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Psych folk
Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined music genre that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock. It retained the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but added musical influences common to psychedelic rock and the psychedelic experience.
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T. Rex
T. Rex were an English glam rock band fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Marc Bolan. Formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1960s London, the folk rock group's debut album My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to...
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- 1970
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T. Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though...
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- Sep 30, 1947
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 1977 (age 29 years)
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Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. Later members included Jeremy Barnes (drums), Scott Spillane (horns) and Julian Koster (banjo, bass guitar, musical saw,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1998
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci were a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in Carmarthen, west Wales in 1991. They sang songs in both Welsh and English. They split up in May 2006.
The group was formed by Euros Childs (vocals and keyboards), John Lawrence ...
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- 1991
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- May 26, 2006
The Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) was a psychedelic folk band formed in Scotland in 1965. The band built a considerable following, especially within British counterculture, before splitting up in 1974. The group's members are...
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The Coral
The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside.
The band's music is a mixture of old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelia and folk with modern rock influences. The Coral have released four albums....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica in 1989 from the group Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith. Smith's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Smith left the band...
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- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1997
Mickey Finn
Mickey Finn or occasionally Micky Finn (born Michael Norman Finn, 3 June 1947, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England — died 11 January 2003, Croydon, Surrey), was the percussionist and sideman to Marc Bolan in his band Tyrannosaurus Rex (on one album, A...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1947
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 2003 (age 55 years)
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Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he returned to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San...
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- May 30, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Pearls Before Swine
Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida. They released six albums between 1967 and 1971, before Rapp launched a solo career.
With high school friends Wayne...
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- 1965
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1971
Faun Fables
Faun Fables is a band from Oakland, California. Faun Fables is a concept and vehicle for Dawn McCarthy, who was inspired to write the original material while traveling after leaving the New York City music scene in 1997. Faun Fables also covers both...
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- 1999
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Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan (born 1945) is an English singer-songwriter.
Following the release of her first LP, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970, Bunyan disappeared from the music industry until interest in her music was reignited in the early 2000s.
Vashti...
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- 1945 (age 65 years)
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Kelli Dayton
Kelli Dayton, also known as Kelli Ali (a name she took to honour her father, Michael Ali), was born 30 June 1974 in Birmingham, England.
Ali is a female vocalist most recognized for being lead singer for the trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps, under the...
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- 1974 (age 36 years)
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Jarboe
Jarboe (also known as The Living Jarboe) is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist.
Jarboe is a solo artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the New York City based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of...
Lau Nau
Lau Nau or Laura Naukkarinen, (born 1980) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä...
Date of birth:
- 1980 (age 30 years)
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CocoRosie
CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in many years. Their music has been...
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Julian Koster
Julian Koster is a member of the Elephant 6 Collective. He is the leader of The Music Tapes, and a former member of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chocolate USA. He is also believed to be closely connected to the highly secretive Major Organ and the Adding...
Orhan Gencebay
Orhan Gencebay (born August 4, 1944 in Samsun, Turkey as Orhan Kencebay) is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.
Orhan was born in the coastal town of Samsun on August 4, 1944....
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- Aug 4, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Witthüser & Westrupp
Witthüser & Westrupp was a German folk duo consisting of Bernd Witthüser (born 29 April 1944), guitar, mandolin and Walter Westrupp (12 February 1946) guitar, ukulele, trombone, harmonium, psalter and many other instruments. The band was formed in...
In Gowan Ring
B'eirth or B'ee (born Bobin Jon Michael Eirth in 1974?), is the vocalist and conductor/composer in the experimental psych folk band In Gowan Ring.
Rarely mentioned in articles and reviews without an adjective, B'eirth has been called "mysterious," ...
Date of birth:
- 1974 (age 36 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Ariel Pink
Ariel Pink (born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg on June 24, 1978) is a Los Angeles based avant-garde musician who is sometimes associated with the freak folk scene. Pink boasts a cult following and endorsements from more widely known artists such as fellow...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Ben Chasny
Ben Chasny is an indie rock and psych folk guitarist. His primary projects are Six Organs of Admittance (his solo psych folk project) and Comets on Fire (a psychedelic rock band). He made his recording debut in 1996 with his heavy, free rock project...
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Sonja Kristina Linwood
Sonja Kristina Linwood (born 14 April 1949, in Brentwood, Essex) is an English musician, usually known as Sonja Kristina, and most famous as vocalist for Curved Air.
Around late 1967/very early 1968, Sonja Kristina was helping to run (and was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Brian Castillo
Brian Castillo (born November 22, 1968) is an American musician/producer, and photographer born in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for his work with The Living Jarboe and In Gowan Ring, sometimes in a musician role and sometimes as a producer...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Lowry
Lowry is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band with members originally hailing from Kansas, New Zealand, Australia, North Carolina and Canada. Originally emerging from New York City's "anti-folk" scene, the band has gone through several incarnations...
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Nalle
Nalle (Finnish for a small bear, generally a teddy bear, and named after a childhood toy of vocalist Hanna Tuulikki) are a psych-folk trio, based in Glasgow, who were formed in the summer of 2004. They comprise Finnish-English vocalist Hanna...
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Greg Weeks
Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is best known as a founding member of the psychedelic folk-rock band Espers. Weeks is also a member...
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The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots are a U.S. rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri.
In their career, The Grass Roots achieved one platinum album, two gold albums, one gold single and...
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The Holy Modal Rounders
The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk music duo from the Lower East Side of New York City which started in the early 1960s, consisting of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a...
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Jackie-O Motherfucker
Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental rock group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.
Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than...
Ghost
Ghost is an experimental rock group formed in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984.
