Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

San Francisco’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are one of the most lysergic bands associated with the garage-rock boom of the 2000s.

After a stint with psychedelic eccentrics Brian Jonestown Massacre, guitarist Peter Hayes cofounded BRMC with bassist Robert Levon Been (son of The Call’s Michael Been) in 1998.

They made an instant splash with a 2001 debut that surrounded greaser-rock snarl with Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired noise squalls and cosmic blues mantras capable of peeling the lid back on your third eye.