Spacemen 3

Astral drones and blissful grooves

Lena Dunham also co-starred in the episode

Peter Kember hits the road this March

Sonic Boom tours the UK this month

Ten years ago, as Sonic Boom's new sleevenotes attest, he and Jason Pierce were "making hypno-monotony" and smoking a lot of grass. Spacemen 3 were a cult on the brink of brimming over, which soon happened with the spin-off of Pierce's Spiritualized. Their penultimate LP as a pairing was The Perfect Prescription, here stretched to a double with the addition of various demos and unreleased sessions. In two modes, hippie-trance riffery and hushed faux-religious reverence, it's love-it-or-hate it puritan-rock. The drugs, clearly, worked for them.

Some interesting responses to the free psych CD blog that I posted yesterday; thanks for those, and keep your thoughts coming.

Plus Peter Perrett, Suede, Steve Cropper, Spacemen 3 and more good stuff

The Spacemen 3 / Animal Collective duo's collaboration continues...

Pierce takes us on a trip from the furthest reaches of Spacemen 3 to Spiritualized...

Twenty-four songs which inspired the stoned psychedelic meanderings of Spacemen 3