This editorial goes into a deep dive on the bands of the paisley underground California scene exploring their biographies, album reviews, and tracklists that made them famous and popular during their initial release focusing only on their music of the 1980s, even though some bands continued and altered their sound as they entered the 1990s. These bands were important as it was a time of exploration and combination of underground rock music, borrowing sounds from the past, and incorporating new sounds. Though some bands had more success than others, it is important to remember them for their accomplishments and what uniqueness they brought to rock music. The paisley underground is a term musicians and critics used to describe the psychedelic jangle pop music that came out of California—particularly Los Angeles—in the early 1980s. The bands were a direct link between the underground modern alternative rock scene that was to follow in the next decade.

Paisley Underground Editorial