Core-member Masaki Batoh grew up in Kyoto, Japan where he attended a private school. During this time, he became interested in American rock music ranging from Bob Dylan and Pink...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
Comus
Comus is a British progressive rock / folk band which had a brief career in the early 1970s; their first album, First Utterance, gave them a cult following which persists. They have revived in the late 2000s and played several festivals.
The band...
Amazing Blondel
Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, consisting of Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as Psych folk or as...
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope (originally The Kaleidoscope) was an American psychedelic folk and ethnic band who recorded 4 albums and several singles for Epic Records between 1966 and 1970.
The group was formed in 1966. The original members were:
Lindley was an...
Shearwater
Shearwater is an indie rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1999 by Okkervil River members Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff.
Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff, who began their collaboration as members of the critically lauded Okkervil River, founded...
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Espers
Espers is a psych folk band from Philadelphia that is part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena...
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Sunburned Hand of the Man
Sunburned Hand of the Man are a band from Massachusetts that formed in 1997 from the remnants of the Boston psychedelic punk trio Shit Spangled Banner.
Sunburned Hand of the Man has an amorphous lineup, with composition and instrumentation...
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Wax Mannequin
Wax Mannequin is the stage name of Chris Adeney, a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. His style has been described as "a hybrid of Bruce Cockburn and Frank Zappa", "Tom Waits and Type O Negative jamming on the early Beatles catalogue", and ...
Loren Chasse
Loren Chasse is an American musician , sound artist, field recordist and teacher, most notable for his association with Jewelled Antler and his work with Thuja, The Blithe Sons, The Child Readers, Of and many others. He has been called "one of the...
Werkraum
Werkraum is the creative music works of German musician Axel Frank.
Growing up in the fields of experimental music and post-industrial music with several other projects since the early 1990s, Axel Frank began to adapt a more melodic neofolk,...
Josephine Foster
Josephine Foster is an American modern folk singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. Several years later she abandoned the idea and began to...
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Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, comprising Edward Droste (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Daniel Rossen (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Chris Taylor (bass, backing vocals, various instruments, producer) and Christopher Bear (drums,...
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The Great Society
The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco rock band in the burgeoning Haight Ashbury folk-psychedelic style pervasive during the time of its existence, 1965 to 1966. The band was also known as "The Great! Society!!." Remembered as the original...
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Burning Saviours
Burning Saviours were a Swedish doom metal band founded in 2003 and active until 2008.
Burning Saviours came together in 2003 when Mikael Marjanen (guitar) and Martin Wijkstrￃﾶm (drums) discussed starting a heavy rock/doom metal band. They named...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Nov 2003
Circulus
Circulus are a psychedelic folk/progressive rock band from South London, England, founded by vocalist Michael Tyack.
The band uses a mix of modern and medieval instruments, such as the lute, cittern, crumhorn and rauschpfeife, along with the moog...
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Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1946
Date of death:
- Jul 7, 2006 (age 60 years)
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Donovan
Donovan (Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia,...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Castanets
Castanets is the musical project of Raymond Raposa, a San Diego native currently residing in Portland, Oregon. While Raposa is the only constant member of the band, his records and live performances often feature a seemingly never-ending rotating...
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Virgin Passages
Virgin Passages are a three piece musical ensemble from Staffordshire based around James Nicholls, Sarah Naylor and David Geoghegan - three original members from the now defunct 5 piece 'Wardrobe' who released one record entitled 'Mechanism Genie &...
Julien Aklei
Julien Aklei (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist who spent her teen years in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Washington Post referred to Aklei as an "eerie-intriguing singer-songwriter" with a ...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Paleo
Paleo is the band name taken by songwriter David Strackany for his wiry, folk tangents. Strackany is credited with having written and recorded a song every day for 365 days, while touring the US from April 16, 2006 (Easter Day) to April 15, 2007....
Date of birth:
- 1981 (age 29 years)
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Bermuda Triangle Band
Bermuda Triangle Band's wild psychedelic or delicately nuanced electric autoharp and transcendental vocals grew out of the late '60s folk rock scene.With an independent attitude,eccentric style and highly unusual instrument lineup, the group was...
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Roger Penney
Roger Penney is an innovative singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He pioneered a style of American psychedelic folk music in the late 60s, early 70s and is known for his inventive performances and recordings as Bermuda Triangle Band as...
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Islaja
Islaja or Merja Kokkonen (born May 19, 1979) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. Besides her solo career, she is a member of free improv and psych folk bands Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä.
She...
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- May 19, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Fursaxa
Fursaxa is a USA-based acid folk or freak folk project led by Tara Burke (born June 28th, 1969) of Philadelphia. Her home-recordings feature acoustic guitar, simple Casio electronic keyboards, accordion, dulcimer and her heavily overdubbed vocals on...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1969 (age 40 years)
Alela Diane
Alela Diane Menig (b. April 20, 1983, Nevada City, California, USA) is an American singer and songwriter, who is associated with the psych folk and New Weird America musical genres.
She grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the...
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- Apr 20, 1983 (age 26 years)
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The Dodos
The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber. Since 2009, Keaton Snyder had joined the band as their vibraphone player.
The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when Meric Long, who had been gigging...
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is an experimental band from Philadelphia, PA that has ties to the recent psych folk resurgence as well as the burgeoning noise and neo-ambient or space music movements. They formed in 2004 as a quartet of Norman Fetter, Jeff Carpineta...
Paavoharju
Paavoharju is a Finnish musical collective of ascetic Christians formed around two brothers, Lauri and Olli Ainala. They came to attention in 2005 when their debut album was highlighted as "Album of the Week" by popular indie publication Stylus...
Larkin Grimm
Larkin Grimm (born September 18, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Memphis, Tennessee.
She was born into a spiritual commune/cult called 'The Holy Order of MANS'. Her father is a fiddler of German, Afro-Caribbean, and Sinti...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1981 (age 28 years)
