Psychedelic rock

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Psychedelic rock

a genre of 1960s music that has a dreamy, surreal sound, made with electric guitars and effects, and often inspired by mind-altering drugs

synonyms : acid rock

Examples

1. It is a Brazilian psychedelic rock band.</i

2. Janis Joplin succumbs to addiction Janis Joplin was a titan of psychedelic rock and one of the true icons of the 1960s.

3. But the decade also saw a huge rise in the popularity of a number of other genres, including Motown, psychedelic rock, and folk.

4. So, you’ll remember from our last episode that we learned that not everyone in the 1960s was a psychedelic rock-listening, war-protesting hippie.