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5 Psychedelic Rock Songs From the 1960s That Make You Feel Like You’re on Their Same Trip

British pop group the Beatles, (from left to right), John, George, Ringo and Paul, circa 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) These psychedelic rock songs from the 1960s ar...

Moon Construction Kit – “Down the West Coast”

An orchestral-touched throwback pop charmer, “Down The West Coast” is the beautiful new single from Moon Construction Kit, the psychedelic-pop project of Swiss producer Olivier Cor...

Quicksilver Messenger Service’s Who Do You Love – The Recordings 1967–1972 reviewed: acid-rock pioneers reclaimed

A sprawling boxset revisits their neglected role at the heart of San Francisco’s psychedelic explosion

“I imagined playing in San Francisco. I didn’t even know where it was! But within a few months, there we were”: In a wor...

The proto-prog debut album that followed blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale contained an 18-minute suite and challenging lyrics. It was everything the late Gary Brooker want...

5 Songs From the 1960s That Made You Want To Live in California

Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, John Phillips and Mama Cass Elliott have an acoustic guitar jam and picnic in circa 1966 in a park. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)...

3 Pioneering Psychedelic Songs I Know You’ve Never Heard

English record producer and sound engineer Joe Meek (1929-1967) working with a reel-to-reel tape recorder in his home recording studio at 304 Holloway Road in Islington, London on...

3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1960s That Still Hit Hard Today, Even Though No One Listens to Psychedelia Anymore

English rock band Procol Harum posed outside the Centre Point office building at St Giles Circus in London in May 1967. Members of the group are, from left, Ray Royer, Bobby Harris...

Patti Spadaro’s ‘Mystic Misfit’ maps the psychedelic interior

For decades now, rock music has largely abandoned transcendence. Once, it promised altered states, expanded consciousness, communal release — a temporary escape from the bureaucrat...

The Beach Boys at Big Sur Folk Festival (1970)

On the heels of the majestic Sunflower and a visual rehabilitation campaign, an appearance at 1970's Big Sur Folk Festival was a calculated effort for The Beach Boys to endear them...

Psych Folk, Pt.1Episode #26-21 airing 05-20-26

The distinctive sound of the psychedelic era was not just a component of the rock music of the period; there was a good bit of folk music which was influenced by the times. That so...

"Of course it was a drug song. We were stoned when we wrote it!" The story of the psychedelic masterpiece inspired by Jo...

Eight Miles High was the single that should have launched The Byrds into the stratosphere. So why did it instead mark the precise moment when it all came crashing down?

One of the First Psychedelic Rock Songs Ever Recorded Was Actually a Romantic Transcontinental Message to an Old Flame

Donovan the pop singer with his girlfriend Linda - 1969. (Photo by Mirrorpix via Getty Images) "Sunshine Superman" wasn't just a pioneering psych-rock record. It was also a transc...

4 Songs From the 60s That Will Make You Either Love or Hate Psychedelic Rock

The Church Bring Singular Sound to Woodstock

Awash in smoke machine haze and adorned in trippy paisley shirts, Steve Kilbey, and fellow members of The Church brought their unique brand of eighties Australian psychedelia to Th...

"We think we played for eight hours. I can't say for sure, because everyone was tripping." The acid-fried story of Man,...

"We're a pretty unmanageable bunch of stoned musos, which might have something to do with our lack of commercial success."

3 Essential 1960s and 1970s Progressive Rock Albums That Pushed the Limits

LOS ANGELES - APRIL 1975: Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd onstage at the Sports Arena in April 1975 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) These essen...

A psychedelics revival is overdue

R. Gordon Wasson was a Manhattan banker who fancied himself a mycologist. In 1955, after decades studying the mushrooms of ancient cultures, he traveled to the remote mountains of...

4 Rock Songs That Define the Classic Sound of the Late 1960s

MONTEREY CA - JUNE 17: Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane backstage at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 17 1967 in Monterey, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Imag...

3 Songs Released During the Summer of Love That Epitomized the Movement

British pop group the Beatles, (from left to right), John, George, Ringo and Paul, circa 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) These three songs epitomized the summer of lov...

3 Unique Songs From 1968 That Still Feel Shockingly Modern

3 One-Hit Wonders From the Late 60s That Put Psychiatry in the Mainstream Before It Was Popular

Mental health awareness before it was trendy. The post 3 One-Hit Wonders From the Late 60s That Put Psychiatry in the Mai...

This Classic Rock Song by Spirit Set the Tone for All Songs About Environmental Concerns

LOS ANGELES - MAY 29: Members of the rock band "Spirit" pose for a candid portrait on May 29, 1968 in Los Angeles California. Original members include Jay Ferguson, Mark Andes, Ed...

"This sure ain't no summer of love, baby." The Stooges mark the post-Altamont death throes of the hippy zeitgeist on Fun...

The Stooges' second album Fun House is a beautiful seven-track study in the feral and unhinged

"That riff is probably the very first heavy metal riff ever": The story of the Hendrix-inspired Cream classic their labe...

Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love was a slow-burning success, but it inspired a generation of future rockers