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The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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Forreaders who like psychedelic rock and adjacent scenes (shoegaze, krautrock, drone), and want an opinionated map through the brian jonestown massacre’s big discography.
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American rock band formed in 1991 and centered on songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anton Newcombe. Reviews describe a sound rooted in 60s psychedelia and related revival forms, later expanding into krautrock, drone, and hypnotic repetition, with a frequently changing lineup.

Publicly verifiable basics: formed in 1991; generally categorized as an American psychedelic rock/neo-psychedelia band; Anton Newcombe is founder and long-term core member. Reviews additionally mention recordings and activity in Europe (Berlin) and characterize the project as unusually prolific.

Across these reviews, The Brian Jonestown Massacre are framed as Anton Newcombe’s long-running, prolific project: heavy on 60s psych DNA, but often pushed through shoegaze, drone, and krautrock grooves. Writers praise the band’s “class” and hypnotic repetition, even when admitting derivation or redundancy. Several reviews highlight a Berlin phase (Cobra Studio) and later records leaning into kosmische/kraut, PIL-like bass/groove, and political readings. Consensus: not about reinvention—more about making the wheel spin, obsessively, convincingly, and at length.

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