Psychedelic rock - Revision history

Edb: Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

2026-10-22T10:52:00Z

Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

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Edb: Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

2026-10-22T02:33:32Z

Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

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	! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes		! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes !! Repertoire kind !! Repertoire date !! Recording date !! Format !! Opening !! Places !! Fit !! Evidence !! Review note !! MuGlobe favorite !! Current hit !! Authentic
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	\| Jefferson Airplane \|\| White Rabbit \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pnJM_jC7j_4 \|\| The official historical audio recording foregrounds Grace Slick’s voice and a concentrated psychedelic-rock arrangement.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4 Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Jefferson Airplane \|\| White Rabbit \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pnJM_jC7j_4 \|\| The official historical audio recording foregrounds Grace Slick’s voice and a concentrated psychedelic-rock arrangement.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4 Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4 Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pnJM_jC7j_4" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pnJM_jC7j_4" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pnJM_jC7j_4" field="authentic" />
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	\| The Jimi Hendrix Experience \|\| Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSsjtiky9xI \|\| The broadcaster’s archival performance offers a contrasting guitar-centered psychedelic-rock example.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSsjtiky9xI The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| The Jimi Hendrix Experience \|\| Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSsjtiky9xI \|\| The broadcaster’s archival performance offers a contrasting guitar-centered psychedelic-rock example.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSsjtiky9xI The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSsjtiky9xI Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="zSsjtiky9xI" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="zSsjtiky9xI" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="zSsjtiky9xI" field="authentic" />
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	\| Tame Impala \|\| Elephant — KCRW \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/PTllQ0oJduU \|\| A later Australian band performance shows psychedelic-rock language being reworked in a contemporary studio session.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTllQ0oJduU Tame Impala — Elephant — KCRW]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Tame Impala \|\| Elephant — KCRW \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/PTllQ0oJduU \|\| A later Australian band performance shows psychedelic-rock language being reworked in a contemporary studio session.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTllQ0oJduU Tame Impala — Elephant — KCRW]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTllQ0oJduU Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="PTllQ0oJduU" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="PTllQ0oJduU" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="PTllQ0oJduU" field="authentic" />
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Edb: Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

2026-10-18T18:02:37Z

Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead offer contrasting San Francisco entry points, while early Pink Floyd reveals another relationship between song, improvisation and sound. The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows' demonstrates how a compact studio piece can reorganize perception. Os Mutantes opens a Brazilian route that cannot be reduced to imitation, and later Australian groups such as Tame Impala illustrate further transformations. Listening across these examples makes the category's variety audible. No particular instrument, visual motif or personal behavior serves as a compulsory test of authenticity.		Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead offer contrasting San Francisco entry points, while early Pink Floyd reveals another relationship between song, improvisation and sound. The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows' demonstrates how a compact studio piece can reorganize perception. Os Mutantes opens a Brazilian route that cannot be reduced to imitation, and later Australian groups such as Tame Impala illustrate further transformations. Listening across these examples makes the category's variety audible. No particular instrument, visual motif or personal behavior serves as a compulsory test of authenticity.

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\| Jefferson Airplane \|\| White Rabbit \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pnJM_jC7j_4 \|\| The official historical audio recording foregrounds Grace Slick’s voice and a concentrated psychedelic-rock arrangement.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4 Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| The Jimi Hendrix Experience \|\| Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSsjtiky9xI \|\| The broadcaster’s archival performance offers a contrasting guitar-centered psychedelic-rock example.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSsjtiky9xI The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Purple Haze — Beat-Club 1967]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Tame Impala \|\| Elephant — KCRW \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/PTllQ0oJduU \|\| A later Australian band performance shows psychedelic-rock language being reworked in a contemporary studio session.<ref name="performance-psychedelic-rock-3">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTllQ0oJduU Tame Impala — Elephant — KCRW]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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Edb: Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

2026-10-18T00:50:22Z

Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

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== Summary ==
Psychedelic rock explores altered or intensified perception through sound, form and performance. Electric instruments, unusual studio effects, sustained repetition and unexpected timbral combinations can make a recording feel spatially expansive or unstable. The label describes a varied musical field rather than proof of a musician's drug use. A concise pop song, a long improvised performance and a dense studio construction can all belong to its history. What joins them is a willingness to treat the familiar rock ensemble and the listener's expectations as materials for transformation.

