Psychedelia
403 articles
Is Trips Festival Really Necessary?
Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 January 1966
AFTER THREE weekend nights of ear-splitting, head-aching, eye-straining audio-visual bedlam in the Longshoremen's Hall, a collective patronage of 10,000 kicks-seekers should be wondering by now, ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 5 February 1966
New Sounds Fill the Night Air ...
Jefferson Airplane Taking Off...Fast
Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 15 April 1966
INTERVIEWING an airplane is kind of an absurd idea but interviewing the Jefferson Airplane, a fast rising group from San Francisco, verges on ridiculous. It's ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1966
POPULAR RECORDS: PASS ASPIRIN, PLEASE ...
The Beatles, The Byrds, The Velvet Underground: Psychedelics: That's The New Fad
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1966
The Pop movement has become old-hat now. In its place a brand new gimmick has started to sweep American discotheques. ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 18 August 1966
Some Real Flying In the Fillmore ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Airplane Takes Off
Profile by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
IN THIS business you meet so many new groups that they all tend to fade into one long line of starving but hopeful musicians and ...
Fire and Ice, Ltd.: Psychedelic Music — Is It Next?
Report and Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
'Yes!' Says Group With Psych Sound ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 September 1966
Blues-Rock Spectacular ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: San Francisco Bay Rock
Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1966
THE SAN FRANCISCO rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have ...
The Byrds, Lothar and the Hand People: Village Gate, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 7 October 1966
Byrds Fuse Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll and Con Edison Group From Coast Brightens Electronic Entertainment at The Village Gate ...
Pink Floyd: All Saints Church Hall, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 20 October 1966
LAST FRIDAY the Pink Floyd, a new London group, embarked upon their first "happening" — a pop dance incorporating psychedelic effects and mixed media — ...
Kim Fowley, The Mothers Of Invention: Freak Out!
Report and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 22 October 1966
The latest West Coast way of life — rebels with a cause, & their music ...
The Move: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 29 October 1966
PSYCHEDELIC sounds came to London in a new — and explosive — dimension, as the Move continued their Thursday night residency at the Marquee Club ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 December 1966
Otis Redding — Rhythm and Blues Tidal Wave ...
Interview by uncredited writer, World Countdown News, 1967
PLAY MUSIC with Love. Different backgrounds create new flavors. New ideas are always welcome. ...
The Move, Pink Floyd, The Who: The Who, The Move, Pink Floyd: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
Psychedelicamania at Roundhouse ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane: Webster Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 12 January 1967
(RBP Editor's note: this article was extracted from Goldstein's "Pop Eye" column. The opening paragraph refers to the previous item) ...
The Move, Pink Floyd: Who's Psychedelic Now? MM Inquiry by Chris Welch and Nick Jones
Interview by Nick Jones, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967
SPOTLIGHT ON THE PINK FLOYD AND THE MOVE ...
Psychedelic Pop — When The Freaking Out Has To Stop...
Report and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 11 February 1967
AN ATTEMPT AT AN EXPLANATION BY NICK JONES ...
War Between the Generations: "This Thing Can't Be Stopped"
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 11 February 1967
Or Beware The Postage Stamps You Lick! ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 March 1967
SAN FRANCISCO — Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless mother of eight. ...
Hippies take over from the Beatniks
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 4 March 1967
A new youth grouping, the Hippies, has sprung up in San Francisco and promises to spread over America and to Europe. Hippies are still way-out, ...
The Diggers: In Search of George Metesky
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 March 1967
ON A WINTER evening, knots of anxious hippies assembled at San Francisco's Howard Presbyterian Church, overlooking the treelined mall called the Panhandle. Now and then ...
Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Rolling Stones: The Psychedelic Yenta Strikes Again!
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 March 1967
THE LOVIN' Spoonful may soon find their names anathema to the very underground which nurtured them. ...
Pink Floyd: Freaking Out with the Pink Floyd
Report and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 1 April 1967
BEING ASKED to interview the Pink Floyd is an ordeal I would have wished only on my worst enemies. I was shaking like a leaf ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 13 April 1967
A GOOD ALBUM, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound ...
Now it's the big "Be-In": they all go to the park
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 30 April 1967
New Yorkers go gay in the 800 acres they have found right in the heart of town ...
Pills (not THE Pill but Pills for the Mind): Hollywood Grasps a Hot Theme
Report by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 3 May 1967
ONCE HOLLYWOOD shunned controversial subjects for its pictures. Now it has became even bolder than some of the European film-makers. ...
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 6 May 1967
TECHNICOLOUR DREAM STIRS UNDERGROUND ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: California Dreamin'
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 May 1967
AMERICA'S WEST COAST — ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO — IS WHERE IT'S ALL AT NOW. WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? NICK JONES EXPLAINS ...
The Flower Children and How They Grow
Essay by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1967
Richard Goldstein is a young writer with a special view of the Flower Children and their contribution to modern American culture. He has been called ...
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor LSP-3766)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967
Love From An Airplane ...
Pink Floyd: Light Entertainment from the Pink Floyd!
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, June 1967
The Pink Floyd were just another group — until they discovered that light plus sound equalled entertainment. Here they entertain RAVE's pop writer Maureen O'Grady! ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1967
'Hearts' of the Beatles Beat as One on New Disc ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
ONE OF THE hang-ups on the pop scene is that too many groups have been writing "psychedelic" music before they have achieved sufficient insight into ...
Knack, The (UK), The Move: The Move, the Knack: U.F.O., London
Live Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
THE MOVE played last week to the largest crowd U.F.O. has ever held and although judged by normal beat group standards they did a very ...
Moby Grape: Aiming High Up On The Vine
Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 3 June 1967
THE MOBY Grape is a San Francisco rock quintet whose stated objective is to "climb high on the vine". They live in Mill Valley, California, ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol SMAS 2653)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 3 June 1967
Last Respects to Beatles In an Album That Turns on ...
Arthur Brown, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Soft Machine: Love, Beauty, the Fuzz and the UFO
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 June 1967
THE IN CLUBS: CHRIS WELCH takes in the London club scene — beginning with UFO ...
Moby Grape, The Monkees: The Monkees: Headquarters (Colgems); Moby Grape: Moby Grape (Columbia)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 1967
Monkees Upgrade Album Quality ...
Report by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1967
MONTEREY — Thirty thousand people swelled the city of Monterey over the weekend for the first International Festival of Pop Music, held in the outdoor ...
The Seeds: Top Tunes: The Seeds
Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 June 1967
"THE 'HATE march' days are over, now it's love and be loved and flower music expresses this emotion powerfully and beautifully," says Lord Tim Hudson, ...
The Deviants, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine: U.F.O. — in front of what's happening!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 24 June 1967
AS FAR as London is concerned, the hippies' paradise known as U.F.O. — stands for unidentified flying object, the non-own-up official term for flying saucers ...
Fraternity of Man: The Hippie Movement
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 1 July 1967
THE WORD Is Out. The Hippies Are Coming. ...
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1967
The Jefferson Airplane, Soaring on Pop Power ...
Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones, The Who: The Jefferson Airplane Here
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 1967
"WE JUST played and let the music take us instead of us taking the music," said Marty Balin, lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane, talking ...
Pink Floyd: The Pink Floyd: "Even fans don't always understand what we're trying to do"...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 8 July 1967
LUNCHEON WITH two members of the Pink Floyd — Roger Waters and Nick Mason — plus their two managers (Andrew King and Peter Jenner) got ...
Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town
Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 22 July 1967
MUCH HAS been written, and even more said, of the whys and wherefores of the Pink Floyd. ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: Birth of the San Francisco Scene
Overview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
by Martin Balin, leader of the Jefferson Airplane ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
VANILLA FUDGE: 'You Keep Me Hanging On' (Atlantic). Oh! I love it. Oh it's great. I didn't recognise the beginning at first. Yeah, Vanilla Fudge. ...
Hippies: How? Why? What Does It Mean?
Report by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 26 August 1967
SAN FRANCISCO – Five o'clock in the afternoon. The going home traffic already crowding the freeway to a frustrating halt. ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1967
HIS DESK looks impressive. A clean blotter is piled high with correspondence. A vertical file bulges with memos. A calendar and a trash can are ...
The Beatles, Arthur Brown, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine: The Flower Game
Report by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, September 1967
What do flowers mean to you? To the Flower People (the Gentle People, the Beautiful People) they signify love, freedom, goodness, fun and new experiences. ...
The Doors, Jefferson Airplane: Jeffersons, Doors are Tops
Profile by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 2 September 1967
LET ME TELL you about the two groups which are currently the most popular in America: the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Both have been playing ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967
"QUICKLY BECOMING the latest rave" is the kind of statement most groups, especially the unknown ones, would dearly like to hear echoing in their egos. ...
