A Marine veteran explores how psychedelic work helps address moral injury, trust, and identity—not just PTSD—through careful dosing, agency, and long-term healing.
Bill Kurzenberger
A Tale of Crescendo ~ Epilogue
This story goes to eleven chapters, as A Tale of Crescendo resolves in a conclusive epilogue one year following the clash and reckoning
Vinyl Relics: Would You Believe with Billy Nicholls
In this Vinyl Relics epysode Farmer John gives due recognition to Billy Nichols, who touched unrequited greatness with his largely unheard album Would You Believe
A Tale of Crescendo ~ Chapter 9: The Clash; Chapter 10: The Reckoning
A Tale of Crescendo comes to a dramatic and stunning conclusion in the new musically fantastical novella making its debut in Psychedelic Scene
Vinyl Relics: Relatively Clean Rivers
The rare 1976 self-titled album by Phil Pearlman’s Relatively Clean Rivers is spotlighted in this latest Vinyl Relics epysode by Farmer John
A Tale of Crescendo ~ Chapter 7: The Flashback; Chapter 8: The Black Bird
Time unravels in A Tale of Crescendo as a Minuet sonata forever changes the tribe’s destiny, and a psychedelic visionquest is revealed by a sagacious explorer
A Tale of Crescendo ~ Chapter 5: The War Begins; Chapter 6: The Great Hall
The tribes and their chiefs collide in shocking conflicts of the mind, body and soul, as a secret guild discovers the mystical mountain hall named Wynterlyn in the third installment of A Tale of Crescendo
2025 Year In Review
In 2025 Psychedelic Scene featured luminaries in exclusive interviews & podcast episodes; evaluated new releases, vintage albums & films; attended & reviewed concerts from London to San Francisco; and spotlighted vivid artists & exhibits. Dive into this wrap-up of 100+ articles published this year!
Jorma Kaukonen 85th Birthday Celebration in San Francisco – Concert Review
Kyle Siegrist recounts Jorma’s Bay Area concert celebrating his 85th birthday with Jack Casady, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, John Hurlbut & more on December 5th, San Francisco’s “Jorma Kaukonen Day”
A Tale of Crescendo ~ Chapter 3: The West & The East; Chapter 4: The First Crescendo
Voyage into the fictional lands of Crescendo as nature and nurture collide in a world forever altered by the introduction of the first human song