Psychedelic Yoga: A Story of American Mental Health in the 1960s
Psychedelic Yoga: A Story of American Mental Health in the 1960s By Lucas Richert & Matthew DeCloedt This is a short article about Supple bodies, healthy minds: yoga,...
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“A Coffee House for the Sponge People” The Rise and Fall of The Crypt
Front of Farnam Block, regrettably demolished in 2015, by Imagery Photos, 1990 PH-91-63-29 courtesy Saskatoon Public Library – Local History Room For a brief but glorious five month...
Painter Turns to Hammersmith
Painter Turns to Hammersmith by Brock Silversides Just before Christmas of 1973, an album by the Canadian band Painter hit the North American market like a ton of...
“Pharmacopious” (Part 6) by Jenell Kesler
I looked at my watch, and even though it didn’t say so, it was time to leave. Packing didn’t take long, and as I peered into the top...
Bubble Puppy Psych Del Rio
Flavor Crystals in the Arneson River Theather In the mid to late 1960s, it is indisputable that Austin, Texas was the epicenter of the burgeoning psychedelic music scene...
“We Hear You’re Leaving, That’s OK…”
“We Hear You’re Leaving, That’s OK…” Walter Carl Becker 1950-2017 Steely Dan. Frank Zappa once famously referred to them as “downer surrealism”. I never got that....
Anti-Friends David Ivar Herman Dune and Jeffrey Lewis (part two)
Something unexpected happened in my conversation with David Ivar Herman Dune, when he expressed an admiration for the darkness of Jonathan Richman. Certainly it was true Richman had never...
“Pharmacopious” (Part 5) by Jenell Kesler
A few days later I found myself just off the interstate at the Phillips 66 station watching the last of the giant moths dance in the erie haze...
“Pharmacopious” (Part 4) by Jenell Kesler
A man said “Hi.” I didn’t recognize him, then spun mid-step almost toppling over, realizing he was the guy taking care of my meter. “How’s it going?” I...
Anti-Friends David Ivar Herman Dune and Jeffrey Lewis, Part One: On Bob Dylan
© Jeffrey Lewis I forgot to make mention of the French band Herman Dune in that article, “How I Met Anti-folk”. At first, I thought Herman Dune was...