It’s official. After weeks of teasing, Tripping Daisy announced plans to hit the road this summer in their first nationwide tour this century. For the most part, the band has been on hiatus since the ...

Tripping Daisy, the Dallas psych-grunge band led by Tim DeLaughter (who’d go on to form The Polyphonic Spree) best known for alt-rock hit “I Got a Girl,” broke up in 1999 but have occasionally played ...

Jason Janik / Special Contributor Tim DeLaughter had a whirlwind 2024, releasing a new Polyphonic Spree album, touring with the band, helping design the immersive film Atmosphere and staging the ...

It was October 1999. Unbeknownst to a packed crowd at Melodica Fest in the Ridglea Theater, this would be Tripping Daisy’s last show. Less than a year later, founding guitarist Wes Berggren died of a ...

A drum fill, a cymbal choke. A grunt, a call to action and a count off. Then, fitting for an album that references a nuclear weapon in the title, an explosion. So begins the legendary Dallas band ...

Before Tim DeLaughter launched the cult-like psych-pop choir the Polyphonic Spree, he led a different kind of psych-pop cult band. DeLaughter's group Tripping Daisy had some good MTV hits in the '90s, ...

In the mid-’90s, Tripping Daisy went through major growing pains after Island Records released the quirky-poppy “I Got a Girl” as its first big single. “We got sucked into that environment where it ...

Long before he became the mastermind behind the Polyphonic Spree, Tim DeLaughter led Tripping Daisy, the Dallas band who made some extremely likable psych-pop jams that got serious alternative rock ...

The current lineup of Tripping Daisy, from left, Nick Earl, Philip Karnats, Tim DeLaughter, Mark Pirro, Bryan Wakeland. In the mid-’90s, Tripping Daisy went through major growing pains after Island ...