Psychedelia
Moby Grape: Aiming High Up On The Vine
Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, June 1967
THE MOBY Grape is a San Francisco rock quintet whose stated objective is to "climb high on the vine". They live in Mill Valley, California, ...
Hippies: How? Why? What Does It Mean?
Report by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, August 1967
SAN FRANCISCO – Five o'clock in the afternoon. The going home traffic already crowding the freeway to a frustrating halt. ...
Plastic Penny: Put Scratch On Record
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, January 1968
A PLASTIC penny for your thoughts then, or to be more precise, tuppence-worth in the shape of vocalist Brian Keith and organist Paul Raymond who ...
Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Melodyland, Anaheim CA
Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, March 1968
San Francisco Bands Shortchange Anaheim Audience ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, October 1968
Janis Joplin (lead voc); Peter Albin (bass, voc); San Andrew (lead & rhm gtr); James Gurley (lead & rhm gtr); David Getz (Drms, voc). ...
Soft Machine: The Soft Machine: The Soft Machine (ABC)
Review by Miles, International Times, November 1968
SEVERAL exotic people were sitting on the floor at an Indica Gallery opening in 1966, the tall one with the Dr Strange cape was called ...
Spirit: The Family That Plays Together (Ode)
Review by Miles, International Times, February 1969
From The Ergot Fields ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969)
Interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 1969
Recorded during the Dead's 1969 peak, Garcia looks back to the early days of the Warlocks, the Acid Tests, goes through the albums to date (including the soon-to-be-released Live/Dead) and expounds on the music.
File format: mp3; file size: 57.6mb, interview length: 1h 02' 57" sound quality: ****
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, July 1969
INTROSPECTIVE exploration of themes is the general idea on this album from one of America's top underground groups. ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Burnout Sets In
Special Feature by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, August 1969
But I reckon l got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilise ...
Quintessence: Notting Hill Gate – a Single, a Group, and a Place
Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, January 1970
LONDON WEST Ten is the Grove. It is that part of Notting Hill straddling Ladbroke Grove, where, over the past few years, a whole new ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, January 1970
Quicksilver Group Brings New Pianist To Fillmore East ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Dead on Arrival
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, May 1970
The Grateful Dead fly into Britain ...
Grateful Dead: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, April 1971
Grateful Dead Draws Far-Out Fans ...
Quintessence: Peace... Love... And Success Without Sell-Out
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, November 1971
FOR QUINTESSENCE, 1971 must go down as one of the most successful years in their history – they have been going through a period of ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Mick Farren, International Times, April 1972
"The trouble with a lot of kids who come to our concerts is that they can't see beyond the drugs. They get so ripped that ...
Review by Jeff Walker, Phonograph Record, May 1972
IT'S BEEN an eternity since I've writhed to a record on a physical level, but I still recall fondly those stoned hours spent engrossed in ...
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1972
HAWKWIND ARE ONE of the very few "Underground" bands to make the big time almost entirely on their own terms, without any real concessions to ...
Various Artists: Nuggets (Elektra)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1972
I LEARNED ABOUT golden oldie collections the hard way. I was all of eleven, and had finally managed to figure out what that noise coming ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Fat Angel, 1973
THERE MUST BE something in the air in L.A., besides photochemical smog, to make it the home of such a lot of fine music, and ...
Review by Chris Rowley, International Times, May 1973
THIS IS THE definitive Hawkwind LP and very definitely their best. Being live it has all the right qualities to bring back memories of twitching ...
Hawkwind: Space Ritual Alive At Liverpool Stadium And Brixton Sundown (United Artists)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, May 1973
WELL, THESE COSMIC tacos ain't about to make you wet yourself, but it's still a fact that, contained on these four sides, are the very ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, October 1973
THERE SEEMS to be a general reawakening to the 1967 Summer of Love recently. All of England is agog over Star Trek reruns while 600,000 ...
Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1974
Country Joe talks about being brought up by communist parents, his current musical and political interests, the Paris Sessions album, songwriting, the Beats, jazz and... Bowie!
