Psychedelic Rock Bands

David Gilmour — Pink Floyd's guitar voice whose soaring bends and atmospheric tone on Comfortably Numb defined emotional guitar playing.

Earthless — instrumental desert rock and psychedelic jams of sustained intensity, built around Isaiah Mitchell's extraordinary guitar playing.

Grateful Dead artist profile — psychedelic improvisation, dual-guitar interplay, and the band that invented the jam band tradition.

Jimi Hendrix artist profile — the greatest guitarist who ever lived. Feedback, wah-wah, and the Stratocaster sounds that changed music forever.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard artist profile — prolific Melbourne psychedelic rock band known for microtonal guitars, genre-hopping, and relentless output.

Kula Shaker — Britpop's psychedelic outliers who fused Sanskrit mantras with 1960s guitar rock.

Mdou Moctar — Tuareg guitarist from Niger whose psychedelic electric improvisation has redefined what indie rock can sound like.

Monster Magnet — space-rock psychedelia meets riff-worship, with Spine of God and Powertrip as signature records.

Pink Floyd artist profile — conceptual rock, atmospheric guitar, and studio innovation from Dark Side of the Moon to The Wall.

Super Furry Animals — Cardiff's genuinely strange Britpop experimentalists who recorded in Welsh and toured in a tank.

Tame Impala artist profile — Kevin Parker's phaser-heavy, multi-tracked psychedelic rock built on vintage gear and meticulous home production.

The Doors — Jim Morrison's theatrical persona and Ray Manzarek's organ-driven arrangements created a sound with no real precedent.

The Stone Roses — the Manchester band whose 1989 debut became the founding document of Britpop and a generation of guitar bands.

The Verve — Wigan's cosmic Britpop outliers whose Urban Hymns produced Bittersweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work.