Tomorrow, Keith West: Tomorrow: the pop revolution
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
"FIRST it was Tomorrow, then it was Tomorrow with Keith West, then it was Keith West and Tomorrow, then Keith West and now it's just ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1967
New Album From Bobbie Gentry ...
Jefferson Airplane: Airplane Magic Creeps Up... Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
'My Best Friend'; '3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds'; 'D.C.B.A.25'; 'How Do You Feel'; 'Embryonic Journey'; 'Don't Slip Away'; 'Come Up The Years'; 'Chauffeur ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1967
LIKE THE Beatles themselves, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol) is both enigmatic and brilliant, comprised of so many elements that one hardly knows ...
Donovan, Hearts & Flowers, Jefferson Airplane, Mother Earth: The West Coast And Hippieland
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 October 1967
BACK FROM two weeks in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Back to Detroit where the man on the street still gets uptight seeing long-haired, bearded ...
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 October 1967
SUNDAY'S SAVILLE bill was most groovy, opening with the Fairport Convention who are beginning to find their way, followed by American Tim Rose who was ...
Tomorrow: U.F.O.: Who Killed Flower Power?
Report and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 October 1967
U.F.O. the Flower power mecca has closed. Did it die a natural death — or was it murdered? And if it was... ...
Pink Floyd: His dream girl turned into a hit song!
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Jackie, 31 October 1967
Instant Guide to The Pink Floyd ...
Strawberry Alarm Clock: 'Kids Think Funny Things
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 November 1967
'INCENSE AND Peppermints' conjures up pleasant visions to us all, but for the Strawberry Alarm Clock the visions spell success. ...
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967
NICK JONES SORTS OUT THE NEW U.S. SOUNDS ...
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's (RCA)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 November 1967
Airplane Album to Be Released Friday ...
The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1967
Can't Tell an Album by Its Cover ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 December 1967
Beatles' Astonishing Tour — Old Sound Gone in New Album ...
The Cowsills, Grateful Dead: But is Britain ready for the Grateful Dead?
Profile by Judith Sims, Disc and Music Echo, 9 December 1967
By JUDY SIMS, Disc's new Hollywood reporter ...
Pink Floyd: Hits? The Floyd Couldn't Care Less
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 December 1967
GIVING POP journalists a hard time is the blood sports of groups. It's one of the occupational hazards of the job, as anyone who's ever ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1967
Beatles Back With Another LP ...
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968
CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...
Grateful Dead: Live Sound Of The Grateful Dead
Profile by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968
ONE OF THE most influential groups to emerge from the musically prolific city of San Francisco is the Grateful Dead. Universally recognized as the leading ...
Plastic Penny: Put Scratch On Record
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 January 1968
A PLASTIC penny for your thoughts then, or to be more precise, tuppence-worth in the shape of vocalist Brian Keith and organist Paul Raymond who ...
Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner on After Bathing At Baxter's
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
OUR NEXT album will be called After Bathing At Baxter's. I wrote about five songs on it. I really can't say which one of our ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA Victor LSO-1511)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 4 February 1968
Freedom can be costly ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 February 1968
Boston Sound at Cheetah Nightclub ...
Jefferson Airplane: Up, Up and Away With the Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1968
How old are the people in the group? Grace: Oldest group in the country. Spencer: Between 25 and 30. Manager: Between 23 ...
Grateful Dead: Live Sound Of The Grateful Dead
Profile and Interview by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 27 February 1968
ONE OF THE most influential groups to emerge from the musically prolific city of San Francisco is the Grateful Dead. Universally recognized as the leading ...
The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968
THEIR SATANIC Majesties Request succeeds by taking enormous chances. One's first impressions' are almost entirely negative: (1) it doesn't sound like the Stones; (2) it ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Melodyland, Anaheim CA
Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 14 March 1968
San Francisco Bands Shortchange Anaheim Audience ...
Spirit: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1968
FIVE COMPATIBLE first-rate musicians do not necessarily make a first-rate group, nor does excellent music always make excellent entertainment. ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 1968
Rock Club Opens in Hollywood ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Big Brother: James Gurley Talks to the Sun
Interview by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 29 March 1968
SUN: LET'S TALK some about the old Detroit, before the days of LSD 25. When did you leave Detroit? ...
Jefferson Airplane: Problem Of Egos Makes Jefferson Airplane Dive
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 24 May 1968
Show Lack Of Leadership ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 June 1968
Ballroom Is No Place for A Concert ...
It's a Beautiful Day: New New Sounds
Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 June 1968
BRIGHTEST AND most compelling of the newer local modern music groups, and certainly the one with the most intriguing sounds and name is violinist David ...
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, July 1968
Who's afraid of the big, bad MOVE! RAVE braved the wild men of pop on their own ground and came up with this report. ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1968
AT THEIR best, wthe Grateful Dead are a wondrous group and they were at their best for a weekend dance concert sponsored by Pinnacle at ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1968
THE JEFFERSON Airplane has a fan club in Beverly Hills (P.O. Box 1077, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210), according to a note in its new album, ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1968
Big Brother in Concert at Bowl ...
Jefferson Airplane: A conversation with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968
BOTH MARTY Balin and the Jefferson Airplane are far too well-known to require a lengthy introduction here. I talked with Marty for a couple of ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, 4 October 1968
Janis Joplin (lead voc); Peter Albin (bass, voc); San Andrew (lead & rhm gtr); James Gurley (lead & rhm gtr); David Getz (Drms, voc). ...
Big Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (CBS)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
BIG BROTHER: FRESH MAGIC, CAPTURED LIVE! ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
YUMMY YUMMY: Quicksilver Messenger Service, yet another highly respected San Francisco group, are really too much. We've heard their name ever since the very beginning ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (Warner Bros.)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
EVERYONE'S BEEN talking for so long about the GRATEFUL DEAD and at last, having heard Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros.) we know why — ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1968
Sun Hasn't Set on British Sound ...
The Grass Roots: James Monroe High School, Van Nuys CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Van Nuys Valley News, 8 November 1968
Concerts by Grass Roots Draw Applause, Arrows ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Tyrannosaurus: Poetry And Music
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 9 November 1968
POLYGONAMOUS pop. Let me explain — pop has many sides to it, thus polygonamous. All this stuff that comprises the majority of the charts and ...
Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968
SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros WS1749)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
Jerry Garcia (ld. gtr.); Bob Weir (rhm. gtr.); Ron McKernan (org.); Micky Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (drms. perc.); Tom Constanten (prep, pno.) ...
Soft Machine: The Soft Machine: The Soft Machine (ABC)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
SEVERAL exotic people were sitting on the floor at an Indica Gallery opening in 1966, the tall one with the Dr Strange cape was called ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: Suddenly… Janis Joplin!
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Flip, December 1968
A YEAR AGO, Flip's Hollywood Editor (Carol Deck) and Flip's London Editor (Keith Altham) met at the now legendary Monterey Pop Festival. It was the ...
Jefferson Airplane: A Further Rap With Marty Balin
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969
HERE IS Part Five of our interview with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane. In it, Marty tells us how he feels about music, bands ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Miller Francis, The Great Speckled Bird, 13 January 1969
Yellow Submarine is rapidly on its way to canonization, so I felt that along with unrestrained praise for its animation designer Heinz Edelmann, should go ...
Spirit: The Family That Plays Together (Ode)
Review by Miles, International Times, 14 February 1969
From The Ergot Fields ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1969
James Taylor: Fine Folk Feeling ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 17 April 1969
Wild Choruses 'Lift' a Rock Group ...
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969)
Interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1969
Recorded during the Dead's 1969 peak, Garcia looks back to the early days of the Warlocks, the Acid Tests, goes through the albums to date (including the soon-to-be-released Live/Dead) and expounds on the music.
File format: mp3; file size: 57.6mb, interview length: 1h 02' 57" sound quality: ****
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1969
This is a transcript of Michael's interview with the Grateful Dead mainman. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969
New Sly & Family Stone LP begins where other R&B LP's leave off ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 26 July 1969
INTROSPECTIVE exploration of themes is the general idea on this album from one of America's top underground groups. ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Burnout Sets In
Special Feature by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1969
But I reckon l got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilise ...
Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 1969
GLORIOUSLY RESPLENDENT in crushed velvet and faded Levis and backed by what was possibly the Glenn McKay troupe's most breathtaking light-show since Monterey, Jefferson Airplane, ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Year of The Dead
Report by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969
THE GRATEFUL Dead are on the way up. But whether it be from a growing musical acumen on the part of their audience, a starring ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 22 November 1969
OXFORD GARDENS, just off Ladbroke Grove in deepest West Eleven, is currently the focal point of a community of artists (musicians, painters, poets) who will ...
