anastasia Island next to Anastasia State Park. Limited paid parking is available in the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Main Lot, but only with advance purchase of a Premium Parking ticket. Free satellite parking areas are located within one mile of the Amphitheatre, at R.B. Hunt Elementary and at Anastasia State Park (see map below).

Shuttle Information: The St. Augustine Amphitheatre shuttle system begins its run 45 minutes prior to show time. The shuttle will pick up event patrons at four designated shuttle stops: the R.B. Hunt Elementary School Soccer Field, the west entrance of the Anastasia State Park Main Parking Lot, the Loop at the Anastasia State Park, and the entrance of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. To see the full shuttle route, please see the map below.

Shuttles will run continuously until approximately 45 minutes after the scheduled start time of a concert. For anyone wanting to leave prior to the end of a show, shuttles will begin taking people back to the satellite parking areas one hour before the event is over. The driver will not depart the Amphitheatre until the shuttle is more than 50% full.