File format: mp3; file size: 81mb, interview length: 1h 28' 27" sound quality: ***
Man: This Is The Man Band. In 6 Years They've Had Six Lineups. It Looks Like This One May Do It
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1974
TRANSLATED FROM THE HERO'S TONGUE BY CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, WHO'S ABOUT AS WELSH AS A NICE JEWISH BOY CAN GET THESE DAYS... ...
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, April 1974
The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...
Grateful Dead: Lookin' Back: The Grateful Dead
Retrospective by Nick Kent, NME, April 1974
Whatever happened to the Cosmic Dream? Part 45 (13th Hexagram) ...
Hawkwind: In The Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1974
DON'T TELL anybody, but yours adoring thinks that he's finally got this bunch sussed. ...
Gong: Look! There's A Pothead Pixie Arriving
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, October 1974
THERE'S A lot of musicians around that are going to be kissing Mike Oldfield's dirty underpants. The success of Tubular Bells has almost certainly uncovered ...
Hawkwind: The Regular 'Wind Miracle
Report by Mick Farren, NME, November 1974
NEW YORK just doesn't seem to be the place for Hawkwind. ...
Doors, The: The Doors: Strange Days
Review by Max Bell, NME, January 1975
WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...
Jeff Beck, Edgar Broughton Band, The, Pink Floyd: British Psychedelia: More Zits Than Hitz…
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1975
It's dream-time in Compilationsville once again, amigos. This week CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY does his worst to induce EMI into issuing Volume Two in his discocartography ...
John Cipollina, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Man: John Cipollina
Interview by Max Bell, NME, June 1975
JOHN CIPOLLINA, he's the real thing. Smallish, wiry, hair tied back, nicotine stains up to his elbow and the confident loquaciousness of a man who ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, July 1975
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (AKA Don Van Vliet) moves in sufficiently mysterious ways for me to believe that Zoot Horn Rollo (aka Bill Harkleroad) may just possibly ...
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1975
THE FIRST WORD of this review is "deteriorate." It means to Lose Your Magic. ...
Steve Hillage: On The Banks Of A Fish Dinner
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, August 1975
"The fish really get off on it man...it's their whole trip"... New angle on Gong's STEVE HILLAGE – the world's leading exponent of Fish Rock. ...
Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart: Bongo Fury
Review by Mick Farren, NME, November 1975
THE STORY SO far. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
AND THE GHOST walks once more. ...
Gong: Imperial College, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, November 1975
THE HALL was packed. It was the kind of audience that likes to jostle like mad for the first half of the set, blast a ...
Captain Beefheart: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, November 1975
DON'T BELIEVE WHAT your mother tells you kids, there really is a Legion of Super Heroes. ...
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
Interviewed at the Airplane house in San Francisco, the chanteuse of psychedelia rambles in splendid style on her early days in the Great Society, writing White Rabbit, drugs and drink and much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 77.2mb, total interview length: 1h 24' 21" sound quality: ***
Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, January 1976
SINCE HE split with The Animals and the Rock 'n' Roll mainstream to home in on the craftsmanship of Randy Newman, Price's career has seen ...
Review by Miles, NME, March 1976
THE LINEUP CHANGES have been so substantial and the musical direction has altered so drastically since their last album (You), that Gong might have changed ...
Retrospective by Miles, NME, May 1976
TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Steal Your Face
Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
SURPRISE, SURPRISE. THE new Dead album is coming in for the most monumental panning. Seems that for the past four years (at least) they've been ...
Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
How Kapt. Kopter kept coming back California, a bona fide genius guitar hero. Who says so? Max Bell says so. ...
Hawkwind: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, October 1976
TIGER OPENED to a leaden audience who failed to be moved even by big Nicky Moore, twisting and turning through the vocals like a giant ...
Hawkwind: Coventry Theatre, Coventry
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, December 1976
IT'S LIKE trying to resurrect the agonies and ecstasies of the Lysergic communion, putting Hawkwind's Robert Calvert on paper, spinning a yarn from the scattered ...
