Artist Acid Mothers Temple

Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple is a communal collective that appears under so many names and with so many different chaotic ideas happening at once that it’s difficult to know exactly who or what will turn up. In 2009 alone, the group released four studio albums on four separate labels, including the trippy, hypnotic Interstellar Guru And Zero. The band released two more in 2011 (Pink Lady Lemonade—You’re From Inner Space and The Ripper At The Heaven’s Gates Of Dark), but regardless of the material the band chooses to perform at a given show, you can count on lots of utter cosmic weirdness, with nods to prog-rock (think King Crimson, Hawkwind), meditation, and space.

Updated 04/12/2012