San Francisco Bay Rock
Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, 1966
The San Francisco rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have given ...

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). ...

Hawkwind: In Search Of Space
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 Butterfield's ...

Hawkwind
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 the ...

Kaleidoscope
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 none ...

Hawkwind: Space Ritual
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 in ...

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 best ...

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... ...

The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Retrospective by Nick Kent, NME, April 1974
THERE IS A story that exists pertaining to an incident which occurred during one of Syd Barrett's later gigs with Pink Floyd. After a lengthy interval, ...

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 a ...

Hawkwind: The Regular 'Wind Miracle
Report by Mick Farren, NME, November 1974
NEW YORK just doesn't seem to be the place for Hawkwind. ...

The Doors: Strange Days
Review by Max Bell, NME, January 1975
WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...

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 knows ...

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 ...

Captain Beefheart - Interview
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 be ...

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. CHRIS ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart: Bongo Fury
Review by Mick Farren, NME, November 1975
THE STORY SO ...

Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
AND THE GHOST walks once ...

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 ...

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 couple ...

Gong: Shamal
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 its ...

Pink Floyd: Games For May
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 of ...

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 constantly ...

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 Womble ...

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 strands ...

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. ...

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 abrasive ...

Jade Warrior: Way Of The Sun
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, November 1978
NOT YER average roots of mystic religion ...

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 your ...

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 sit ...

Frank Zappa: Re-issues
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. ...

Grateful Dead
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 drifting ...

Frank Zappa: Re-issues
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 recent ...

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 fabric ...

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 played ...

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 if ...

Country Joe and The Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and Body; I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die; Together (Vanguard reissues)
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 that ...

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 the ...

Psychedelia USA
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 1966, ...

Psychedelia: Poster Artists
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 ...

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 ...

The Summer of Love's Counterculture Butterflies
Overview by Andy Gill, Mojo, June 1997
Who were they? Where are they now? ...

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 ...

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 it, ...

Kesey Rides Again
Report by Gavin Martin, The Independent, 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 Brighton ...

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, we ...

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 distance ...

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 hundred ...

Jefferson Airplane: Ignition
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. ...

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. ...

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 smoke ...

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 ...

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. Some ...

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 ...

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 to ...

Syd Barrett
Obituary by Rob Chapman, Mojo, September 2006
This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...

The Man Who Went Too High: Roky Erickson
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 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 hosts ...

Moby Grape: Moby Grape
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 your ...

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 a ...

Traffic In The Summer Of Love
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 need ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company in The Summer of Love
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 the ...

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 esteemed ...