JOEL GION, WRITER

Joel Gion has played tambourine center stage with the Brian Jonestown Massacre for the past 30 years. He’s that good. The band was formed in 1990 and immediately established itself as the torchbearers of the classic ’60s “San Francisco Sound” and the most prominent U.S. chapter of shoegaze and Britpop. His first book, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time With the Brian Jonestown Massacre, was published by White Rabbit Books in 2024.