Bill Kurzenberger 
The Shaky Knees Music Festival returned to Atlanta in September, with captivating sounds of psychedelia provided by Mdou Moctar, TV On The Radio, and The Black Keys
Homegrown festival organizers and attendees let their freak flag fly at Troubadour Farm amidst imminent eminent domain
DAIISTAR, neo-psych indie quartet from Austin, Texas, has newly released the LP Fuzz Club Sessions #21 recorded live last year at London’s Lightship 95
Writer and filmmaker Dominic Pillai reflects on the counterculture film The Trip by director Roger Corman & screenwriter Jack Nicholson, and the eruption of creativity in climacteric 1967
This week’s Vinyl Relics podcast digs deep into Blossom Toes’ second and final album If Only For A Moment, as Farmer John interviews Jim Cregan about his time with the group
Revisit Pepperland and the story behind George Dunning’s classic 1968 animated psychedelic film Yellow Submarine featuring The Beatles’ music in this Psychotropic Cinema review by Jeff Broitman
In this Vinyl Relics episode, Farmer John uncovers the rare late-60s antiquity The Nest by Jeannie Piersol, a long-lost gem which was unreleased for over five decades and never publicly heard until this year
Italian shoegaze psych group Bebaloncar has released the moody single “Dead Street” ahead of the upcoming album Love to Death
Dead & Company’s milestone performances at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Polo Fields celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary on August 2nd & 3rd are reviewed by Deadhead aficionado Butch Weaver
Enigmatic British multi-instrumentalist Darrell Carter’s debut album FROMME #1 features hallucinatory sounds, haunting harmonies and otherworldly reverberations
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