Acid Rock

Subgenre of psychedelic rock music. Emerged 1965. Wikipedia

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82 artists with 1.2M combined listeners. 61% of them sit in the Rock-And-Roll / Mellow Gold / Canadian Rock community on the map. It shares the most artists with Psychedelic Rock.

Where Acid Rock sits on the map

• Rock-And-Roll / Mellow Gold / Canadian Rock · 50 artists (61%)
• Mellow Gold / Baroque Pop / Sunshine Pop · 12 artists (15%)
• Neo-Psychedelic / Indie Garage Rock / Psychedelic Rock · 6 artists (7%)
• Indietronica / Oxford Indie / Indie Poptimism · 2 artists (2%)
• Mellow Gold / Yacht Rock / Eurobeat · 1 artists (1%)
• Math Rock / Japanese Shoegaze / Japanese Math Rock · 1 artists (1%)

Strongest pairings in Acid Rock

Acid Rock artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Donovan & Jefferson Airplane · 32 shared playlists
2. Donovan & The Byrds · 31 shared playlists
3. Jefferson Airplane & The Byrds · 29 shared playlists
4. The Youngbloods & The Byrds · 19 shared playlists
5. Donovan & The Yardbirds · 19 shared playlists
6. Strawberry Alarm Clock & The Byrds · 17 shared playlists
7. Big Brother & The Holding Company & Jefferson Airplane · 17 shared playlists
8. Strawberry Alarm Clock & Jefferson Airplane · 16 shared playlists
9. Jefferson Airplane & Iron Butterfly · 13 shared playlists
10. Love & The Electric Prunes · 12 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Acid Rock, for their size.

• Psychedelic Rock · 11 shared artistsBoth: The Byrds, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Iron Butterfly
• Proto-Metal · 10 shared artistsBoth: MC5, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer
• Protopunk · 9 shared artistsBoth: MC5, The Seeds, The Electric Prunes
• Rock-And-Roll · 13 shared artistsBoth: Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, Ten Years After
• Mellow Gold · 17 shared artistsBoth: Jefferson Airplane, Ten Years After, The Byrds
• Edmonton Indie · 2 shared artistsBoth: Bloodrock, George Washington
• Baroque Pop · 5 shared artistsBoth: Donovan, Procol Harum, The Electric Prunes
• Sunshine Pop · 5 shared artistsBoth: The Box Tops, Tommy James & The Shondells, Strawberry Alarm Clock

Artists

82 artists tagged Acid Rock, ranked by listeners.

1. Frank Zappa234.8K listeners · Progressive Rock
2. Jefferson Airplane219.7K listeners · Mellow Gold
3. Ten Years After101.5K listeners · Mellow Gold
4. Eric Johnson73.0K listeners · Electric Blues
5. The Byrds70.9K listeners · Mellow Gold
6. The Yardbirds59.8K listeners
7. Donovan44.9K listeners · Mellow Gold
8. Big Brother & The Holding Company43.3K listeners · Mellow Gold
9. Procol Harum42.4K listeners · Mellow Gold
10. Shocking Blue23.8K listeners · Mellow Gold
11. Soft Machine22.5K listeners · Progressive Rock
12. MC520.5K listeners · Protopunk
13. Iron Butterfly18.6K listeners
14. Scott McKenzie17.5K listeners · Mellow Gold
15. Caravan15.2K listeners · Progressive Rock
16. Savoy Brown14.2K listeners · Rock-And-Roll
17. Jacco Gardner12.4K listeners
18. Focus12.4K listeners · Progressive Rock
19. The Box Tops11.4K listeners · Mellow Gold
20. The 13th Floor Elevators8.7K listeners
21. The Pretty Things8.3K listeners · British Invasion
22. 13th Floor Elevators7.2K listeners
23. Blue Cheer6.9K listeners · Proto-Metal
24. Quicksilver Messenger Service6.7K listeners · Mellow Gold
25. Spirit6.7K listeners · Rock-And-Roll
26. Taste6.5K listeners · Irish Rock
27. Eric Burdon & the Animals6.3K listeners · Rock-And-Roll
28. Black Moth Super Rainbow6.2K listeners · Indietronica
29. Vanilla Fudge6.1K listeners
30. Country Joe & The Fish5.7K listeners
31. The Mystery Lights5.6K listeners
32. King Tuff5.3K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
33. The Seeds5.3K listeners · Protopunk
34. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band5.1K listeners
35. Tommy James & The Shondells4.7K listeners · Mellow Gold
36. The Electric Prunes4.7K listeners
37. Strawberry Alarm Clock4.2K listeners
38. The End3.6K listeners
39. The Youngbloods2.9K listeners · Mellow Gold
40. Methyl Ethel2.9K listeners · Indie Rock
41. Moby Grape2.8K listeners
42. Ultimate Spinach2.8K listeners
43. The Chambers Brothers2.3K listeners
44. Sugarloaf2.2K listeners · Mellow Gold
45. Kaleidoscope2.1K listeners
46. Count Five1.9K listeners · Garage Rock
47. The Castaways1.7K listeners
48. Frijid Pink1.4K listeners
49. The Blues Magoos1.2K listeners · Protopunk
50. Junior Brown1.1K listeners · Rock-And-Roll
51. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown1.1K listeners
52. The Music Machine1.1K listeners · Garage Rock
53. Fargo1.0K listeners · Baroque Pop
54. Love1.0K listeners · Baroque Pop
55. Flying Teapot1.0K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
56. The Chocolate Watch Band1.0K listeners · Protopunk
57. The Third Bardo1.0K listeners · Protopunk
58. Toyboys1.0K listeners · Dance Rock
59. The Bonzo Dog Band1.0K listeners
60. Ceramic Animal1.0K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
61. The Amboy Dukes1.0K listeners
62. The Peanut Butter Conspiracy1.0K listeners
63. The United States Of America1.0K listeners
64. The Lemon Pipers1.0K listeners
65. Link Wray & His Wray Men1.0K listeners
66. Sweetsmoke1.0K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
67. Vetter1.0K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
68. H.P. Lovecraft1.0K listeners
69. The Blues Project1.0K listeners · Protopunk
70. Bloodrock1.0K listeners · Edmonton Indie
71. Mariano Moreno1.0K listeners · Indie Rock
72. Clear Light1.0K listeners · Proto-Metal
73. Tomorrow1.0K listeners · Rock-And-Roll
74. The Bobby Fuller Four1.0K listeners
75. Marion Black1.0K listeners · Mellow Gold
76. George Washington1.0K listeners · Post-Grunge
77. Spaceface1.0K listeners · Indietronica
78. Friend & Lover1.0K listeners · Psychedelic Rock
79. Melody’s Echo Chamber1.0K listeners · Neo-Psychedelic
80. Dock Boggs1.0K listeners
81. Zior1.0K listeners · Proto-Metal
82. The Jaggerz1.0K listeners · Mellow Gold