The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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The Brian Jonestown Massa (2019)	Something Else (2018)	Don't Get Lost (2017)
Third World Pyramid (2016)	Mini Album Thingy Wingy (2015)	Musique de film imaginé (2015)
Revelation (2014)	Pol-Pot's Pleasure Pentho (2012)	Aufheben (2012)
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (2010)	My Bloody Underground (2008)	The Diane Perry Tape (2004)
...And This Is Our Music (2003)	Bravery, Repetition, and (2001)	Bringing It All Back Home (1999)
Strung Out in Heaven (1998)	Give It Back! (1997)	Take It From the Man! (1996)
Their Satanic Majesties' (1996)	Thank God for Mental Illn (1996)	Methodrone (1995)
Spacegirl and Other Favor (1993)	Peel Sessions 1998 (0)

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8 Male

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San Francisco, USA

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Psychedelic Rock

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Rock/Pop

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre was formed in San Francisco in 1990. The band has had over 40 members since then, but its driving force and main songwriter is Anton Newcombe. Other prominent members have included Matt Hollywood, Dean Taylor, Jeff Davies, Brian Glaze, and Joel Gion. Their sound is heavily influenced by the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s, but also carries influences from shoegaze, jangle pop, garage rock, and lo-fi sonorities.

Over its decade-long history, the band has undergone a large number of personnel changes. Multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter Anton Newcombe is the only member who has stayed with the Brian Jonestown Massacre since its beginning, when it was founded by Newcombe, tambourine player Joel Gion (who stayed with him the longest), and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Matt Hollywood. There are at least two dozen musicians who have been in the BJM at one point or another.

Ex-members include: guitarist Jeff Davies; Matt Hollywood, a founding member of Portland band The Out Crowd; Peter Hayes, founding member of San Francisco rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Joel Gion, a founding member of San Francisco band, The Dilettantes; Rob Campanella, a Los Angeles producer and engineer who has worked with The Tyde, Beachwood Sparks, Dead Meadow, Mia Doi Todd, Frausdots, Scarling., and his band The Quarter After; Bobby Hecksher, founding member of Los Angeles band The Warlocks; solo recording artist Miranda Lee Richards; Matt Tow, founding member of the Australian band The Lovetones.