Mighty Baby: Mighty Baby (Head stereo playable mono. HDLS 6002. 39s. lid.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
MIGHTY BABY comprises five young men who have been playing in various groups for a number of years and who have now combined to produce ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (Warner Bros. 1830)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 December 1969
The Dead Show New Life on Latest Album ...
Quintessence: Notting Hill Gate – a Single, a Group, and a Place
Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 3 January 1970
LONDON WEST Ten is the Grove. It is that part of Notting Hill straddling Ladbroke Grove, where, over the past few years, a whole new ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 26 January 1970
Quicksilver Group Brings New Pianist To Fillmore East ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Does A Quickchange
Retrospective and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Circus, March 1970
ON THE NEW Year's Eve separating 1968 and its successor, the Quicksilver Messenger Service played a farewell concert at Fillmore West. Looking back at the ...
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers (RCA SF 8076)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 March 1970
Up the Volunteers! ...
Grateful Dead: Live Dead (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 14 March 1970
I WASN'T expecting too much from this, having been bored silly by the Dead on their previous three albums. But all the fuss is clarified ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex are in good elf!
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 March 1970
TYRANNOSAURUS REX has taken rather a pasting recently. Trevor Brice of Vanity Fare in Blind Date said of their new album: "I think it's horrible. ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (Warner Bros. WS1830)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, 15 March 1970
THIS ALBUM is the first indication that the Dead are finally ready to make the move long expected of them, a breakthrough in the grey ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Dead on Arrival
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 May 1970
The Grateful Dead fly into Britain ...
Hawkwind: The Hawk: sailing in the face of the wind
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
HAWKWIND ARE the progressive band, who, they say, are too progressive for British progressive clubs, and receive few bookings because of that fact. ...
Stoneground: The Electric Rum-And-Butter Ice-Cream And Melon Slices Test
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 10 September 1970
Update, 2020. Wavy Gravy (born 1936 as Hugh Romney) featured in my piece below, does not just dream dreams and see visions. He lives them. ...
Grateful Dead: An Evening with the Grateful Dead
Report and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1970
WE CHANGE and our changings change, a friend said once. It sounded true, but it seems too that through it all we stay the same. ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1970
Rock Triumvirate Thrills 6000 Fans ...
Notes to the Institute, By Stanley Mouse
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1970
STANLEY MOUSE, better known to poster art lovers as just plain Mouse, has a show of his works at the Detroit Institute of Art. In ...
The Move: Looking On (Fly, FLY 1; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 December 1970
MOVE PACK IN SEVEN ROCKERS FOR FLY DEBUT ...
Twink: Think Pink (Polydor Standard stereo 2343 032; £1.49)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 February 1971
A MOST ODD offering from the boisterous Twink who is known to almost all and sundry as one of the Pink Fairies' two drummers. For ...
Grateful Dead: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 April 1971
Grateful Dead Draws Far-Out Fans ...
Quintessence — sincere, or a fraud?
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
SHIVA IS a Christian Hindu who lives in Notting Hill Gate downstairs from his Guru. He is 22, born in Australia and arrived here two ...
Quintessence: Peace... Love... And Success Without Sell-Out
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 20 November 1971
FOR QUINTESSENCE, 1971 must go down as one of the most successful years in their history – they have been going through a period of ...
Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Bros. K66009. 2-album set, £3.75).
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971
IT'S A SAD but true fact. There are not many people in this country who have had the enviable pleasure of actually seeing THE Great ...
Profile by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2009 note: The odd thing about this (unpublished) fall 1972 thing sent to Phonograph Record Monthly (unassigned) is that co-editor Greg Shaw would – I ...
T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Took Talks! about T.REX
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 15 April 1972
SINCE HE LEFT T. Rex, Steve Took says he's spoken to Marc Bolan just twice. The last time was about three months ago at Boston ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 20 April 1972
"The trouble with a lot of kids who come to our concerts is that they can't see beyond the drugs. They get so ripped that ...
Review by Jeff Walker, Phonograph Record, May 1972
IT'S BEEN an eternity since I've writhed to a record on a physical level, but I still recall fondly those stoned hours spent engrossed in ...
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
HAWKWIND ARE ONE of the very few "Underground" bands to make the big time almost entirely on their own terms, without any real concessions to ...
Various Artists: Nuggets (Elektra)
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, October 1972
1965 Revisited: Lenny Kaye meets the Seeds ...
Various Artists: Nuggets (Elektra)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1972
I LEARNED ABOUT golden oldie collections the hard way. I was all of eleven, and had finally managed to figure out what that noise coming ...
Hawkwind: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by John Pidgeon, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
THE SECOND gig of Hawkwind's Space Ritual tour was at the Queensway Hall, Dunstable, last Thursday. The previous night at King's Lynn — the opener ...
Hawkwind: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 November 1972
ALL ABOARD HAWKWIND'S SPACE RITUAL ...
Hawkwind: Stacia, Happy Amazon of the Cosmic Trailways
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
"SO THERE I was on the planet Saturn dancing naked with my body painted, and this weird craft loaded with strange degenerates landed near me ...
It's a Beautiful Day, Sylvester & the Hot Band: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1973
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY GOES ON A TIME TRIP ...
Review by Chris Rowley, International Times, May 1973
THIS IS THE definitive Hawkwind LP and very definitely their best. Being live it has all the right qualities to bring back memories of twitching ...
Hawkwind: Space Ritual Alive At Liverpool Stadium And Brixton Sundown (United Artists)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1973
WELL, THESE COSMIC tacos ain't about to make you wet yourself, but it's still a fact that, contained on these four sides, are the very ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
THERE SEEMS to be a general reawakening to the 1967 Summer of Love recently. All of England is agog over Star Trek reruns while 600,000 ...
Hawkwind: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 29 November 1973
HAWKWIND BROUGHT their Space Ritual to the Academy of Music Sunday night. They should have left it upstairs with all the other garbage orbiting the ...
Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages audio, 1974
Country Joe talks about being brought up by communist parents, his current musical and political interests, the Paris Sessions album, songwriting, the Beats, jazz and... Bowie!
File format: mp3; file size: 81mb, interview length: 1h 28' 27" sound quality: ***
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan (1974) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1974
This is a transcript of John Pidgeon's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...
Man: This Is The Man Band. In 6 Years They've Had Six Lineups. It Looks Like This One May Do It
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 9 February 1974
TRANSLATED FROM THE HERO'S TONGUE BY CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, WHO'S ABOUT AS WELSH AS A NICE JEWISH BOY CAN GET THESE DAYS... ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974
The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...
Grateful Dead: Lookin' Back: The Grateful Dead
Retrospective by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 27 April 1974
Whatever happened to the Cosmic Dream? Part 45 (13th Hexagram) ...
The Zombies: Time Of The Zombies
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1974
THANKS TO THE SUCCESS of Argent, Colin Blunstone, and the 'Monster Mash', the long-neglected Zombies are again coming to light. London's fluke smash with the ...
Hawkwind: In The Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
DON'T TELL anybody, but yours adoring thinks that he's finally got this bunch sussed. ...
Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard: Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974
THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home ...
Hawkwind: How Hawkwind fell foul of the revenue men
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Chris Charlesworth, exclusively covering Hawkwind's American tour for MM, reports on a major setback for the sonic assassins ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 September 1974
IN 1965 Jac Holzman, then head of Elektra and master of good taste, pulled a young man and his group out of an L.A. club, ...
Gong: Look! There's A Pothead Pixie Arriving
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 26 October 1974
THERE'S A lot of musicians around that are going to be kissing Mike Oldfield's dirty underpants. The success of Tubular Bells has almost certainly uncovered ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...
The Edgar Broughton Band, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd: British Psychedelia: More Zits Than Hitz…
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975
It's dream-time in Compilationsville once again, amigos. This week CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY does his worst to induce EMI into issuing Volume Two in his discocartography ...
John Cipollina, Man, Quicksilver Messenger Service: John Cipollina
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 7 June 1975
JOHN CIPOLLINA, he's the real thing. Smallish, wiry, hair tied back, nicotine stains up to his elbow and the confident loquaciousness of a man who ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (AKA Don Van Vliet) moves in sufficiently mysterious ways for me to believe that Zoot Horn Rollo (aka Bill Harkleroad) may just possibly ...
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975
THE FIRST WORD of this review is "deteriorate." It means to Lose Your Magic. ...
Steve Hillage: On The Banks Of A Fish Dinner
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 2 August 1975
"The fish really get off on it man...it's their whole trip"... New angle on Gong's STEVE HILLAGE – the world's leading exponent of Fish Rock. ...
Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart: Bongo Fury
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 8 November 1975
THE STORY SO far. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975
AND THE GHOST walks once more. ...
Captain Beefheart: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
DON'T BELIEVE WHAT your mother tells you kids, there really is a Legion of Super Heroes. ...
