Manifested by the local Portable Shrines collective, Seattle’s trippiest music festival enters its second year with another potent dose of psychedelic and experimental music. Among the goodies: Moon Duo’s Suicide-meets-Hawkwind trance jams. Climax Golden Twins’ Harry-Smith-on-‘shrooms explorations. Midday Veil’s star-dusted mysticism and folkadelic songcraft. The Curious Mystery’s tuneful slow dissolves. Edibles’ blissful dubadelic fantasias. You get all of this plus consciousness-raising DJs and ocular-oscillating visuals to keep you buzzing all night long. (Lo-Fi Performance Gallery, 429 Eastlake Ave E, www.escalatorfest.com, 8 pm, $12, 21+)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...