Steve Hillage, Gong: Steve Hillage....Electric Gipsy
Profile and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1977
AS I RECALL, it was the "livin' jukebox" himself, Andy Dunkley, who first assailed my ears with Steve Hillage's album Fish Rising. ...
Patti Smith: Lenny Kaye: New York Nuggets
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
IN ISSUE 68 [of ZigZag], Patti Smith talked about a number of things during an account of the first half of her visit to this ...
Hawkwind: Pulsating Poets of Sturm und Drang: Robert Calvert and Hawkwind
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Album Tracking, July 1977
"ROCK IS THE literature of this generation". Thus spake Robert Calvert, occasional playwright, self-styled poet, songwriter and lead singer with Hawkwind, the weirdest, most ...
Pink Floyd’s Heart Of Darkness: A Crash Course in Pig Latin
Overview by Ira Robbins, Creem, October 1977
IT DIDN'T SEEM like a bad idea at the time I accepted this assignment. Just because Pink Floyd hate the press and won't be interviewed ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, November 1978
NOT YER average roots of mystic religion jazz-fusion ...
Various Artists: Pebbles Vols. 1-4
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, November 1979
[To be read in a C&A Paisley shirt and matching tie, black lace-up school shoes and a pair of 16" cuff flared trousers re-cut from ...
The Sound and Vision of Psychedelia
Overview by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1981
"Okay. You've swallowed the magic cube, downed a cup of organic tea with filigree leaves, and placed the diamond needle on the appropriate sounds. Now ...
Prince: Around The World In A Day
Review by Max Bell, Times, The, June 1985
PRINCE, THE CURRENT court jester of American hippy soul, once wrote a song called 'Ronnie, Talk To Russia', a good message number that indicated this ...
Seeds, The: Where Are They Now: Sky Saxon
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, September 1985
The leader of the Seeds was 'Pushin' Too Hard' in the Sixties; now he'd into 'flower heaven power'. ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, August 1990
UNCLE FRANK'S EXTENSIVE reissues programme continues apace with eight more blasts from various bits of his past. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, August 1990
"My eyes were opened. There's a new world and a new society and a new spirit." ...
Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1991
OUTSIDE THE Grugahalle, a monstrous concert erection in Essen, Germany, a bearded fellow bearing more than a passing resemblance to the young Charles Manson is ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, November 1991
JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS, to quote Uncle Frank: yet another record label, and eight more Zappa albums hot on the heels of his two ...
Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee and Love: Arthur Lee and Love
Review by David Cavanagh, Q, July 1992
IT'S BEEN quite a year for the cult heroes. 1992 has already seen re-issued albums by Alex Chilton's long-deceased Big Star and Scott Walker tussling ...
Dazed and Infused: The Summer of Love
Retrospective by Miles, Vox, August 1992
"You had to be there" Barry Miles travels back in time. IT'S 25 years since the Summer of Love freaked its way into the ...
13th Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere
Review by Mat Snow, Q, 1993
THE SECOND INSTALMENT of Decal's noble policy of reissuing all four 13th Floor Elevators albums finds the influence of San Francisco (whose Avalon Ballroom they ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane Chronicles: Marty Balin
Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Relix, April 1993
READING THE following interview, one might get a sense that there are two Marty Balins. ...
Donovan: Sunshine Superman/Mellow Yellow/The Hurdy Gurdy Man/Barabajagal
Review by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, January 1995
HOW WAS IT that our "Celtic" hippie friend put it to Queen magazine in 1967? Oh, yes: "Pop is the perfect religious vehicle. It's as ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, June 1995
Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: The Last Great American Adventurer: Jerome John Garcia 1942-1995
Obituary by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1995
On August 9, Jerry Garcia, leader of the Grateful Dead, the most successful live group of all time, died in a Californian rehab center. To ...
Jethro Tull: Roots Before Branches (Chrysalis)
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, October 1995
Flutes in rock. Hmmm. Thijs Van Leer of Focus. Does James Galway's epochal rendition of Annie's Song count? It's really just Ian Anderson, isn't it ...
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, February 1996
COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH are doomed to be best remembered for that old crowd-pleaser they churned out at Woodstock in August, 1969. No matter ...
