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Spiritualized Nikki LaneWednesday, May 23, 2012 The Fillmore  Better than: Battling your own demons.It's impossible to separate the man behind Spiritualized from his music. The psyche

Hear a live set from the neo-psychedelic band, which crafts a grand combination of rock and gospel. In this tidy half-hour concert, Spiritualized's energy never wanes, right up through the noisy blast that closes "Come Together."

                    Spiritualized's setup for Wednesday's show at Emo's East was fittingly immoderate. Pierce stood stage left, facing stage right, and did not remove his sunglasses the entire show. Behind him, two backup lady singers. (Side note: is there a better move for a band than to employ backup lady singers?) To their left, the drummer, and to his left, a keyboardist. In front of him ...

A good English recording studio can cost anywhere from $800 a day on up, according to Jason Pierce. Exhausting both financially and emotionally, it forces musicians to squeeze as much work as they can into 12-hour days while the meter’s running. So the meticulous Spiritualized maestro chose a less costly route for his band’s new magnum opus “Sweet Heart Sweet Light.” He plugged his fully loaded ...

Aligned in a crescent shape spread wide across the Granada Theater stage, Spiritualized began and ended with startling blasts of noise.

In Spiritualized, Jason Pierce uses minimalism for maximum effect. Most of the songs during the band’s 130-minute performance Friday night at the Theater of Living Arts built on a one- or two-chord guitar riff, but they became majestic, inspiring monuments. Pierce’s roots are in psychedelic rock (going back to the ’80s, when he called himself J. Spaceman in the British band Spacemen 3) and in ...

Back in the late ’90s, Spiritualized started making New Age music for hipsters — slow, dreamy minimalist pop that buried “oohs” and “ahhs” in a haze of studio gook. Then Jason Pierce, the band’s frontman, realized that if he really wanted to ascend to the astral plane, he might need a gospel choir or two to help him along. Read full article >>

Spiritualized, led by Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J. Spaceman), has experienced agony, recovery, redemption and two near-death experiences in its 13 years as a band. Watch it explode into space-rock bliss at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.

Spiritualized, led by Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J. Spaceman), has experienced agony, recovery, redemption and two near-death experiences in its 13 years as a band. Hear it explode into space-rock bliss at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.

"It's ironic that in some ways, when I needed music the most, making this record really fucked it up for me." So explains Jason Pierce, the mastermind behind English band Spiritualized and the newly released Sweet Heart Sweet Light , their sixth studio album. He's juggling phone int...

The British band Spiritualized performed at Terminal 5, led by Jason Pierce, who delights in a brazen guitar line.