Picnic Lightning from Fort Worth, Texas are a rock band whose raw and brooding desert punk is the sound of summer heat and dimly lit clubs. Their dark, post-everything wall of sound howls like a dust storm, delivering a spiritual stomp that dwells in the shadowland of trenchant questions and orphic revelations. 

"Desert rock meets lo-fi punk." - Punktastic

"Fuzzed-out rock that deftly walks the line between cerebral and unhinged." - DFW.com

Picnic Lightning formed in 2013 with Thomas Ketchersid on lead vocals and guitar, Cole Watkins on vocals and guitar, John Cope on bass and vocals and Cameron Navarro on drums and vocals. Their Gilded Youth EP (2014) and eponymous debut album (2016) were enthusiastically received by local press and blogs, earning them nominations for Best Rock Band, Best Rock EP, Best Rock Album in the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards.

"FURIOUS IMMEDIACY." - Fort Worth Weekly

"Just let your ears buzz with joy." - Austin Town Hall

Influenced by Sunny Day Real Estate, TV on the Radio and Radiohead as well as Velvet Underground and The Beatles, their songs deftly touch the inexhaustible complexities of life and do so with sonics as singular as the individual human experience. They croon and holler, stomp and skip, wax thoughtful where vengeance belongs; and vice-versa. It’s the fuel that sets your car aflame or gets you home; the drug that puts you down or brings out the beast. The band’s mantra from day one has been: let no one suffer. 

“Barely restrained indie rock that has touch-points from Yo La Tengo to Sonic Youth to Ty Segall.” - The Mad Mackerel

"Roars and stomps on wild, twisted guitars." - The Big Takeover

"All the right amounts of grittiness." - Paste

For Fans of Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Killers, Lord Huron, Manchester Orchestra, mewithoutYou, Modest Mouse, Ty Segall, Queens of the Stone Age, Squid, TV on the Radio, The White Stripes.

“Barely restrained indie rock that has touch-points from Yo La Tengo to Sonic Youth to Ty Segall.” - The Mad Mackerel