Gong: Imperial College, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
THE HALL was packed. It was the kind of audience that likes to jostle like mad for the first half of the set, blast a ...
The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick: Grace Slick (1976)
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages audio, 1976
Interviewed at the Airplane house in San Francisco, the chanteuse of psychedelia rambles in splendid style on her early days in the Great Society, writing White Rabbit, drugs and drink and much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 77.2mb, total interview length: 1h 24' 21" sound quality: ***
Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Grace Slick: Grace Slick (1976) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's audio interview with Grace. Note that almost all his questions are inaudible on his tape. Listen to the audio ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976
SINCE HE split with The Animals and the Rock 'n' Roll mainstream to home in on the craftsmanship of Randy Newman, Price's career has seen ...
Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976
THE LINEUP CHANGES have been so substantial and the musical direction has altered so drastically since their last album (You), that Gong might have changed ...
Retrospective by Miles, New Musical Express, 15 May 1976
TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Steal Your Face
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 24 July 1976
SURPRISE, SURPRISE. THE new Dead album is coming in for the most monumental panning. Seems that for the past four years (at least) they've been ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976
How Kapt. Kopter kept coming back California, a bona fide genius guitar hero. Who says so? Max Bell says so. ...
Gong, Steve Hillage: Steve Hillage: Hillage Rising
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1976
A former Gongster spills the karmic beans ...
Hawkwind: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
TIGER OPENED to a leaden audience who failed to be moved even by big Nicky Moore, twisting and turning through the vocals like a giant ...
Spirit: If You Value Your Life, On No Account Read This Headline...
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 October 1976
...because if you do you'll have to read the feature which is about RANDY CALIFORNIA of SPIRIT. He's a very far-out person. He says so. ...
Hawkwind: Coventry Theatre, Coventry
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 25 December 1976
IT'S LIKE trying to resurrect the agonies and ecstasies of the Lysergic communion, putting Hawkwind's Robert Calvert on paper, spinning a yarn from the scattered ...
Gong, Steve Hillage: Steve Hillage....Electric Gipsy
Profile and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1977
AS I RECALL, it was the "livin' jukebox" himself, Andy Dunkley, who first assailed my ears with Steve Hillage's album Fish Rising. ...
Patti Smith: Lenny Kaye: New York Nuggets
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
IN ISSUE 68 [of ZigZag], Patti Smith talked about a number of things during an account of the first half of her visit to this ...
Hawkwind: Pulsating Poets of Sturm und Drang: Robert Calvert and Hawkwind
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Album Tracking, July 1977
"ROCK IS THE literature of this generation". Thus spake Robert Calvert, occasional playwright, self-styled poet, songwriter and lead singer with Hawkwind, the weirdest, most ...
The Seeds: The Seeds (Crescendo GNP2023)
Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 23 July 1977
"I'D HIT ya in the jugular/But honey you know I'm lazy…" I won't tell you nuthin' about the band, not even the toothpaste they used, ...
Review by Stephen Demorest, Circus, 4 August 1977
THERE'S NO way you can take rock & roll too seriously after listening to this stuff. Compiled by Lenny Kaye (yes, he's also lead guitarist ...
Gong: UFOs Over The UK '77 — Gong: Gong Live, Etc. (Virgin)
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
Old H*pp**s Never Die — They Just Release Live Albums ...
Marc Bolan, John's Children, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Rock and Roll Heart: Marc Bolan 1947-1977
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977
MARC BOLAN was born on September 30, 1947, in Hackney Hospital, East London, the second son of Sid and Phyllis Feld. ...
Pink Floyd’s Heart Of Darkness: A Crash Course in Pig Latin
Overview by Ira Robbins, Creem, October 1977
IT DIDN'T SEEM like a bad idea at the time I accepted this assignment. Just because Pink Floyd hate the press and won't be interviewed ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Remembrance of Hippies Past
Essay by Jack Basher, Creem, December 1977
"HUH? THE Grateful Dead? Me? A think piece? I haven't thought about them since 1968. Whaddaya mean you'll give me all weekend to think about ...
The Soft Boys, The Brakes: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 4 March 1978
NOT AN evening for those with sensitive eardrums, this. Even these days when volume for its own sake seems to be a pre-requisite of too ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 July 1978
Goodbye To Rock And All That (For Another Year At Least) ...
Profile and Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 September 1978
CHET HELMS was the great visionary of the innocent early days of San Francisco's rock music and hippie scene. ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 November 1978
NOT YER average roots of mystic religion jazz-fusion ...
Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson: Darkness at the edge of your mind...
Profile by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 6 January 1979
...and other remembrances of psychedelic times past and future. ROKY ERICKSON, the Martian Van Morrison, will be visiting your town in "person" next month with ...
Various Artists: Pebbles Vols. 1-4
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 10 November 1979
[To be read in a C&A Paisley shirt and matching tie, black lace-up school shoes and a pair of 16" cuff flared trousers re-cut from ...
Grateful Dead is very much alive
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 16 March 1980
HAIGHT-ASHBURY. The diggers. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Owsley's acid. Family Dog, Acid Tests. The summer of love, San Francisco, wear flowers in your ...
The Sound and Vision of Psychedelia
Overview by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1981
"Okay. You've swallowed the magic cube, downed a cup of organic tea with filigree leaves, and placed the diamond needle on the appropriate sounds. Now ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Rainbow, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 4 April 1981
Dead fans "awake" shocker ...
Robyn Hitchcock: Phantom of Psychedelia
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
RICHARD COOK follows the Robyn Hitchcock guide to transport — physical, mechanical, mental and musical. ...
The Dream Syndicate: Dream Syndicate: Psychedelia Updated
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 19 November 1982
LOS ANGELES — Steve Wynn is getting a little tired of having Dream Syndicate, the LA band for whom he writes, plays guitar and sings, ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Big Brother's Peter Albin (1984)
Interview by Gene Sculatti, Davin Seay, Rock's Backpages audio, 1984
With a little help from bandmate James Gurley, Big Brother's bassist recalls growing up in San Carlos; the scene at 1090 Page Street; meeting his future bandmates; Chet Helms and the Family Dog; Big Brother's debut show at the first Trips Festival; the mutual influence of the San Francisco bands; developing the group's material; the arrivial of Janis Joplin; getting stranded in Chicago and recording the eponymous first album; playing the Monterey Pop Festival; signing with manager Albert Grossman and recording Cheap Thrills...
File format: mp3; file size: 66.4meg, interview length: 1h 09' 09" sound quality: ***
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver's John Cipollina (1984)
Interview by Gene Sculatti, Davin Seay, Rock's Backpages audio, June 1984
Cipollina looks back on his childhood and youth, falling in love with the electric guitar and starting his first bands; meeting Dino Valenti and the formation of Quicksilver Messenger Service; the emergence of hippies, and the early Fillmore scene; hanging out with the Charlatans; signing to Capitol, and their first recordings; the evolution of psychedelic rock, and the brotherhood of the San Francisco bands.
File format: mp3; file size: 91.5mb, interview length: 1h 35' 21" sound quality: ***
Interview by Martin Aston, Melody Maker, 18 May 1985
Drugs? Paisley shirts? Forget it, say L.A.'s RAIN PARADE, currently in Britain courtesy of friendly Island Records. Martin Aston wades through the beads and patchouli ...
Prince: Around The World In A Day
Review by Max Bell, The Times, 1 June 1985
PRINCE, THE CURRENT court jester of American hippy soul, once wrote a song called 'Ronnie, Talk To Russia', a good message number that indicated this ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 1 June 1985
THE ONLY kind of sex I can imagine performing to the exquisite, perfumed garden noise of Rain Parade is tender. Maybe this is why Matt ...
Robyn Hitchcock, Rain Parade: The Rain Parade, Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians: Clarendon, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 June 1985
SOAK IT UP! ...
The Seeds: Where Are They Now: Sky Saxon
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 12 September 1985
The leader of the Seeds was 'Pushin' Too Hard' in the Sixties; now he'd into 'flower heaven power'. ...
Sky Saxon: The View From The Haze
Profile and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1986
BEHIND THE door of the aging, cracker-box Hollywood apartment sits a velvet-covered table strewn with rose petals. Two white candles cast flickering shadows over plates ...
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, David Quantick, New Musical Express, 5 September 1987
SPORTS DAY IN HELL ...
Report by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 14 September 1987
SAN FRANCISCO – The first cosmic occurrence was before noon, when Jesse Colin Young sang the last chorus of 'Get Together'. He let the crowd ...
The Dukes of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot (Geffen)
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 22 October 1987
THE DUKES of Stratosphear are XTC's psychedelic alter ego; XTC first donned this paisley disguise for the import-only psychedelic psendup 25 O'Clock. That album was ...