Pink Floyd: Alexandra Palace 1967: Syd Barrett Wasn’t Feeling At All Well...
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, April 1997
He was seeing things that others only eyed in kaleidoscopes. But he was aware that Roger Waters was dragging him on-stage; dawn was breaking and ...
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, June 1997
Ben Edmonds finds out what happened when acid hit blue-collar America. WHEN POET JOHN SINCLAIR was released from the Detroit House of Correction in August ...
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, June 1997
IT COULD BE SAID THAT THE POSTER ART WAS THE best thing that ever happened to psychedelic music. As concert posters they didn’t just advertise ...
The Summer of Love's Counterculture Butterflies
Overview by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 1997
Who were they? Where are they now? ...
Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics
Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 1997
Back by public demand, and even more mind-expanding, Jon Savage takes a trip through psychedelia’s golden years to compile the ultimate six-hour flashback. ...
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, September 1998
Groundbreaking garage-punk compilation expanded into a 4-CD box: over 100 big hits, hip misses, influential tracks, cultural oddities and sonic abominations. ...
Olivia Tremor Control, The: Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage (Blue Rose/ V2)
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
THE GOOD NEWS is that this double album maintains the high quality of OTC's Dusk At Cubist Castle, which updated the methodology of classic psychedelia ...
Skip Spence : Alexander Spence: Oar (Sundazed)
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
THE PASSING OF TIME has edged some psych esoterica into the mainstream, and Oar is a shining example. At once individual confession, generational narrative, and ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, 1999
KAK'S ONE and only album – released in the US during January 1969 – captures the Bay Area boom at its furthest outreach. ...
Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Top Ten Psychedelic Records (circa 1966)
Guide by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, May 1999
WITH EVERY waking hour bringing yet another ill-advised Revival of sorts to our virtual doorsteps – today Slinkies, tomorrow Saturday Night Fever – I thought ...
Grateful Dead: Kesey Rides Again
Report by Gavin Martin, Independent, The, August 1999
THE MAGIC BUS pulls up at the Peace Monument late on Friday afternoon, bringing a blaze of colour and a blast of noise to the ...
Chad and Jeremy: The Chad and Jeremy Story
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 2000
WHEN CHAD AND JEREMY were first invited to re-group, back in 1986 for the following year's British Invasion II tour, their first response was, "Hmmm, ...
Happy to be a Part of the Industry of Human Happiness: The Trans-Continental Beat of the 1960s
Sleevenotes by Alec Palao, Nuggets II (Rhino Records), 2001
SO, AS WE’RE FREQUENTLY TOLD, the world has now shrunk to the size of a soccer ball. The internet has eliminated traditional terrestrial boundaries of ...
Various: Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, July 2001
WITHIN THE rabid isolationism of the Bush regime, this is a remarkably generous statement: a monster collection aimed at the American market featuring aver a ...
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, November 2001
THERE ARE winners and losers in the shifting sands of rock fashion and, much as it hurts to write it, Jefferson Airplane seem like losers. ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Summer Of Haight
Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, April 2003
In January 1967, Jefferson Airplane were all set for take-off. But within months their dream was crumbling. Jeff Tamarkin on the destructive undercurrent to the ...
Spacemen 3: Medicine Show: The Spacemen 3 fill out another Perfect Prescription
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Seattle Weekly, June 2003
RUGBY, ENGLAND, SPRING ’87: Four scruffy twentysomethings are sprawled across secondhand bed mattresses arranged at asymmetrical angles on the floor of VHF Studios. The ...
Kaleidoscope: The Rise and Fall of the Neoprene Lizards: The Kaleidoscope Story
Retrospective and Interview by David Biasotti, pulsatingdream.com, 2004
I: "It was great music to float on while in the thrall of cannabis." ...
Hawkwind: The Saga of Hawkwind
Book Excerpt by Carol Clerk, Omnibus Press, 2004
Emerging from the hippie heartland of London's Ladbroke Grove in 1969, Hawkwind invented space-rock with a potent, psychedelic mixture of jamming blues, electronica and lights. ...
