List of psych folk

Psych folk

Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock...

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• Adrian "Ade" Shaw
• Agincourt
  Agincourt (band)
  Agincourt were an English psych folk band.The band consisted of John Ferdinando, Peter Howell, and Lee Menelaus. They released one privately pressed album, Fly Away, on the Merlin label. This LP has commanded high prices amongst collectors....
  
  
• Ai Aso
• Akron/Family
  Akron/Family
  Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in Portland, Oregon , Tucson, Arizona and New York City, New York.-Music and history:...
  
  
• Alela Diane
  Alela Diane
  Alela Diane Menig is an American singer and songwriter living in Portland, Oregon.-Life and career:Alela Diane Menig, she grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the school choir...
  
  
• Alexander "Skip" Spence
• Allysen Callery
• Animal Collective
  Animal Collective
  Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
  
  
• Ariel Pink
  Ariel Pink
  Ariel Pink is a Los Angeles-based recording artist who is sometimes associated with the freak folk scene.-Biography:...
  
  
• Arborea
  Arborea (band)
  Arborea is an American musical duo combining elements of Acoustic, Folk , Blues, World Music, and Rock. Their music is associated with the Indie Folk, Psych Folk, Indie Rock, and New Weird America genres. Arborea consists of wife and husband team Shanti Curran and Buck Curran...
  
  
• Bermuda Triangle Band
  Bermuda Triangle Band
  Bermuda Triangle Bands wild psychedelic and delicately nuanced electric autoharp and transcendental vocals grew out of the late '60s folk rock scene. With an independent attitude, eccentric style and highly unusual instrument lineup, the group was unprecedented. Psychedelic rock autoharp was...
  
  
• Bobb Trimble
  Bobb Trimble
  Bobb Trimble is a cult psych-folk/outsider musician from Marlborough, Massachusetts.-Biography:He released two full-lengths, 1980's Iron Curtain Innocence and 1982's Harvest of Dreams...
  
  
• Caribou
• Castanets
• CocoRosie
  CocoRosie
  CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years...
  
  
• Colorama
  Colorama (band)
  Colorama is a psych folk / dream pop group formed by multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriter Carwyn Ellis. Other members currently include Luca Guernieri on drums and David Page on Bass...
  
  
• Comets on Fire
  Comets on Fire
  Comets on Fire was an American noise rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who were seeking to create rhythmically and sonically intense music that paid no attention to categorizations.-...
  
  
• Comus
  Comus (band)
  Comus is a British progressive rock / folk band which had a brief career in the early 1970s; their first album, First Utterance, gave them a cult following which persists. They have revived in the late 2000s and played several festivals.-History:...
  
  
• The Coral
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
  
• Current 93
  Current 93
  Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...
  
  
• Deadboy & the Elephantmen
  Deadboy & the Elephantmen
  Deadboy & the Elephantmen was an American indie rock band from 2000 to 2007. Based in Houma, Louisiana, the band was fronted by Dax Riggs ....
  
  
• Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
  
  
• Diane Cluck
  Diane Cluck
  Diane Cluck is an American singer and songwriter of intuitive folk. Although known as a solo performer, she has often collaborated with others, including a recent association with drummer Anders Griffen on tours in the US and UK....
  
  
• Dino Valente
• The Dodos
  The Dodos
  The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.- History :The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual...
  
  
• Donovan
  Donovan
  Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
  
  
• Dr. Strangely Strange
  Dr. Strangely Strange
  Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth , vocals and guitar, and Ivan Pawle bass and keyboards.-Career:...
  
  
• Dylan Ware
• Elf Power
  Elf Power
  Elf Power is an indie rock band that originated in Athens, Georgia. Currently, the line-up consists of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Rieger, keyboardist Laura Carter, guitarist Jimmy Hughes, bassist Derek Almstead, and drummer Eric Harris...
  
  
• Elliot Smith
• Entrance
  Entrance (musician)
  The Entrance Band is a band started by Guy Blakeslee . Their style of music has been described as psychedelic rock or stoner rock....
  
  
• Espers
  Espers
  Espers may refer to:*Esper, a term used in science fiction and the field of parapsychology*Esper , a class of people from the Akira manga and film*Espers , a Philadelphia based folk group**Espers , their eponymous debut album...
  
