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The next The Brian Jonestown Massacre concert is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at La Cigale in Paris, France. See all 47 upcoming concerts
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About The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Formed
1990
Genre
Rock
Since 1990, The Brian Jonestown Massacre have proven to be highly prolific practitioners of psych-rock hypnosis, and that productivity can be largely attributed to the unwavering autocratic vision of one man. Singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe formed the group in San Francisco and has remained its lone constant member over a turbulent history that’s yielded enough disgruntled ex-members to fill a phone book (though the band’s largely silent, mutton-chopped tambourine man, Joel Gion, has proved to be Newcombe’s most loyal right-hand man). Drawing equally from sneering ’60s mod rock, hazy-headed shoegaze, and sitar-speckled psych folk, the BJM achieved underground renown with a surge of seven eclectic albums released between 1995 and 1998, culminating in a short-lived major-label stint on TVT Records that ultimately couldn’t turn them into the American Oasis. But after Ondi Timoner’s acclaimed 2004 documentary, Dig!, put the BJM’s inter-band dysfunction—and penchant for onstage fisticuffs—on the big screen for all to see, Newcombe suddenly found himself playing for the largest audiences of his career. Since then, his ever-mutating group has enjoyed a sustained second wind that’s seen them veer between the beat-driven dance experiments of 2010’s Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, the multilingual motorik odysseys of 2012’s Aufheben, and the jangly drones of 2022’s Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees.
Members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre include, or have included, Anton Newcombe, Peter Hayes, Dean Taylor and more.
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