Contemporary Space Rock Bands

I'm extremely new to this forum.  It looks like a fabulous research, one I wish I knew of when I first started getting into this kind of music.  I wanted to ask if anyone knows of some contemporary space rock bands that tour.  By space rock, I mean something along the lines of Ash Ra Temple or Hawkwind.  

Welcome to the forum!
If you are anything like me, you will find that this particular site, will rob you of your hard earned cash, in the most rewarding and wonderful way...
I strongly recommend:
Astra - The Weirding. Probably the best psychedelic album in the last 25 years.
The Future Kings of England - I love just about everything this group puts out really. They are more in the Pink Floyd part of the woods, but you should definitely check these guys out!
Øresund Space Collective - The Black Tormato. Brilliant band, that I actually just saw live. They have an enormous amount of free downloads on their web page, which also consist of live material, where they really shine
Ozric Tentacles, Quantam Fantay, Hidria Spacefolk. Music for melting your brain away like cheese on bed of lava. These groups really stem from Steve Hillage, and the way he mixed electronics and out of this world guitar solos. If you like them you´ll probably like Steve as well.
Electric Orange - Krautrock from Hell. This could easily fit in under the space rock umbrella. Great album with lots of jammin guitars.
The Spacious Mind and First Band from Outer Space. Two Nordic bands that play old school space rock with somewhat loose structures and a lot of melody.
All these groups have Mp3´s on this site btw - you just have to go to the band´s page.
Cheers from Denmark!

Check that search button OP, there was another thread on this a few weeks ago:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=70197&KW=space+rock

Agree on the Ozric / Hillage axis.  One of my favorite axis..sess..

Touring is another thing.  Some of these bands are famous for being very irregular when it comes to that.  By the way, Ozric mastermind Ed Wynne (a long time denizen of the English countryside) recently moved to Ft. Collins.  So you are just about guaranteed to see them play at some point.




Edited by thechrisl - September 02 2010 at 14:19

Litmus are a relatively new UK group who have a similar sound to Hawkwind- not sure if they will play the US but did support Astra who definately one of the best modern psych bands around. Do Acid Mothers Temple still play live??? Mad Japanese space psych! Here and Now still gig but probably only in the UK (check out Floating anarchy with Daevid Allen/ Planet Gong!)

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Their most space-rock release is The Astronaut Dismantles Hal.

I´ve got a few friends who share your opinion, and I´m pretty okay with that. Music will always be something inevitably personal and beyond any sorts of classification - meaning there will never be a "standard", "the worst" "the best" or whatever one might call such a thing. A matter of taste perhaps? We know what we like and vice versa... You obviously know what you dislike

I loooove Diagonal btw - some common ground for you there

Sons of Selina were very space rocky in the mid 90's - are they still going?

Space Mushroom Fuzz

Edited by spacemanspace - January 05 2013 at 17:19

Some more said....Dungen, Hypnos 69, Lumerians

Astra and Ozric Tentacles are the big name contemporary space rock bands. Astra's The Black Chord, released earlier this year is getting lots of rave reviews. For the Ozrics, start with their early 90s material.

Edited by Apollo2112 - January 05 2013 at 17:58