  
• Forest
  Forest (band)
  Forest were an English psychedelic folk / acid folk trio who formed in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1966. Made up of brothers Martin Welham, Adrian Welham and school friend Dez Allenby, they started out performing unaccompanied traditional folk music in a similar vein to contemporaries The Watersons...
  
  
• Fursaxa
  Fursaxa
  Fursaxa is a USA-based acid folk or freak folk project led by Tara Burke of Philadelphia. Her home-recordings feature acoustic guitar, simple Casio electronic keyboards, accordion, dulcimer and her heavily overdubbed vocals on a 4-track recorder.She has been making music since childhood...
  
  
• The Gris Gris
  The Gris Gris
  The Gris Gris is a four-piece psychedelic rock band from Oakland, California. Their name was partially inspired by the Dr. John album Gris-Gris. The group was signed to Birdman Records in 2003 after they did a gig with Birdman recording artists The Modey Lemon. Birdman owner David Katznelson was...
  
  
• Grizzly Bear
  Grizzly Bear (band)
  Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Greg Weeks
  Greg Weeks
  Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is best known as a founding member of the psychedelic folk-rock band Espers. Weeks has released four solo albums and has guest-recorded with many...
  
  
• Hala Strana
  Hala Strana
  Hala Strana is the name of a recording project of American musician Steven R. Smith. Smith began recording under the name in 2002 as an outlet which allowed him to explore the traditional music of Eastern Europe more fully than possible with his solo work...
  
  
• High Places
  High Places
  High Places is a band originating from Brooklyn, NY, recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA. The band is a duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson.-History:...
  
  
• Hölderlin
• The Holy Modal Rounders
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  A Hawk and a Hacksaw is a band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently signed to L.M. Dupli-cation. The band consists of accordionist Jeremy Barnes, who was previously the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel and Bablicon, and violinist Heather Trost...
  
  
• In Gowan Ring
• The Incredible String Band
• Islaja
  Islaja
  Islaja or Merja Kokkonen is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. Besides her solo career, she is a member of free improv and psych folk bands Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä....
  
  
• Ithaca
  Ithaca
  Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...
  
  
• Jack Rose
  Jack Rose
  Jack Rose may refer to:* Jack Rose , a classic cocktail* Jack Rose American gambler and underworld figure in NYC* Jack Rose , American guitarist...
  
  
• Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker
  Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental music group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.-Biography:Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty members drawn from the U.S....
  
  
• Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom
  Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
  
  
• Josephine Foster
  Josephine Foster
  Josephine Foster is an American modern folk and psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer...
  
  
• Julien Aklei
  Julien Aklei
  Julien Aklei is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist who spent her teen years in Louisville, Kentucky....
  
  
• Kath Bloom
  Kath Bloom
  Katherine Bloom is an American singer-songwriter based in Litchfield, Connecticut, whose sad voice often accompanies simple folk melodies.The daughter of oboist Robert Bloom, Kath grew up in New Haven, where she studied the cello as a child and started playing the guitar when she was a teenager...
  
  
• Kelli Ali
• The Ladybug Transistor
  The Ladybug Transistor
  The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective.Started in 1995 by Gary Olson, Edward Powers and Javier Villegas, the band quickly released Marlborough Farms on Park N' Ride records, adding and subtracting a couple members and going on an...
  
  
• Larkin Grimm
  Larkin Grimm
  Larkin Grimm is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Memphis, Tennessee.She was born into a monastic order called Holy Order of MANS...
  
  
• Lasher Keen
• Lau Nau
  Lau Nau
  Lau Nau or Laura Naukkarinen, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä formed by fellow acid folk singer-songwriters Islaja and...
  
  
• The Legendary Pink Dots
  The Legendary Pink Dots
  The Legendary Pink Dots are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream , LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently.-Overview:The Legendary Pink Dots formed in August 1980 in London...
  
  
• Lilys
  Lilys
  Lilys are an American indie rock band formed in Washington, D.C in 1988. The only constant member is Kurt Heasley, with the line-up changing regularly...
  
  
• Linda Perhacs
  Linda Perhacs
  Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her only album Parallelograms in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet...
  
  
• Loren Mazzacane Connors
  Loren Mazzacane Connors
  Loren MazzaCane Connors is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors...
  
  
• Marianne Nowottny
• Mariee Sioux
  Mariee Sioux
  Mariee Sioux is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent, and her mother Felicia is of Spanish, Paiute, and Indigenous Mexican descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Marissa Nadler
  Marissa Nadler
  Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.-Early life:Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer...
  
