Psychedelia manifests itself in many different forms across music. While the original intentions of the loose genre were to replicate the experiences of ingesting psychedelic drugs, or the weightier notion of "expanding one's mind (read: taking drugs, but in a pretentious way)," its combination of pop accessibility with experimentation has transformed into a variety of different musical acts.



Those who say that psychedelic rock is "dead" may be correct, but that is a non-issue. Music changes from generation to generation and exists under its own context. Even modern bands that appear to "re-create" the styles of the 60s and 70s could only exist at this specific point in time.

Anyway, the following musicians bear traces of what can be deemed "psychedelic." Whether it is through mind-bending experimentation, or certain sounds that harken back to the first flood of psychedelic bands in the late 1960s, these artists are carrying the torch for psychedelia in music.