There’s a clip on YouTube of the Jesus and Mary Chain frontman Jim Reid at his hilarious and terrifying peak as an interviewee. It’s 1985 and he’s just been told, off-camera, by an assistant on a ...

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 ...

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") ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain were always defined by their notoriety. In 1985, when their 15-minute gigs would frequently collapse into riots and their excitable manager, Alan McGee, was defining them as ...

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 ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced that they will perform their iconic albu, Psychocandy in full to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The Psychocandy album, which was released on Alan McGee's ...

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 ...