8/3/2023 0 Comments Rain on your parade length![]() In 2012, Piucci and Steven Roback reunited as Rain Parade for a benefit concert and, in 2018, joined The Dream Syndicate, The Bangles and The Three O’Clock to record the 3×4 album, a celebration of the Paisley Underground that featured the four bands each covering one song by each of the other three bands. Rain Parade followed up that debut with the Explosions in the Glass Palace EP in 1984 and a final, major-label full-length, Crashing Dream, in 1986, before disbanding for the first time.ĭavid Roback, who died in 2020 of cancer, left Rain Parade following the release of the band’s debut and later formed Opal with Kendra Smith of The Dream Syndicate and Mazzy Star with Hope Sandoval. Rain Parade’s 1983 debut, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, remains a high-water mark for Los Angeles’ Paisley Underground scene, which also counted The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate and The Three O’Clock as key members. Piucci and the late David Roback formed Rain Parade in 1981, with the two singer-guitarists drafting Roback’s brother, Steven Roback, and Will Glenn and Eddie Kalwa to fill out the band’s ranks. The album, featuring new songs written by original band members Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, will be released on digital, CD, LP and cassette in May, the first title from new Colorado-based label Flatiron Recordings, co-founded by Bill Hein, who co-founded and ran Enigma Records with his brother in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() The reunited Rain Parade, one of the leading lights of the Paisley Underground scene in early- and mid-’80s Los Angeles, this spring will release Last Rays of a Dying Sun, the band’s third studio album - and its first collection of new songs in nearly four decades. ![]()
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