From the second the drums hit on opening track “Just Like Honey,” Psychocandy challenges the idea of a classic pop song. It’s a straight “Be My Baby” beat—galloping, regal and teasing an immanent ...

“Music, at that time, if it could be condensed into one image, would be a smiley face. And that appalled us. We wanted to shake things up. We wanted to do something different, bring a bit of edge or ...

Sep 11, 2015 The Jesus and Mary Chain By Michael Wojtas In an interview a couple of years ago, you mentioned feeling a lot of opposition from the music industry in the band’s early days. Can you ...

With the instantly recognizable pounding of the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and one of the most brittlely distorted guitar lines ever put to tape, alt-rockers the Jesus and Mary Chain laid the groundwork ...

Walking up to the Glass House on Thursday night, it wasn’t surprising to see a crowd of young adults dressed in black-and-white striped shirts and leather jackets – some in thick eyeliner and black ...

Does this news takes you back to your own mid-’80s days as a sneering, black leather jacket-clad teenager? Does it set your mind adrift to that dark movie theater where you sat in 2003 realizing that ...

In November 2014, the Jesus and Mary Chain played their first live show in six years, a homecoming performance at the Barrowlands venue in Glasgow, Scotland. The gig included the entirety of the ...

Released in 1985, debut album Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain laid the groundwork for the shoegaze genre as well as alternative rock in general. It's place in music history has been permanent ...

Tonight outside L.A., nearly 30 years after the release of their influential album Psychocandy, brothers Jim Reid and William Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain kick off a U.S. tour in which they’ll ...

Of all the bands who've returned in recent years to perform their critically acclaimed 'seminal' album, The Jesus & Mary Chain's decision to tour Psychocandy was probably the most well received.