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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 ...

“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 ...

“For a few years now, people had been trying to get us to do Psychocandy shows, and there didn’t really seem much point to us [until] someone brought up the idea of a 30th-anniversary tour,” says Jim ...

Bands performing classic albums in their entirety is hardly a new thing at this point. But it isn’t every band whose material has struck a chord across multiple decades. When the Jesus and Mary ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain will commemorate the 30th anniversary of their fuzzy, landmark debut LP, Psychocandy, by playing it live on a tour this spring. The album contained the singles “Just Like ...

This year, Psychocandy, the Jesus And Mary Chain’s first album, turns 32. As it happens, that’s the same age, more or less, that rock ‘n’ roll itself was when Psychocandy came out. It wasn’t a young ...

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 ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s classic and endlessly influential debut album, Psychocandy, turns 40 later this fall, and to celebrate there’s a new 40th anniversary edition coming from November 14 via ...

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 ...

Where punk rock and rockabilly cranked up the '50s, music during the mid-'80s recast the '60s. A wealth of "girl group" covers were released during the decade – some good (Soft Cell's "Tainted Love") ...

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 ...