The Shamen: Shamen Scandal: Angus At The Fungus
Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 20 February 1988
The hip hop psychedelia of Aberdeen's THE SHAMEN probably has its roots in the mushrooms that grow in abundance along the North East coast. ROBIN GIBSON sips ...
Spacemen 3, the Wishing Stones, the Pop Icons, the Low Gods: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 9 April 1988
ENTERING DINGWALLS tonight is a similar experience to falling through Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole and coming out in 1963. As the evening progresses, so does ...
The Dave Howard Singers, Spacemen 3: Spacemen 3, The Dave Howard Singers: University of London Union
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 November 1988
THE PROBLEM with most purveyors of ersatz electronic soul is they invariably forget the random element while building citadels of software perfect pop. Dave Howard ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, August 1990
UNCLE FRANK'S EXTENSIVE reissues programme continues apace with eight more blasts from various bits of his past. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1990
"My eyes were opened. There's a new world and a new society and a new spirit." ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 30 September 1990
THIS SUMMER, The Grid released 'Floatation', a single that perfectly captured the New Age mood that has pervaded club culture in 1990. 'Floatation' combined deep ...
Grateful Dead: Bring Out Your Dead
Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, November 1990
Hey, man. Whatever happened to the summer of love? It’s taking dedication a bit far when in a year, three fans die at Grateful Dead ...
Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson: I Walked With a Zombie
Retrospective and Interview by John Morthland, L.A. Weekly, 22 November 1990
Roky Erickson, at ultra-high frequency ...
Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1991
OUTSIDE THE Grugahalle, a monstrous concert erection in Essen, Germany, a bearded fellow bearing more than a passing resemblance to the young Charles Manson is ...
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, February 1991
The stomping ground for much of the action that took place during the "Psychedelic '60s" is usually considered to be San Francisco, where bands such ...
Grateful Dead: Poster Artist Rick Griffin Dies
Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1991
RICK GRIFFIN, one of the creators of the psychedelic poster art that originated in San Francisco during the mid-Sixties, died on August 17th of severe ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, November 1991
JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS, to quote Uncle Frank: yet another record label, and eight more Zappa albums hot on the heels of his two ...
Dazed and Infused: The Summer of Love
Retrospective by Miles, Vox, August 1992
"You had to be there" Barry Miles travels back in time. IT'S 25 years since the Summer of Love freaked its way into the ...
13th Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere
Review by Mat Snow, Q, 1993
THE SECOND INSTALMENT of Decal's noble policy of reissuing all four 13th Floor Elevators albums finds the influence of San Francisco (whose Avalon Ballroom they ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane Chronicles: Marty Balin
Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Relix, April 1993
READING THE following interview, one might get a sense that there are two Marty Balins. ...
Donovan: Sunshine Superman/Mellow Yellow/The Hurdy Gurdy Man/Barabajagal
Review by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, January 1995
HOW WAS IT that our "Celtic" hippie friend put it to Queen magazine in 1967? Oh, yes: "Pop is the perfect religious vehicle. It's as ...
Book Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, March 1995
IMAGINE BEING able to skip through time and witness historv first-hand. On my own list of happening temporal destinations would be McGoo's Pizza Parlour in ...
The Zombies: Time Of The Zombies
Retrospective and Interview by Robin Platts, Goldmine, 14 April 1995
IT WAS JUST for fun, really. They weren't planning on becoming pop stars, yet the Zombies came close to reaching the top of the American ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, June 1995
Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...
Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators: His Own Private Realm: Roky Erickson
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, June 1995
Come with us now to the home of erstwhile 13th Floor Elevator Roky Erickson: a little shack on the outskirts of reality. And marvel how, ...
Jethro Tull: Roots Before Branches (Chrysalis)
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, October 1995
Flutes in rock. Hmmm. Thijs Van Leer of Focus. Does James Galway's epochal rendition of Annie's Song count? It's really just Ian Anderson, isn't it ...
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: The Last Great American Adventurer: Jerome John Garcia 1942-1995
Obituary by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1995
On August 9, Jerry Garcia, leader of the Grateful Dead, the most successful live group of all time, died in a Californian rehab center. To ...
Grateful Dead, John Oswald: John Oswald/The Grateful Dead: GrayFolded (Swell/Artifact S/A1969-1996)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 12 October 1995
SOME DEADHEADS are already calling this the best Grateful Dead record ever; it's certainly the most monumental tombstone imaginable for Jerry Garcia, an utterly convincing ...
Grateful Dead, John Oswald: John Oswald: Rites of the Living Dead
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, December 1995
Following the death of Jerry Garcia, John Oswald's Grayfolded, a digital reworking of the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star', has assumed new, ghostly qualities. ...
Profile and Interview by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, January 1996
ROLL THE NAME around your mind a while and try to imagine what they sound like, and whatever you come up with I guarantee you'll ...
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, February 1996
COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH are doomed to be best remembered for that old crowd-pleaser they churned out at Woodstock in August, 1969. No matter ...
Jefferson Airplane: Still a Bumpy Ride
Report by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 February 1996
Jefferson Airplane members not overjoyed about induction into Rock Hall of Fame ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Ptolemaic Terrascope, April 1996
GARY RAMON is a musician who takes his psychedelia seriously. As well as being the guitarist and front-man for Sun Dial he also finds time ...
The Electric Prunes: 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)'
Retrospective and Interview by Don Waller, MOJO, January 1997
From the "mind-expanding" opening to the screaming-droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream ...
Kula Shaker: Abandon dope all ye who entertain
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 20 January 1997
Toff rockers Kula Shaker got away with telling fans to take lots of drugs; East 17's Essex boy Brian Harvey was crucified. That's pop, says ...
The Beatles: The Sound of Acid
Overview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 31 January 1997
Hey man — it's time to beat that cosmic tabla and slap on a droning tape loop. Drug-infused psychedelia, says Jon Savage, never went away ...
Obituary by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, March 1997
SO, HE'S GONE THEN. If Nick hadn't metaphorically picked me up by the scruff of the neck and encouraged me to start writing the interviews ...
Pink Floyd: Alexandra Palace 1967: Syd Barrett Wasn’t Feeling At All Well...
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, April 1997
He was seeing things that others only eyed in kaleidoscopes. But he was aware that Roger Waters was dragging him on-stage; dawn was breaking and ...
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, June 1997
Ben Edmonds finds out what happened when acid hit blue-collar America. WHEN POET JOHN SINCLAIR was released from the Detroit House of Correction in August ...
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, June 1997
IT COULD BE SAID THAT THE POSTER ART WAS THE best thing that ever happened to psychedelic music. As concert posters they didn’t just advertise ...
Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics
Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 1997
Back by public demand, and even more mind-expanding, Jon Savage takes a trip through psychedelia’s golden years to compile the ultimate six-hour flashback. ...
The Summer of Love's Counterculture Butterflies
Overview by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 1997
Who were they? Where are they now? ...
Book Excerpt by Richie Unterberger, 'Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll' (Backbeat), 1998
IT WAS LATE 1966, and Fontana Records had assembled several dozen members of the press to hear the label's newest and most adventurous act at ...
Blossom Toes: "Get in there and experiment!": Blossom Toes: We Are Ever So Clean
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, February 1998
Thus the instructions to four young men as they were handed the keys to a King's Road '60s communal pad… ...
Spiritualized: Stars In His Eyes
Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, August 1998
Spiritualized are aiming higher than the sun. Ladies and gentlemen, they'll soon be floating in space as one of Britain's biggest bands ...
Grateful Dead: Ken Kesey: The prank outsider
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 August 1998
In the Sixties the Beatles stitched him up. But chemically challenged cult novelist Ken Kesey still loves London in the summer. MAX BELL meets the ...
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, September 1998
Groundbreaking garage-punk compilation expanded into a 4-CD box: over 100 big hits, hip misses, influential tracks, cultural oddities and sonic abominations. ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 1998
Every month we play an artist or musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge ...
Skip Spence : Alexander Spence: Oar (Sundazed)
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
THE PASSING OF TIME has edged some psych esoterica into the mainstream, and Oar is a shining example. At once individual confession, generational narrative, and ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
KAK'S ONE and only album – released in the US during January 1969 – captures the Bay Area boom at its furthest outreach. ...
The Olivia Tremor Control: Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage (Blue Rose/ V2)
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
THE GOOD NEWS is that this double album maintains the high quality of OTC's Dusk At Cubist Castle, which updated the methodology of classic psychedelia ...
Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Top Ten Psychedelic Records (circa 1966)
Guide by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, May 1999
WITH EVERY waking hour bringing yet another ill-advised Revival of sorts to our virtual doorsteps – today Slinkies, tomorrow Saturday Night Fever – I thought ...
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999
In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...