Kaleidoscope: Pulsating Dream: The Epic Recordings (Acadia/Evangeline)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2004
The complete ‘66-’70 works of insanely eclectic LA ensemble beloved of Jimmy Page. ...
Beach Boys, The, Brian Wilson: SMiLE When Your Heart Is Breaking: Brian Wilson
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, October 2004
"Come about hard and joinThe young and often spring you gaveI heard the wordWonderful thingA children's song" ('Surf’s Up') ...
MC5, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, The, Beatles, The: The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
Seeds, The: Sky Saxon & The Seeds: The Cluny, Newcastle
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, October 2005
IF YOU'VE EVER seen the early Jack Nicholson film Psych Out (1968), you'll remember the acid trip scene in the graveyard, where a funeral procession ...
Beatles, The: The Beatles: After Pepper
Essay by Jim Irvin, MOJO, Summer 2005
IT WAS APRIL 1967, the morning after The Beatles had completed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Zombies walked into Abbey Road Studios ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett
Obituary by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 2006
This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...
Mad River: Just Like a Poem: Richard Brautigan and Mad River
Retrospective and Interview by David Biasotti, Richard Brautigan (ed. John F. Barber), McFarland, 2007
THOUGH THEY RECORDED two albums for Capitol Records, Mad River remains one of the least-documented and enigmatic Bay Area bands of the late '60s. ...
Steve Hillage, Gong: Steve Hillage: Woggle Head
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, January 2007
Steve Hillage was a prime groover on the Canterbury psychedelic scene of the Seventies and still makes far-out trance music today. So why do people ...
Summer of Love: 40 Years Later
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2007
1967: The stuff that myths are made of ...
Roky Erickson: The Man Who Went Too High: Roky Erickson
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Guardian, The, June 2007
THE MOST IMPROBABLE of rock comebacks began on the night of March 19, 2005 at an Austin, Texas restaurant called Threadgill's. Every year, the eatery ...
Sleevenotes by Gene Sculatti, Sundazed Music Inc., July 2007
"There was a definite shock value in hearing the Grape open up with a sound that you did not so much hear as feel in ...
Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, Summer 2007
THE RELEASE of Big Brother And The Holding Company's self-titled debut album in the summer of 1967 should have been a highwater mark in both ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, Summer 2007
WE ARE GETTING ahead of ourselves slightly, but we are in New York at the tail end of 1967, late December in the Village, in ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, Summer 2007
RELEASED AT the tail end of the summer of love, 'A Hole In My Shoe' was hailed by NME as "an incredible disc which you ...
Mad River: The Mad River Story
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Shindig, August 2008
AT THE CLOSE of the '60s, the power of America's rock bible Rolling Stone was immense. Entire careers hinged on the opinions of the magazine's ...
Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine, Wilde Flowers, The: Kevin Ayers: An Interview
Interview by Mike Barnes, unpublished, Fall 2008
2013 NOTE: The interview was ostensibly for the "Hello/Goodbye" feature in MOJO 184 (March 2009), on Ayers's time in Soft Machine, but was opened out ...
Review by Steve Roeser, hollywoodconcerts.com, December 2009
EVEN BEFORE KIM FOWLEY (born 1939, Hollywood, California) hosted a weekly four-hour music program on satellite radio, a lot of people already knew his name, ...
Primal Scream: Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream
Retrospective and Interview by James Brown, Sabotage Times, February 2010
Primal Scream are the last great band of the original Creation Records roster, still rocking on, un-interrupted by break-ups or break-downs. James Brown gets down ...
MGMT: Inheritors of the Head-expanding Hippie Ethos
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, June 2010
FEW OF THE BANDS playing Glastonbury's 40th anniversary this weekend fit the consciousness-expanding ethic of the festival at its best as well as MGMT. They ...
Pink Floyd: Vinyl Icon: Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, September 2010
IT'S WRIT large in pop history that The Beatles spent the spring of 1967 recording their classic Sgt Pepper album in EMI's Abbey Road Studio ...
Seeds, The: 22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham
Memoir by Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012
STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to ...
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