The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Influenced - A podcast by Blake Sokoloff & Robert Dean

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Named after the ill-fated founding member of the Rolling Stones and the tragic Jamestown Massacre, The Brian Jonestown Massacre live up to the bizarre nature of their band name. Founded in the late 1980's by Anton Newcombe ( the band's only consistent member), the BJM have always been about Newcombe's musical vision. From their early days in the eighties and early nineties as displaces of the UK's shoegaze movement (a la Slowdive and RIDE) to the vintage rock and roll twang that would encompa...