The People's Temple was an American garage rock band that formed in 2007 in Perry, Michigan, and later based out of Lansing. In February 2013 Third Man Records released "Never More," a 7-inch single recorded live at Third Man in Nashville.
In a June 6, 2013 emusic "10 Bands to Watch" article, writer and guitarist Lenny Kaye wrote his thoughts on the band's "More for the Masses" LP: "Awash in reverb and mood enhancers, the People's Temple create an atmosphere truly "Texas Revisited," embracing trippy International Artists like the Red Kraola and Bubble Puppy, bone-shaking a tambourine, and mumbo-jumboing poetics. Alternately soaring, dislocating, unsettling and uplifting, the album culminates in the phantasmagoria of " Distant Memories," a hymn to the glories found in a millisecond's delay by way of Jane's Addiction. Pass the Kool-Aid," Kaye wrote.
In February 2014 the band released "Musical Garden" on HoZac Records, it received positive reviews from a number of outlets, including Pitchfork Media. In September it released its second full-length of 2014 when it released "Weekends Time" via State Capital Records.