“I had a crazy idea and was looking for musicians who perhaps didn’t think it was so insane”.  - Dave Alvin GLIDE: VIDEO PREMIERE: The Third Mind (Dave Alvin, Jesse Sykes, Victor Krummenacher, David Immerglück, Michael Jerome) Share Haunting & Scorching “Groovin’ Is Easy”https://glidemagazine.com/295919/video-premiere-the-third-mind-dave-alvin-jesse-sykes-victor-krummenacher-david-immergluck-michael-jerome-share-haunting-groovin-is-easy/ It was only three years ago that the world was introduced to The Third Mind, although the musicians that make up the group are familiar to almost any music snob. Originally started by Dave Alvin of The Blasters (guitar) and Victor Krummenacher of Camper Van Beethoven (bass), the duo then added Michael Jerome (drums), David Immerglück (guitar), and the final piece to the plan, Jesse Skyes (vocals and acoustic guitar). Each member of the band has had a formidable career of their own, Immerglück coming from Counting Crows, Skyes having an impressive discography with her band Jesse Skyes and The Sweet Hereafter, and Jerome playing drums for Richard Thompson. The concept for The Third Mind was simple, to rediscover their love for classic records from the 1960’s and reconfigure them to fit this all-star arrangement. The kicker is that a lack of arranging is what makes them so unique.  The Third Mind is an improvisational band, disregarding their collective decades of songwriting for a more free-flowing format. Taking note from the greats of jazz, the band doesn’t write new arrangements for their covers rather they hit the studio with nothing but passion and a wealth of experience. Their first album, the self-titled release from 2020, showed the budding creativity of a collection of artists with unquenchable ambition. Only three years later, the band is back with “Groovin’ Is Easy”, the second single to the anticipated sophomore LP The Third Mind 2, which is set to release on October 27. With the exception of “Tall Grass”, the band’s single from earlier this summer written by Alvin and Skyes, their second outing follows the same formula as their first. All arrangements are improvised and all lyrics are lifted from deep cuts of the 1960’s blues and folk scene.  – Glide Magazine (Sept ’23)

The Rain Parade debut album, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip came out in 1983 and was internationally recognized as a unique psychedelic album - Seven of the ten songs on that debut were sung by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, The bands second record, Explosions In The Glass Palace, garnered the same high praise as the debut with their reputation increasing ever since as one of the leaders of the Paisley Underground.   Last Rays Of A Dying Sun which manages to sound both like a lost classic and the groundbreaking work of unknown new artist, emerging from their secret lair with a record ready to change the world. As MOJO puts it, “there’s little rain on their new parade.”      Wrapping sweet nuggets of pop confection in swirling clouds of interstellar psychedelia, Last Rays Of A Dying Sun is a record at once eminently engaging and delightfully ornate. Everything old is new again, and it’s very easy to see the line that runs from the Summer of Love and the chiming tones of Jangle Pop to mid-eighties SoCal Paisley Underground of which Rain Parade was a pivotal component, through to the late-90’s Elephant 6 Collective, straight to neo-psych indie rock of today.