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
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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
“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
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.
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
DELUJN (vol. 1) by Shuyler Janson: EP Review
Shuyler Janson’s EP DELUJN (vol. 1) delivers quirky, hypnotic synth-pop layered with dark wit, sonic depth, and mad-scientist charm.
Interview with Johhny Echols of Love
Johnny Echols discusses touring with Arthur Lee, the enduring legacy of Love, and surprising truths about Lee’s musical contributions.
White Noise Sound’s “Sunset” Reemerges
Marking its 15th anniversary, White Noise Sound’s psych-drone classic “Sunset” returns digitally remastered via Rocket Girl Records on July 18.
Psychotropic Cinema: Fritz the Cat
Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat (1972) is a trippy, X-rated animated satire based on Robert Crumb’s comic, blending sex, drugs, and countercultural critique with controversial racial and gender dynamics.
