Another great review of the new deluxe edition of Emergency Third Rail Power Trip in the latest issue of The Big Takeover!

Rain Parade is deeply saddened to learn of our dear friend's illness. We love Greg, and Thom, and urge you all to consider donating: www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr... Our hearts ache for Greg and his loved ones, and we wish him the very best and send him healing vibes. You got this, brother!!

Psychedelic Psunday, anyone? Feel free to suggest your trippy Rain Parade track of choice in the comments section 📝

Steven guests on the latest episode of the Into Music podcast - hear it here: www.kmuw.org/podcast/into...

What’s your favorite memory of seeing Rain Parade live?

Delighted to discover that the catalog of legendary Paisley Underground retro-psych indie pop band @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social is (mostly) back in print, both on Bandcamp and streaming on Spotify. Go crazy!

2000 Great Songs #1027: No Easy Way Down. @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social infuse their jangly retro-pop-psychedelia with an extra dose of trippy exploration, a headphone-friendly lysergic jam.

Happy birthday Matt! ✨ (📷: Ali Blair)

Now available on your streaming platform of choice: Rain Parade – Live in Japan at Tsubaki House. Experience the raw energy of Rain Parade's December 13, 1984 performance at Tokyo's Tsubaki House.

A new playlist, Ear Candy from the Clubhouse 1985 (part two), is now available on Spotify. Let’s keep finding out what Rain Parade were listening to when Crashing Dream first came out, shall we? open.spotify.com/playlist/5Xn...

“With the Robacks and guitarist Matt Piucci all contributing vocals and songwriting, Rain Parade seemed to answer the question, ‘What would it sound like if the circa-’66 Byrds and Beatles were transported to the early ‘80s Sunset Strip?’” - Bandcamp Daily

Happy birthday @dereksee.bsky.social! 🎈

Happy 70th birthday Michael Steele (Bangles, Runaways). Complicated gurl. Read our classic feature on the Paisley Underground, featuring @thebangles.bsky.social, @dreamsyndicate.bsky.social, @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social, Three O’Clock and more: magnetmagazine.com/2001/05/18/o...

Next Saturday we’re joining forces with the fab Triptides to bring some serious psychedelic grooves to the City of Angels. Hope to see you at Zebulon!

Retro-audition reveals LA’s great Rain Parade as clearly proto-shoegaze: youtu.be/7ay8Fzwsa2U?...

“Dreamy soundscapes and intricate arrangements are now signatures of many current acts, tracing roots back to Rain Parade’s pioneering style” www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

Truly a great album. And the reissue is extremely well done. Highly recommended.

Massive thanks to Vinyl Fetish Club for including Emergency Third Rail Power Trip in their excellent 100 Albums That Matter list! youtu.be/kdgAp0hOZnE?...

Looking forward to sharing the stage with these good folks! And you are definitely coming, right?!

#throwbackthursday: bubbling up 📷: Laura Levine

Record Store Day is here and so is the deluxe reissue of Crashing Dream! Support your local record store and make sure to pick up this special release today. Find more info and a participating indie record store near you at recordstoreday.com #RecordStoreDay #RSD2025

Under appreciated classic @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social #rsd #rsd25 #rsd2025 #RecordStoreDay! #vinyl #vinylcommunity

One month till our show with The Asteroid No.4 in Mill Valley! Have you got your tickets yet??

Record Store Day is one week away! Find a participating indie record store near you at recordstoreday.com and make sure to grab a copy of the new deluxe edition of Crashing Dream! #RecordStoreDay #RSD2025

Record Store Day is one week away! Find a participating indie record store near you at recordstoreday.com and make sure to grab a copy of the new deluxe edition of Crashing Dream! #RecordStoreDay #RSD2025

So what were Rain Parade listening to the year Crashing Dream came out? Check out our new playlist and find out! open.spotify.com/playlist/4dJ...

LA! We hope to see your beautiful faces on May 31st for a most memorable event - we’re playing at Zebulon with fab @label51recordings.bsky.social labelmates @triptides.bsky.social!

#throwbackthursday: Rain Parade lands in Liverpool!

‘Mystic Green’ is the b-side of new digital single ‘Sad Eyes Kill’ (now available wherever you like to stream music). The song is a paean to our return to the old world, the color of our past and a nod to our ancestors who are buried there. Flowers will spring from every grave!

OUT NOW! A new digital single made of a remix/remaster of ‘Sad Eyes Kill’, plus ‘Mystic Dream’, from the forthcoming Record Store Day deluxe edition of Crashing Dream. Hear it on your streaming platform of choice and let us know what you think!

Listening to the advance release of an alternate flexi-disc take of Sad Eyes Kill released today. This is absolute heaven to this aging Paisley Underground fan.

Coming as part of this year’s Record Store Day (which is happening on Saturday April 12th)… Find more info and a participating record store near you: recordstoreday.com/Stores #RSD2025 #RSD25 #RecordStoreDay2025

Spoiler alert: the vinyl edition of the Last Stop on the Underground EP looks and sounds REALLY good. Have you ordered your copy yet? (📷: @dereksee.bsky.social) label51recordings.shop/products/rai...

“Emergency Third Rail Power Trip stands as one of the great psychedelic pop albums, up there with the Byrds, the Doors, the 13th Floor Elevators, and Jefferson Airplane. And it sounds as good as or better than any of them” Thanks to the Los Angeles Review of Books for the great write-up!

Good people of Mill Valley! This is happening on 9th May, and we would very much love to see your faces - get your tickets now: www.etix.com/ticket/p/586...

This can't be today...or can it?? Because today we welcome #paisleyunderground heroes Rain Parade on to chat about #1977albums, and the band's glorious past, present, and bright future. Wherever you get pods or linktr.ee/onlythreelads. @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social @label51recordings.bsky.social

What’s the first Rain Parade record you bought?

Matt guests on the latest episode of The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour! Rain Parade, boatclub, Hellenes, Crazy Horse, rocking with Country Joe McDonald…hear about these and many other fab things on your podcast app of choice!

On this Valentine’s Day, remember to Share Your Love ❣️

Some nice words from Creation Records’ Alan McGee, as published in the Guardian in 2008.

Rain Parade ~ Last Stop on the Underground #nowplaying @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social

When/where did you first hear of Rain Parade?

“The Rain Parade's debut captures the psych-pop scene brewing anachronistically in early-'80s LA in its full flush of glory, a sparkling wonder full of wild-eyed guitar swerves and dreamy washes of sound” The Boston Globe

#flashbackfriday: Bucketfull of Brains issue 10, 1984. Anyone here who remembers reading a copy of this?

What’s your favorite Rain Parade song to hear live?

“Remains a mind-melting masterpiece” Thanks to Eleni P. Austin and Coachella Valley Weekly for the great review of the new expanded edition of Emergency Third Rail Power Trip!

Thank you magic lad @mattpiucci of @rainparadeofficial.bsky.social for joining me on this week’s @revpermovie.bsky.social … you still wrote many of the greatest songs of all time…so…there!!! New ep out tomorrow!!!

This week, we are joined by Paisley Underground legend @mattpiucci (@therainparadeofficial , Crazy Horse) to discuss the TODD HAYNES’ documentary, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. shows.acast.com/64de4e5db283...

This week, we are joined by Paisley Underground legend @mattpiucci.bsky.social (@rainparadeofficial.bsky.social , Crazy Horse) to discuss the TODD HAYNES’ documentary, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. shows.acast.com/64de4e5db283...

Our hearts and minds are with our friends and family in Los Angeles. We love you all, and please stay safe.