Grateful Dead: Kesey Rides Again
Report by Gavin Martin, The Independent, 9 August 1999
THE MAGIC BUS pulls up at the Peace Monument late on Friday afternoon, bringing a blaze of colour and a blast of noise to the ...
Chad & Jeremy: The Chad and Jeremy Story
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 2000
WHEN CHAD AND JEREMY were first invited to re-group, back in 1986 for the following year's British Invasion II tour, their first response was, "Hmmm, ...
Grateful Dead, Phish: The Grateful Dead: So Many Roads (1965–1995)/Phish: Hampton Comes Alive
Review by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 26 April 2000
ONE MORE NEGATIVE remark about hippies or the Grateful Dead and you punk-rock bullies will have petunias shoved down your throats. ...
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 16: Fillmore Auditorium 11/8/69 (Grateful Dead GD4036 3XCD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
ALTHOUGH GRATEFUL Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala died last year, his guiding hand still pushes along the project that carries his name. That Grateful Dead ...
Happy to be a Part of the Industry of Human Happiness: The Trans-Continental Beat of the 1960s
Sleeve notes by Alec Palao, Nuggets II (Rhino Records), 2001
SO, AS WE’RE FREQUENTLY TOLD, the world has now shrunk to the size of a soccer ball. The internet has eliminated traditional terrestrial boundaries of ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Mark Andes, b. 19 February 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (replaced by Al Staehely, b. Texas); Randy California, b. Randolph Craig Woolfe, 20 February 1951, Los ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
James Lowe, b. San Luis Obispo, California, USA; Mark Tulin, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ken Williams, b. Long Beach, California; Preston Ritter, b. Stockton, California; Weasel ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Sky Saxon, b. Richard Marsh; Daryl Hooper; Jon Savage; Rick Andridge ...
Del Shannon: Buried Treasure: Del Shannon's Home And Away
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2001
US pop singer hits London, meets Andrew Oldham, makes psych classic. ...
The Soft Boys: Let's hear it for the boys
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Webb, The Independent, 13 April 2001
Cambridge, 1977: the unlikely birthplace of one of the UK's most influential bands. But by 1981 they were gone. Whatever happened to the Soft Boys, ...
The Electric Prunes: Too Much To Dream
Retrospective by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 15 June 2001
FROM THE "mind-expanding" flight of the 2,000-pound bumblebee opening to the liquid, screaming, droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, the Electric ...
Various: Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, July 2001
WITHIN THE rabid isolationism of the Bush regime, this is a remarkably generous statement: a monster collection aimed at the American market featuring aver a ...
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 21 and Vol. 22 & View from the Vault II
Review by Ken Hunt, The Wire, August 2001
THE TWO latest Dick's Picks documents present live Grateful Dead shows from February 1968 (Vol. 22) and November 85 (Vol. 21), while the second in the ...
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, November 2001
THERE ARE winners and losers in the shifting sands of rock fashion and, much as it hurts to write it, Jefferson Airplane seem like losers. ...
Profile and Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, November 2001
Phish x Primus + Police = Oysterhead. What's that smell? ...
Acid Mothers Temple: The Spitz, London
Live Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, December 2001
Japan's self-styled "freak-out group for the 21 st century" prompt synaptic meltdown in east London. ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Interview by Archie Patterson, Eurock, 2002
ONE OF MY EARLIEST Euro-rock discoveries was the Danish band Savage Rose. Their first album to be released in the USA was In The Plain, ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...
Arthur Lee, Love: Arthur Lee: Summer of Love
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 26 May 2002
He discovered the Doors, nurtured Jimi Hendrix and fronted legendary '60s band Love. Now, after six years in prison, Lee is back on the road ...
Arthur Lee: The Singing Cowboy
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, August 2002
ARTHUR LEE IS rock's almost-ran, never-was but could have been. A musical chameleon whose mythical personae have imprinted themselves on music history. He was the ...
The Pink Fairies: Neverneverland;What A Bunch Of Sweeties; Kings Of Oblivion
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, August 2002
First three albums by heroes of early '70s UK underground. ...
Book Review by Will Hermes, The New York Times, 25 August 2002
Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead ...
The Nazz: Open Our Eyes – The Anthology
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Uncut, February 2003
Comprehensive collection of Philly pop-soul boys, fronted by Todd Rundgren, who looked to Swinging London for inspiration and then blew up. ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Summer Of Haight
Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, April 2003
In January 1967, Jefferson Airplane were all set for take-off. But within months their dream was crumbling. Jeff Tamarkin on the destructive undercurrent to the ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 24 June 2003
THEY HAD A QUESTION about psychedelic California bands on University Challenge the other night, but the Seeds didn't get a mention. About all anybody can ...
Spacemen 3: Medicine Show: The Spacemen 3 fill out another Perfect Prescription
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Seattle Weekly, 25 June 2003
RUGBY, ENGLAND, SPRING ’87: Four scruffy twentysomethings are sprawled across secondhand bed mattresses arranged at asymmetrical angles on the floor of VHF Studios. The ...
Arthur Lee, Love: Love with Arthur Lee: House of Blues, Los Angeles
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 19 August 2003
SOMETHING STARDUST and sunshine had characterized those days of flowers and civil unrest in the western canyons of America's other neverland of dreams, Los Angeles. ...
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Sleep/Holiday
Review by Pete Paphides, The Word, October 2003
Wales has never sounded so far away or magical ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead
Book Excerpt by Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited...', 2004
"Frenesi took her hand away from Flash's and they all got back to business, the past, a skip tracer with an obsessional gleam in its ...
Kaleidoscope: The Rise and Fall of the Neoprene Lizards: The Kaleidoscope Story
Retrospective and Interview by David Biasotti, pulsatingdream.com, 2004
I: "It was great music to float on while in the thrall of cannabis." ...
Hawkwind: The Saga of Hawkwind
Book Excerpt by Carol Clerk, Omnibus Press, 2004
Emerging from the hippie heartland of London's Ladbroke Grove in 1969, Hawkwind invented space-rock with a potent, psychedelic mixture of jamming blues, electronica and lights. ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Carling Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2004
OLD FAN OR NEW, it's a live show that blows your mind. Gaily-coloured balloons the size of space-hoppers assault and caress you from every direction. ...
Kim Fowley, Tomorrow, Keith West: A Teenage Opera: Testing… Testing…
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2004
Brainchild of German Phil Spector wannabe Mark Wirtz and UK psych hopefuls Tomorrow, A Teenage Opera promised to be the grandest psychedelic production of the ...
Arthur Brown, Mick Farren, The Move, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Tomorrow: We Have Lift Off!
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
The Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson: Smile? Don't mind if I do…
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, March 2004
It was due in January 1967. But the Beach Boys' Smile LP was shelved when its creator Brian Wilson refused to finish it. Now he ...
Review and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2004
1975 double concept LP from Randy California's hippie-era West Coast legends — available for the first time on CD with original vinyl's full gatefold artwork. ...
Kaleidoscope: Pulsating Dream – The Epic Recordings (Acadia/Evangeline)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2004
The complete ‘66-’70 works of insanely eclectic LA ensemble beloved of Jimmy Page. ...
The United States Of America: The United States Of America (Sundazed)
Review by Pete Paphides, MOJO, August 2004
James Coburn dug their insurrectionary space rock; Paul Simon hated it; no one else cared until decades later. An era-defining underground album resurfaces with 10 extra ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: SMiLE When Your Heart Is Breaking: Brian Wilson
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, October 2004
"Come about hard and joinThe young and often spring you gaveI heard the wordWonderful thingA children's song" ('Surf’s Up') ...
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 1 December 2004
DETROIT, CIRCA 1969: The house lights of the packed Casino Royale dim. The club's vibe is electric, the fog of cigarette and reefer smoke thicker ...
Comets On Fire, Julian Cope: Comets On Fire/Julian Cope: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, February 2005
EVEN THOUGH THE rock star's wearing denim jeans, a strong waft of leather-kekkedness has wandered idly to Seats 2 & 3, Row E, Upper Stalls. ...
Jefferson Airplane: Obituary: Spencer Dryden
Obituary by Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 10 February 2005
Jefferson Airplane's inventive drummer was one of the best of the psychedelic era ...
The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Pink Floyd: The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
The Chocolate Watchband: Melts In Your Brain Not On Your Wrist
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 2005
At last! The complete works of the legendary San Franciscan psych-punkers: Jon Savage satisfies his sweet tooth. ...
Animal Collective, Ariel Pink: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink: Faun fables
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, July 2005
Drawing on psychedelia's childlike bliss and Techno's electronic transmutations, Animal Collective have developed a uniquely woozy soundworld, winning over audiences with their shamanistic live presence. ...