  
• Mellow Candle
  Mellow Candle
  Mellow Candle were a progressive folk rock band. Principally Irish, the members were also unusually young, Clodagh Simonds being only 15 and Alison Bools and Maria White 16, and still at school, at the time of their first single, "Feelin' High", released in 1968 on Simon Napier-Bell's SNB...
  
  
• Midlake
  Midlake
  Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas. The band first gained popularity in Europe, signing to Bella Union Records and playing at festivals such as Les Inrockuptibles, Wintercase, End Of The Road Festival and South by Southwest.-History:...
  
  
• Mr. Pine
  Mr. Pine
  Mr. Pine are a Canadian psych folk band formed in 2003 from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-History:The band's music combines elements of acid folk, classical music, pop, and several kinds of roots music, especially British folk music. The band was formed in 2003 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by Matt McLennan...
  
  
• Music for Dead Birds
  Music for Dead Birds
  Music for Dead Birds are an anti-folk band from Galway and Mayo, Ireland. Its members are Jimmy Monaghan and Donal Walsh...
  
  
• MV & EE
• Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
  
  
• Niagara Falls
  Niagara Falls (band)
  Niagara Falls is an experimental band from Philadelphia, PA that has ties to the recent psych folk resurgence as well as the burgeoning noise and neo-ambient or space music movements. They formed in 2004 as a quartet of Norman Fetter, Jeff Carpineta, Erich Breimhurst, and Jennifer Lee, and became...
  
  
• Orpheus GhostSong
• Oranger
  Oranger
  -Band history:Mike Drake, Matt Harris and Jim Lindsay knew each other from playing together in previous bands Overwhelming Colorfast and Stick Figures. They formed Oranger in 1997 with Chad Dyer of American Sensei on bass, Mike Drake providing vocals and guitar, Jim Lindsay on drums and Matt Harris...
  
  
• Outrageous Cherry
  Outrageous Cherry
  -History:Outrageous Cherry formed in 1992 as a solo project for Matthew Smith, but soon expanded to a four-piece after he began performing live in 1993...
  
  
• Paavoharju
  Paavoharju
  Paavoharju is a Finnish musical collective of ascetic Christians formed around two brothers, Lauri and Olli Ainala. They came to attention in 2005 when their debut album was highlighted as "Album of the Week" by popular publication Stylus Magazine....
  
  
• Panda Bear
  Panda Bear (musician)
  Noah Benjamin Lennox also known as Panda Bear, is an experimental musician and a founding member of Animal Collective.-Early life:...
  
  
• Paul Roland
  Paul Roland
  Paul Roland , is a recording artist, writer and journalist.-Biography:Paul Roland was born in England in 1959...
  
  
• Pearls Before Swine
  Pearls Before Swine (band)
  Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida. They released six albums between 1967 and 1971, before Rapp launched a solo career.-Early years, 1965-68:...
  
  
• Pentangle
  Pentangle (band)
  Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...
  
  
• Peter and the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf (band)
  Peter and the Wolf is the American folk band formed by musician Red Hunter. Hunter says about his song writing, "I carry a journal everywhere with me. I will stop in the middle of whatever I'm doing to write down an idea, whether it's something I think about, hear, observe, or whatever...
  
  
• P.G. Six
• Plasticland
  Plasticland
  Plasticland is an American Neo-Psychedelic and Garage rock band, formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1980 with two members of Arousing Polaris, Glenn Rehse and John Frankovic....
  
  
• Saibou Bungaku
  Saibou Bungaku
  Saibou Bungaku is a Japanese Psych folk/Freak folk/Blues band. The members are Tomoaki Saito and Seijiro Kuroda . Tomoaki Saito also sings as a solo. Seijiro Kuroda sometimes plays as a member of Tenniscoats, Kalco, etc.....
  
  
• Scorched Earth
  Scorched earth
  A scorched earth policy is a military strategy or operational method which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area...
  
  
• Secret Cities
• Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus
  Sharron Kraus is an English singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester, England...
  
  
• Shirley and Dolly Collins
• Shrubs
  Shrubs (American band)
  -History:Shrubs are an American rock ‘n roll band formed in 1994 in Rock Tavern, New York. The band members are Bob Torsello , Rob Takleszyn , Jay LoRubbio...
  
