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...
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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...
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,...
“A Coffee House for the Sponge People” The Rise and Fall of The Crypt
For a brief but glorious five month period in 1970 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) was home to a venue devoted to new and original music…namely the Crypt Coffee House....
“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
In the mid to late 1960s, it is indisputable that Austin, Texas was the epicenter of the burgeoning psychedelic music scene with The 13th Floor Elevators leading the...
“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...