The Happening
Elektra’s journey through the past
August 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Up for some time travel? Elektra Records surveys its 60-year history via an outstanding multimedia journey that’s available online. Curated by label founder Jac Holzman, Elektra60.com is built around a graphics-heavy interactive timeline. It launches immediately upon visiting the page, transporting visitors from 2010 to 1950 in most trippy fashion, as if they fell into a “2001″ black hole. Images flash by, roots music plays. Worth the visit alone. Holzman signees the Doors, Love and Incredible... [Read more]
Bands
Jerry Garcia biopic brewing in Hollywood
July 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Captain Trips is going Hollywood as the story of Jerry Garcia’s early years appears headed for the big screen. Expected to be titled “Dark Star,” the movie “will be psychedelic in the best sense,” one writer says. The independent film’s director is Amir Bar-Lev, who made the excellent 2007 documentary “My Kids Could Paint That” as well as 2010′s “Tillman.” While a stream of documentaries have covered Garcia and the Grateful Dead over the years, this is a feature... [Read the full story]
Movies
Combination of the 2: Adams as Joplin
July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
America’s sweetheart Amy Adams as hard-living, leather-voiced singer Janis Joplin? Yes, that was an enormous collective WTF from Baby Boomers and the Generation X’ers who love them. “Twilight” producer Wyck Godfrey let slip the left-fielder that Adams (“Enchanted,” “Junebug”) is the latest actress aiming to play Joplin in a biopic. “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles is aboard “Get It While You Can” as well, Godfrey says. Adams doesn’t look her years... [Read the full story]
Concerts
The Wall falls: Gilmour, Waters reunite
July 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In what’s being called a temporary reunion, ex-Pink Floyd leaders David Gilmour and Roger Waters agreed to swap appearances at each other’s shows. The sudden detente led to speculation that Pink Floyd might reunite at some point, however unlikely that might be. Waters’ turn to perform came July 10, when he joined Gilmour at a charity event in Oxford, England. Backed by a band, the duo sang “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)”... [Read the full story]
Recordings
Live Jefferson Airplane CDs sound familiar
August 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
CDs of the Jefferson Airplane’s live performances have been pretty limited over the years, but that’s about to change. The Collectors’ Choice Music Live series plans a quartet of live albums from 1966-68, including one that captures Grace Slick’s debut as the band’s vocalist. The CDs are due Oct. 26. Knowledgeable fans won’t get too worked up. These four recordings already are well-traveled on the Internet, most prominently on the authorized online music service Wolfgang’s Vault.... [Read the full story]
Radio
Furthur live on Sirius; town halts show
June 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Reason to be grateful: Sirius XM is doing a live broadcast of Furthur’s tour stop in tiny Jim Thorpe, Pa. Reason to be bummed: The July 5 show at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont was abruptly canceled because of fears of damage to the facility. One angry fan called it “Grateful Dead paranoia at its best.” The Tuesday, June 29, concert on satellite radio comes from Penn’s Peak, a 1,600-seat club, making it the most intimate performance of Furthur’s current tour. (The concert, of course, is rock... [Read the full story]
Psychedelic art galleries
100 Greatest Psychedelic Songs
No. 44: ‘Maggot Brain’
The legend goes like this: Funkadelic maestro George Clinton delivered to Eddie Hazel the sad news that the young guitarist’s mother had just died. Now play a solo, Clinton said as the tape rolled. The musicians may or may not have been on Yellow Sunshine acid at the... [Read more]
50 Greatest Psychedelic Albums
No. 30: ‘The Flock’
The Flock would go on to record other ace songs, but what is arguably the band’s finest moment comes on side 1, track 1 of album No. 1 — the instrumental duet “Introduction.” A collision of psychedelic rock and classical music, the number features... [Read more]