Psychedelic Fiction: The Inspiration Behind the Music
It’s well-known that the psychedelic era in music originated in the 60s, but it’s less known that the musical culture took its cue and inspiration from the writers...
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Writing about The Psychedelic Effect in Films
As Visual Effects (VFX) have evolved over the decades, movie lovers have a chance to witness big blue aliens, giant monsters, and Carrie Fisher on the big screen....
The Pride Of Regina – The Andantes
All cities on the Canadian prairies boasted numerous teenage rock bands throughout the 1960s. They ran the gamut from primitive to almost sophisticated. But most tended to have...
1967 Brit-Psych B-Sides
The mode of the music changed, the walls of the cities shook, rooms hummed harder, ceilings flew away. In his 1965 poem, ‘Who Be Kind To?’, the preeminent...
Tokyo Jazz Joints
Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz culture “Jazz and freedom go hand in hand.” – Thelonious Monk Tokyo Jazz Joints is a documentary photography project which began to...
4 Places That Inspired Psychedelic Films That Are Worth Visiting
The greatest psychedelic films draw their inspiration from the world around us. The stimulating visuals and mind-bending backdrops of some of the most iconic films of all time...
1966 Brit-Psych B-Sides
In this digital age, the phenomenon of the ‘b-side’ is an endangered one. All too often, the recordings which comprised the flip side of even the best selling...
What Can Psilocybin Actually Do for Our Health and General Well-Being?
Centuries and decades had to pass so that we would be able to talk openly about psilocybin. This surprisingly beneficial compound found in certain species of mushrooms has...
The best soundtracks to Psychedelic movies
As psychedelic as you can get! Now, you know our taste in music here at It’s Psychedelic Baby, but do you have any idea what kinds of...
Pink Floyd’s Best Kept Secret: ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ 50 Years On
This week fifty years ago, a semi-famous English group with the strange name of ‘Pink Floyd’ released their second LP: ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’. The release was met...