The Happening
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... [Read more]
Bands
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]
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
Glastonbury fest goes ‘weird, psychedelic’
June 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The spiritual descendant of the great 1960s rock festivals, Glastonbury rises once again this week. The shadows of psychedelia lurk around every corner of the English festival, perhaps in response to critics who said bookers were ignoring underground music. Psychedelic-tinged acts at this year’s Glasto include the Flaming Lips, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Curved Air and George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic. Psychedelic trance, electronica and ’60s-style pop come from the Egg, Orbital, Dead Weather, Holy... [Read the full story]
This Web Site
The Psychedelic Sight philosophy
January 29, 2008 · 1 Comment
When asked what his favorite music was, Duke Ellington said: “There are only two kinds of music. The good and the bad. I like the good.” That pretty much covers it. So when I started up a pair of online “radio stations” for psychedelic music, I included the Duke’s “Caravan.” Huh? Yeah, and I didn’t include the so-called psychedelic classic “My Green Tambourine.” Or “If You’re Going to San Francisco.” Or any other of the nehru-jacket songs that... [Read the full story]
Internet radio
Porpoise Mouth Radio: wide open
December 29, 2008 · 5 Comments
Before Psychedelic Site there was Porpoise Mouth the Internet radio station. Tune in now. The Last.fm-based project follows this site’s philosophy that psychedelic music need not be from any particular era or genre. And so along with Jimi Hendrix, Love, Pink Floyd, Traffic and the usual suspects from the 1960s, you’ll find sonic adventures from Ornette Coleman, Bernard Hermann, They Might Be Giants, Thelonious Monk, Nick Drake and Kate Bush. The online collection is a psychedelic crazy quilt. The criterion for... [Read the full story]
Psychedelic art galleries
100 Greatest Psychedelic Songs
No. 50: ‘Atom Heart Mother’ suite
The year 1970 found Pink Floyd in search of a title for their latest musical exploration, a psychedelic suite of sorts. Roger Waters picked up a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper,... [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... [Read more]
Sixties sights and sounds
CD, album reviews
‘Love Is the Song We Sing’: CD review
San Francisco more or less created psychedelic rock in the 1960s, although it can be argued that the first song worthy of that tag came from London, where... [Read more]