Get your mind blown by the glorious acid rock of Pretty Things side project, Electric Banana, 1969
From 1967-1978, the British band the Pretty Things recorded five albums under an alias, though none were sold in stores. Amongst the tracks they put…
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The Family Acid takes a psychedelic look at the Golden State in ‘California’
After the Grammy Award-winning success of their exquisite Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition box set Ozma Records, the imprint founded by bOING bOING’s David…
Acid Ranch: The wild and secret pre-Guided By Voices project that was never meant to be heard
Photo shoot for the Guided By Voices album ‘Sandbox,’ 1987. (Courtesy: Robert Pollard) Robert Pollard, majordomo for Guided By Voices and a host of other…
Etched in Acid: TV news reports from Summer of Love-era SF show how gross the hippies could be
Victor Moscoso, ‘Incredible Poetry Reading’ The Bay Area’s CBS affiliate, KPIX, aired special reports on the hippie phenomenon in 1967: “The Maze: Haight/Ashbury,” a tour…
Acid Mothers Temple’s cover of eerie ‘Twin Peaks’ song to be released next week
The whole world is waiting impatiently for the return of Twin Peaks later this month on Showtime. The original run of Twin Peaks on ABC…
‘Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip’: Stream some obscure vintage fuzz rock from the 60s & 70s
The cover of ‘Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip.’ Some of the mind-melting jams on Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip are so rare that the die-hard…
Comedians on Acid: Hippie madness at the end of the 60s
Last week we posted our interview with Kliph Nesteroff about his marvelous new book The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy,…