Jason Pierce

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jason Pierce -- aka J Spaceman -- has been a driving force in forward-thinking, hypnotic music with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, and on his own. Pierce founded Spacemen 3 in 1982 with Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, and over the course of albums such as 1987's The Perfect Prescription and 1989's Playing with Fire, the band crafted a spacy, narcotized sound inspired by the Velvet Underground, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich, and had the motto "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to." Pierce expanded on that sound in the '90s with Spiri...