The Brian Jonestown Massacre is the ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock musician Anton Newcombe. It has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-'90s, becoming something of an independent institution.

Early highlights like 1996's Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request showed Newcombe's propensity for melding late-'60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later standouts like 2015's Musique de Film Imaginé took a more cerebral and experimental approach. The band's most visible period followed the 2004 documentary DIG!, which focused on the contentious relationship between Newcombe and Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. Despite criticism from both sides for unfair portrayal, the band survived the attention and entered a fertile creative period in the 2010s. First release of the 2020s: 2022's Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees, followed by 2023's Your Future Is Your Past.