psychedelic rock

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psychedelic rock

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The album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) first used psychedelic to describe music; the band The 13th Floor Elevators is sometimes credited with coining the term.

noun

uncountable A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
Similar: acid rock, psych

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noun genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.

Português	rock psicodélico
Français	rock psychédélique
Русский	психодели́ческий рок psixodelíčeskij rok

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@misc{psychedelic_rock_2026,
  title = {psychedelic rock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/psychedelic%20rock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}