== Contemporary and trending ==
Psychedelic music remains active through new bands, experimental recording, festivals and the continuing influence of older catalogues. Some contemporary groups foreground vintage instruments and visual imagery; others combine the approach with electronic production, regional song traditions or heavier guitar music. Neo-psychedelic work can therefore be creative adoption rather than a faithful reconstruction of the 1960s. Audience networks connect local rehearsal scenes and international listening. Their current geography is broader than the two cities most often pictured in a historical account of the Summer of Love.

== History ==
During the 1960s, San Francisco and London became highly visible centers within a wider set of experiments involving folk, blues, studio technology and countercultural gatherings. Dance halls, light shows, posters, communal living and new ideas about concerts helped shape the musical environment. The Rock Hall's historical guide compares the two scenes without making them identical. Brazilian tropicalist experiments, German exploratory rock and other developments complicate an exclusively Anglo-American story. Psychedelia was a field of exchanges and reinterpretations, not a single sound invented once and then copied elsewhere. <ref name="psychedelic-museum">[https://library.rockhall.com/summer_of_love_turns_50 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library — Summer of Love Turns 50].</ref>

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen for changes in the perceived space around an instrument: echo, phasing, backwards sound or unusual layering can destabilize an otherwise familiar phrase. A bass pattern may remain constant while guitar and keyboard lines move freely above it. Some songs use drones or modal harmony; others bend ordinary pop forms through unexpected transitions. Long improvisation is one possibility, but carefully edited studio passages can create a similar sense of discovery. These devices do not have a fixed meaning by themselves; their effect depends on pacing, context and the relationships among the parts.

== Geography and communities ==
Northern California's historical landscape includes the communities surrounding San Francisco, while Britain supports a broader network beyond London. Germany and neighboring continental scenes represent another sustained experimental world. Southeastern Brazil has its own creative history, and Australian bands and audiences form a substantial later adopted landscape. The map uses broad fields for these connected cultures rather than isolated club addresses. It distinguishes historical roots from continued adoption, without implying that all music from one region is psychedelic or that a style's reach stops abruptly where a circle fades out.

== Artists ==
Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead offer contrasting San Francisco entry points, while early Pink Floyd reveals another relationship between song, improvisation and sound. The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows' demonstrates how a compact studio piece can reorganize perception. Os Mutantes opens a Brazilian route that cannot be reduced to imitation, and later Australian groups such as Tame Impala illustrate further transformations. Listening across these examples makes the category's variety audible. No particular instrument, visual motif or personal behavior serves as a compulsory test of authenticity.

== Related genres ==
[[Progressive rock]] shares some of psychedelia's interest in expanded form, while [[Folk rock]] and [[Blues rock]] supply close historical relationships. [[Dream pop]] and [[Shoegaze]] develop different later approaches to immersive texture. Psychedelic ideas also appear in electronic and regional popular musics beyond rock. These connections explain why the label can describe an approach inside another genre as well as a recognizable scene. <ref name="gm-cities">[https://rockhall.com/exhibitions/cities-and-sounds/ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Cities and Sounds].</ref>

=== References and further reading ===
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== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Psychedelic rock links historical northern Californian and British landscapes with substantial German, Brazilian and later Australian adopted worlds. Broad fields represent communities and listening networks between famous clubs. The interpretation distinguishes several histories rather than assigning every city a separate peak.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| psychedelic-rock-northern-california || Northern Californian psychedelic-rock landscape || 38 || -122 || 950 || 1 || San Francisco belongs to a broader connected countercultural and musical region.

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| psychedelic-rock-britain || British psychedelic and neo-psychedelic circuits || 53 || -2 || 1100 || 0.95 || A broad historical and continuing band/listening landscape beyond London.

|-
| psychedelic-rock-continental || German and neighboring experimental-rock circuits || 50.5 || 10 || 1400 || 0.7 || A distinct regional history of experimentation and sustained adoption.

|-
| psychedelic-rock-brazil || Southeastern Brazilian psychedelic intersections || -22 || -46 || 1500 || 0.67 || Locally creative history and later audiences warrant a broad adopted field.

|-
| psychedelic-rock-australia-east || Eastern and southeastern Australian psychedelic circuits || -33 || 145 || 1700 || 0.72 || A substantial later band and audience landscape.

|-
| psychedelic-rock-australia-west || Southwestern Australian psychedelic circuits || -32 || 116 || 750 || 0.72 || A meaningful separated western landscape, rather than a bridge across the sparsely connected interior.

|}