psychedelic rock
nounEtymology The album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) first used psychedelic to describe music; the band The 13th Floor Elevators is sometimes credited with coining the term.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
- Derived terms
- psych-rock, psy rock