  
• Sibylle Baier
  Sibylle Baier
  Sibylle Baier is a German folk singer and actress whose musical abilities achieved belated recognition with the 2006 release of the album Colour Green, compiled from songs she had recorded in the early 1970s....
  
  
• Simon Finn
  Simon Finn
  Simon Finn is an English psych folk musician.Finn was born in 1951 in Surrey, moved to London in 1967, where his first performance was opening for Al Stewart at the Marquee Club in Soho. He released his Pass the Distance LP in 1970, which in later years attained legendary status as it was so hard...
  
  
• Six Organs of Admittance
  Six Organs of Admittance
  Six Organs of Admittance is the primary musical project of guitarist Ben Chasny. Chasny's music is largely guitar-based and is often considered new folk, however it includes obvious influences, marked by the use of drones, chimes, and eclectic percussive elements...
  
  
• Spires That in the Sunset Rise
  Spires That in the Sunset Rise
  Spires That in the Sunset Rise is an American Psych folk band from Decatur, Illinois. The four original members of the band grew up together in Decatur, Illinois, eventually moving to Chicago, Illinois where they began to experiment with creating songs...
  
  
• Spirogyra
  Spirogyra (band)
  This article refers to the British folk band. For the American jazz fusion band, see Spyro Gyra.Spirogyra are a British folk/prog band that recorded three albums between 1971 and 1973, with further original albums in 2009 and 2011.-History:...
  
  
• StickLips
• The Story
  The Story (UK band)
  The Story are an English psychedelic folk duo comprising former Forest member Martin Welham and his son Tom Welham. The pair write and record melodic songs that range from psychedelic pop to stream-of-consciousness folk and play an array of predominantly acoustic instruments as a backdrop to their...
  
  
• Syd Barrett
  Syd Barrett
  Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
  
  
• Thistletown
  Thistletown (band)
  Thistletown are a psychedelic folk band from Falmouth, Cornwall.They came to public attention through a Guardian Newspaper column by Will Hodgkinson concerning his year long project to start a record label, after he saw them playing in The Jacobs Ladder pub in Falmouth...
  
  
• Tim Buckley
  Tim Buckley
  Timothy Charles Buckley III was an American vocalist, and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album was mostly folk oriented, but over time his music incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, avant-garde and an evolving "voice as instrument," sound...
  
  
• Trees
  Trees (band)
  Trees was an American New Wave one-man band, fronted by Dane Conover, from San Diego, California. Trees only released one album on MCA Records, which was produced by Earle Mankey called Sleep Convention . It was a critical success but a commercial failure...
  
  
• Trembling Bells
  Trembling Bells
  Trembling Bells is an English folk rock group formed by drummer Alex Neilson, a musician with a strong history of free and improvised playing with several artists...
  
  
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Vashti Bunyan
  Vashti Bunyan
  Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. In 1970, Bunyan released her first album, Just Another Diamond Day. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career...
  
  
• Vetiver
  Vetiver (band)
  Vetiver are an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic.- History :Cabic was a member of the Greensboro, North Carolina indie rock band The Raymond Brake who released some records on the now defunct Simple Machines label. He formed Vetiver after moving to San Francisco. The band...
  
  
• Werkraum
  Werkraum
  -Overview:Growing up in the fields of experimental music and post-industrial music with several other projects since the early 1990s, Axel Frank began to adapt a more melodic neofolk, electronic and dark ambient approach...
  
  
• Witthüser & Westrupp
  Witthüser & Westrupp
  Witthüser & Westrupp was a German singer-songwriter duo consisting of Bernd Witthüser , guitar, mandolin and Walter Westrupp guitar, ukulele, trombone, harmonium, psalter and many other instruments. The band was formed in June 1969 as "W&W's pop cabaret", singing German texts in a special way. In...
  
  
• Woven Hand
  Woven Hand
  Wovenhand is a band from Denver, Colorado led by former 16 Horsepower lead singer David Eugene Edwards. Woven Hand's music combines elements of neofolk, alternative country, post-rock, punk, industrial music, folk rock, old-time music and native American music, among other influences.-History:The...
  
  
• Yeasayer
  Yeasayer
  -History:The band's three core members, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder, first came to attention after appearing at the SXSW festival in early 2007. Their first single consisted of a double A-side of the tracks "Sunrise" and "2080"...