Circulus, The Incredible String Band: Nowt so queer as acid folk
Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 15 July 2005
In a parallel world alongside mainstream rock lies a folk revival. Pete Paphides enters the zone ...
The Seeds: Sky Saxon & The Seeds: The Cluny, Newcastle
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, October 2005
IF YOU'VE EVER seen the early Jack Nicholson film Psych Out (1968), you'll remember the acid trip scene in the graveyard, where a funeral procession ...
Essay by Jim Irvin, MOJO, Summer 2005
IT WAS APRIL 1967, the morning after The Beatles had completed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Zombies walked into Abbey Road Studios ...
Iain McIntyre: Tomorrow is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
Book Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), 2006
IAIN MCINTYRE'S first book, 2004's Wild About You!, was unfortunately a very limited edition, published by – of all people – the Community Radio Federation ...
Judy Henske, Jerry Yester: Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: Farewell Aldebaran (Radioactive)
Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, January 2006
AMONG THE ODDITIES released on Frank Zappa's Straight label at the end of the '60s, none was more exotic than the one conceived by a ...
Retrospective by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 10 February 2006
"THEY LOOKED LIKE three angels," the singer and composer Caetano Veloso wrote of his first sight of the members of Os Mutantes, a young rock ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 11 July 2006
Former lead singer of Pink Floyd whose drug-induced breakdown and reclusive retirement created a musical legend ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett, 1946-2006
Obituary by Robert Webb, The Independent, 12 July 2006
Reclusive co-founder of Pink Floyd ...
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: Syd Barrett
Obituary by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 2006
This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, October 2006
They were there at the beginning. Now a 4-CD box set spans 1964-1990 in yet another career overview, Gene-Clark-heavy this time, with five unreleased tracks ...
Status Quo: Whatever You Want (To Eat): Having Lunch With Status Quo
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, December 2006
Note: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in The Word. ...
Richard Brautigan, Mad River: Just Like a Poem: Richard Brautigan and Mad River
Retrospective and Interview by David Biasotti, Richard Brautigan (ed. John F. Barber), McFarland, 2007
THOUGH THEY RECORDED two albums for Capitol Records, Mad River remains one of the least-documented and enigmatic Bay Area bands of the late '60s. ...
Gong, Steve Hillage: Steve Hillage: Woggle Head
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 14 January 2007
Steve Hillage was a prime groover on the Canterbury psychedelic scene of the Seventies and still makes far-out trance music today. So why do people ...
Fern Knight: Music For Witches And Alchemists
Review by Mike Barnes, The Wire, February 2007
ON FIRST LISTENING, Music For Witches And Alchemists sounds like a richly melodic, if somewhat lightweight, set occupying a point in the musical spectrum somewhere ...
The Electric Prunes: California Dreamin': The Electric Prunes: Too Much To Dream (Rhino) ***
Review and Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, April 2007
They trod an awkward career path, says Mark Paytress, but The Electric Prunes had moments of proto-psych wizardry. ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Uncut, May 2007
How a sample reunited west London's wyrd electric-folk troubadours... ...
Summer of Love: 40 Years Later
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2007
1967: The stuff that myths are made of ...
Roky Erickson: The Man Who Went Too High: Roky Erickson
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 8 June 2007
THE MOST IMPROBABLE of rock comebacks began on the night of March 19, 2005 at an Austin, Texas restaurant called Threadgill's. Every year, the eatery ...
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Sundazed Music Inc., 14 July 2007
"There was a definite shock value in hearing the Grape open up with a sound that you did not so much hear as feel in ...
Love's Forever Changes Revisited
Retrospective by Martin Aston, MOJO, August 2007
"LOVE WAS THE breakthrough band of the '60s," began journalist Phil Gallo's liner notes to the 1995 box set Love Story 1966-72. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, Summer 2007
THE RELEASE of Big Brother And The Holding Company's self-titled debut album in the summer of 1967 should have been a highwater mark in both ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, Summer 2007
WE ARE GETTING ahead of ourselves slightly, but we are in New York at the tail end of 1967, late December in the Village, in ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, Summer 2007
RELEASED AT the tail end of the summer of love, 'A Hole In My Shoe' was hailed by NME as "an incredible disc which you ...
The Misunderstood: Rich Brown and Mike Stax: Like, Misunderstood
Book Review by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, January 2008
THE MISUNDERSTOOD were one of the most innovative and enigmatic bands of the '60s and one of the psychedelic era’s best loved groups. ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, February 2008
Second full album as Vancouver heavy psychers turn up the heat with their dark magick. ...
Rain Parade: Remembering the Rain Parade
Retrospective by Alan McGee, The Guardian, 12 May 2008
JUST RECENTLY I've been taken back to the Paisley Underground scene of the early '80s and a band whose music still speaks to me today. ...
Mad River: The Mad River Story
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Shindig, August 2008
AT THE CLOSE of the '60s, the power of America's rock bible Rolling Stone was immense. Entire careers hinged on the opinions of the magazine's ...
Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine, The Wilde Flowers: Kevin Ayers: An Interview
Interview by Mike Barnes, unpublished, Fall 2008
2013 NOTE: The interview was ostensibly for the "Hello/Goodbye" feature in MOJO 184 (March 2009), on Ayers's time in Soft Machine, but was opened out ...
The Incredible String Band: Tricks of the Senses
Review by Rob Young, Uncut, February 2009
Two CDs of lost sounds from the Scottish folk starsailors. ...
Chris Darrow, Kaleidoscope: Chris Darrow's Kaleidoscopic Vision
Profile and Interview by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 25 February 2009
HE HAS AN upcoming tribute concert and box-set release and yet the question many will ask is, "Who is Chris Darrow?" ...
13th Floor Elevators: Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men
Review and Interview by Mick Houghton, Uncut, March 2009
EVEN IF THEIR music had not been great, the bizarre history of the 13th Floor Elevators would have earned the band a place in rock ...
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, October 2009
The latest in the Nuggets franchise documents the most fertile few years in southern Californian music history, taking in curios, weirdos, hipsters, freaks and a ...
Roky Erickson: He has never been here before …
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 28 October 2009
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE certainly other candidates, the man born Roger Kynard Erickson 62 years ago in Dallas, Texas, just might be the greatest rock 'n' ...
Review by Steve Roeser, hollywoodconcerts.com, December 2009
EVEN BEFORE KIM FOWLEY (born 1939, Hollywood, California) hosted a weekly four-hour music program on satellite radio, a lot of people already knew his name, ...
Rain Parade: Unsung Heroes: The Rain Parade
Retrospective by Terry Staunton, Uncut, February 2010
Pioneers of LA's '80s "Paisley Underground" — it's warring psych revivalists the Roback brothers! ...
Syd Arthur: New Band of the Week: Syd Arthur
Report by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 15 February 2010
These funky folkies are sons and heirs of those Canterbury musicians who did whimsical things with psychedelic and progressive rock. ...
Primal Scream: Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream
Retrospective and Interview by James Brown, Sabotage Times, 23 February 2010
Primal Scream are the last great band of the original Creation Records roster, still rocking on, un-interrupted by break-ups or break-downs. James Brown gets down ...
Review by Johnny Sharp, bbc.co.uk, 13 April 2010
After a debut of sing-along hits, the duo takes refuge in druggy experimentalism. ...
MGMT: Inheritors of the Head-expanding Hippie Ethos
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 25 June 2010
FEW OF THE BANDS playing Glastonbury's 40th anniversary this weekend fit the consciousness-expanding ethic of the festival at its best as well as MGMT. They ...
Review by Bill Holdship, MOJO, July 2010
THIS IS one of those wonderful, unexpected releases that many people once believed could never exist. ...
The Dream Syndicate: Unsung Heroes: The Dream Syndicate
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2010
Bad medicine! The dark lords of the Paisley Underground revisited. ...
Pink Floyd: Vinyl Icon: Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, September 2010
IT'S WRIT large in pop history that The Beatles spent the spring of 1967 recording their classic Sgt Pepper album in EMI's Abbey Road Studio ...
Gong: The Gong Remains The Same
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Record Collector, October 2010
Jack Barron celebrates the 40-year celestial trip of "Europe's Grateful Dead". ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 3 February 2011
Cardiacs singer Tim Smith suffered a heart attack and a paralysing stroke two years ago, and musicians are now flocking to cover his strange, unique ...
Flaming Lips: Flaming good time: Lips lock on psychedelia rock
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, Boston Herald, 24 July 2011
FEW THINGS ARE certain in life, but this is: At some point Wednesday during the Flaming Lips concert at Bank of America Pavilion, singer Wayne ...
Shin Joong-hyun: South Korea's psychedelic mimic turned master
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 15 September 2011
He learned American pop via a hand-built radio, became a psychedelic pop star in his own right, then was tortured by South Korea's dictatorship. Meet ...
Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: We need to talk about... Skip Spence: Oar in dark water
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 5 March 2012
SYD BARRETT of Pink Floyd and Roky Erickson of Thirteenth Floor Elevators don't own the category of "mad '60s acid casualty" exclusively. ...
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 13 March 2012
A BOON FOR classic-rock fans in recent years has been an increased activity in vault-mining, as record labels are discovering, polishing up, and releasing a ...
Levitation: "Don't Question Everything": Levitation's Need For Not Revisited
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 May 2012
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." Wyndham Wallace celebrates a forgotten classic 20 years ...
The Seeds: 22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham
Memoir by Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012
STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012
It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace/Journeys/Psychedelic Pill/live in Seattle
Review by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, 12 November 2012
SIX YEARS AGO, Neil Young brought his CSN buddies through town imploring the country to impeach the president for lying. This week he began the ...
The Gift of Music: Anthologies to please
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 14 November 2012
WHY ARE multi-disc collections of old music still valuable in an era of downloads retrieved from nearly boundless clouds? Because these box sets and greatest-hit ...
Review by Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, Fall 2012
Superbly psychedelic second set with a very British-sounding soul. ...
The Electric Prunes: The Complete Reprise Singles
Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, 15 February 2013
IT SAYS SOMETHING about how wacked-out the psychedelic 1960s were that not only could there be a rock band with the ridiculous name of the ...
Obituary by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 20 February 2013
Founder member of Soft Machine and a key figure in British psychedelic rock. ...
Patrick Lundborg: Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life
Book Review by Byron Coley, Forced Exposure, April 2013
PATRICK LUNDBORG is a dapper Swedish record collector and culture writer with a penchant for the American underground scene. He's done a few quite good ...
The Flaming Lips: The MOJO Interview: Wayne Coyne
Interview by Tom Doyle, MOJO, April 2013
He sang of giraffes and jelly while wreaking freaky panto mayhem. But at 52 has reality bitten the Flaming Lips' ringmaster? "This is the first ...
Jefferson Airplane: Tripping With Jorma Kaukonen At The Psylodelic Gallery
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 28 June 2013
Given that the Jefferson Airplane and Tuna are two of the mightiest hippie bands to emerge from the '60s, it made sense that Jorma Kaukonen ...
Mick Farren: You Say You Want A Revolution: Mick Farren Looks Back
Book Excerpt by Paul Moody, 'Search For The Lost Chord', July 2013
RBP contributor Paul Moody interviewed Mick earlier this year while researching his new book Search For The Lost Chord: Looking For The Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll. We're ...
Pond (Australia): Pond: Hobo Rocket
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 1 August 2013
INCLUDING TWO CURRENT MEMBERS of Tame Impala and one ex-member in Nick Allbrook, Aussie band Pond are a slightly jokier but no less productive relation ...
Chrome: Half Machine From The Sun (King of Spades)
Review by Frances Morgan, The Wire, January 2014
CHROME's Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves were released in 1978 and 1979, which makes them contemporaries of Mad Max, Philip K Dick's VALIS, ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 25 February 2014
THEY MAY HAIL from San Francisco, but trance-rockers Wooden Shjips have clearly left their hearts elsewhere — in the mid-'70s Germany of Krautrockers Neu! and ...
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 22 April 2014
FROM THE VERY FIRST 'Sweat Leaf'-channeling fuzz riff, there's no question what's being "dropped" on this latest dispatch from prolific San Francisco garage-psych veterans Thee ...
Randy California, Spirit: California Dreaming: The Wild and Tragic Story of Spirit
Retrospective by Max Bell, Classic Rock, 18 June 2014
Led by mercurial guitarist Randy California, Spirit were buddies of Jimi Hendrix and praised by Led Zeppelin. But their promise would collapse in blur of ...
Review by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), 16 October 2014
Jangly vets change line-up but maintain that certain something quite peculiar. ...
The Church's Steve Kilbey (2015)
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 2015
The veteran Australian rocker looks right back to the formation of the band; the success of 'The Unguarded Moment'; being forced to tour with Duran Duran; endless struggles with record companies; being a confontational individual; the albums Starfish and Priest=Aura; and the Church today.
File format: mp3; file size: 47.1mb, interview length: 51' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Django Django: The Wardrobe, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 February 2015
DJANGO DJANGO have always favoured doing things with a twist. Their eponymous debut was hailed for its innovative, modern take on psychedelia, offering a beaty ...
Daevid Allen, Gong, Soft Machine: Daevid Allen, 1938-2015
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 13 March 2015
Founder member of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong. ...
Prince's Around the World in a Day at 30
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 22 April 2015
IN THE SPRING of 1985, there were two types of Prince fans – those who boarded the violet-hued bandwagon years before Purple Rain (both the ...
Tame Impala's Danceable New Album Currents: Track By Track First Listen Review
Review by John Calvert, New Musical Express, 23 June 2015
"I REALISED we'd never seen people dancing to our music," Tame Impala's Kevin Parker told NME earlier this year. ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 9 July 2015
THE EAGERLY-AWAITED follow-up to 2012's breakthrough Lonerism throws something of a curve-ball. Kevin Parker's recent alliances with Todd Rundgren and fellow Aussie psych-rockers Pond suggested ...
Tame Impala: Inside the mind of a psych-pop shaman
Interview by John Calvert, New Musical Express, 14 July 2015
"I THINK five years ago," says Kevin Parker, the man who to all intents and purposes is Tame Impala, "the thought of sitting in a ...
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: Farewell Aldebaran (Omnivore)
Review by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 28 August 2016
The mystical Farewell Aldebaran gets its first-ever legal reissue. ...
Escape from Sanity: An Englishman in San Francisco in 1967
Memoir by Andrew Tyler, unpublished, October 2016
NOTE: This is an excerpt from an as-yet unpublished memoir by the former Disc/NME writer and Animal Aid activist, who very sadly died on 28 ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, October 2016
2016 MARKS 70 years since Syd Barrett entered this world, ten since he left it and an incredible half century since Pink Floyd played their ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Overdrive! Syd Barrett Part 2
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, November 2016
LAST MONTH WE looked at Syd's childhood and the birth of Pink Floyd up to releasing 'Arnold Layne'. ...
Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2017
CORY HANSON didn't hang about when he formed Wand with fellow art school chums Lee Landey and Evan Burrows in 2013. ...
Jane Weaver: Ramsgate Music Hall
Live Review by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 23 October 2017
CERTAIN ENGLISH female singing voices make a direct grab for the central nervous system. From Sandy Denny to Sarah Nixey, Maddy Prior to Sarah Cracknell ...
Where's the Love In, man?: The mystery of London's legendary lost Love In Festival of 1967
Retrospective by Jon Newey, Flashback, Summer 2017
In July 1967 the biggest gathering of psychedelic groups ever held in the UK up to that point took place at London's Alexandra Palace right ...
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 April 2018
Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo's hallucinatory classic, which turns 20 this month ...
Report and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, July 2018
Nick Mason on the past, present and future of his time-travelling new Floyd project, Saucerful Of Secrets… ...
Roger Waters: British Summer Time, Hyde Park
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 7 July 2018
A patronising two-and-a-half hours delivered in splendid sound and vision ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Gary Duncan 1946-2019
Obituary by Tony Burke, Record Collector, September 2019
GARY DUNCAN, guitarist and vocalist of the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service, died on June 29 at the age of 72 after suffering from a ...
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 14 February 2020
Perth's disco dork returns after a four-year hiatus with an album that finds existential meaning in genre-surfing dance music ...
Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020
LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...
The Seeds: Jan Savage 1942-2020
Obituary by Harvey Kubernik, Ugly Things, 11 August 2020
JAN SAVAGE (born Buck Jan Reeder), guitarist with American rock band the Seeds, died in early August, according to a report in The Ada News ...
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: KG (Flightless)
Review by Stevie Chick, MOJO, January 2021
Restless Antipodean psychonauts find further inspiration in the notes between the notes. ...
Patti Smith: Lenny Kaye: "Boom! I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and everything changed"
Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 14 November 2021
As guitarist in the Patti Smith Group and compiler of psychedelic touchstone Nuggets, his place in music history is secured. His new book charts the ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 6 April 2022
Frontman Richard Butler is now 65, but his nicotine rasp remains a thing of wonder and the band's pop smarts mean they have aged well ...
Panda Bear, Sonic Boom: Sonic Boom and Panda Bear
Interview by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 19 April 2023
Peter Kember (Sonic Boom) and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) talk to Louder Than War about their inherently psychedelic country of residence, miracles and sense of ...
Goat, Pale Blue Eyes: Goat/Pale Bue Eyes: Electric Brixton, London
Live Review by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 22 April 2023
Enigmatic psych-rock collective Goat finish the UK tour in fittingly eclectic South London. ...
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