There are places that sound much louder and more colorful than others …
How it sounds
Like Indie rock mixed with the psychedelia of the ’60s.
With the sound of a Pacific Ocean wave crashing on a California beach.
Like a gentle aura caressing our ears and brings with it the aroma of the… cigarette that the company has “popped” next to it.
It is essentially a mix of indie, surf, and Psychedelic rock combined with a very special sound.
Why listen to it
Because it is very summery, harmless, and melodic.
And because it looks like a summer Sunday afternoon.
Why not
Because our life is not like a summer Sunday afternoon.
Excessively melancholy and lost in its psychedelic melodies.
Where we meet it
USA, California, and more specifically in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Davis
When did it start
In the mid-1980s
Who are the pioneers
Undoubtedly Dream Syndicate, when they were created in Los Angeles in 1981, but also True West who lived in Davis.
However, the name came out a year later by Michael Quercio of The Three O’Clock.
The name came when he collaborated with his close friend Lina Sedillo bassist of the local punk band Peer Group who wore a dress with a paisley design *.
Her bass also had the phrase: “Words from the paisley underground”.
A few weeks later he was asked to describe the bands The Bangles, and Rain Parade, which together with his own belonged to the same record label.
This is how the name of the genre was born.
Green on Red and Alternate Learning are also considered pioneers of the genre.
You have to listen
Game Theory, Thin White Rope, 28th Day, Exploding Flowers, Mercury Rev, Grandaddy
Days of glory
In the mid-1980s, mainly with the success of The Bangles, but also after the mid-1970s, there was a resurgence of the movement.
It is worth noting that he influenced many big names.
Red card
Its character like a movement, rather than as a genre.
Many bands have given up the term and some others have followed more pop tracks.
What is it confused with
With alternative rock, folk-rock, garage rock, Shoegazing
How do you describe it to an irrelevant
Something Californian psychedelic for sunburned stoned surfers.