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
Bill Kurzenberger
Vinyl Relics: If Only For A Moment by Blossom Toes
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
Psychotropic Cinema: Yellow Submarine
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
Vinyl Relics: The Nest by Jeannie Piersol
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
“Dead Street” by Bebaloncar — new single review
Italian shoegaze psych group Bebaloncar has released the moody single “Dead Street” ahead of the upcoming album Love to Death
Dead & Company GD60 at Golden Gate Park Polo Fields — Concert Review
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
FROMME #1 — Album Review
Enigmatic British multi-instrumentalist Darrell Carter’s debut album FROMME #1 features hallucinatory sounds, haunting harmonies and otherworldly reverberations
Psychotropic Cinema: El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1970) is an acid Western which employs surreal symbolism, iconoclastic imagery, and dream logic to showcase its trippy, metaphoric elements.
The Music Never Stops: The Grateful Dead’s Enduring Legacy (2025 Update)
The Grateful Dead’s sixtieth anniversary is chronicled in this update to our 2024 feature, including Dead & Company’s GD60 festivities at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
Podcast: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist Sunny Strasburg
Sunny Strasburg, LMFT describes her Theradelic Approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy with Dr. Gamble in this Psychedelic Scene Podcast