JERRY MCPHEERSON

The hipster making clothes too expensive for hipsters.

Boredom and unemployment have brought on a massive resurgence of acid and mushrooms.

This is fandom at its most dedicated.

Amy Gartrell's art is a strange and wonderful assortment of Day-Glo goth and new-age bummers...

Popular music as social criticism has a long history of sucking shit.

The scene: Gumby is lounging on his bed. Prickle enters in a panic and says, "The unidragon ate the prism spheres we hid in Echo Cove!" Gumby panics.

The debut Black Dice full-length, Beaches and Canyons, is out this month, and it is a full-on psychedelic mindfuck of epic proportions. Which may surprise some, since Black Dice are still known for those aggro powerviolence 30-second bursts of pain...

Remember the first time you: French-kissed, rode a roller coaster, successfully shoplifted, went to a (good) punk show, held a puppy, fucked, got drunk, fell in love, realized you're gonna die, saw a rainbow.

Bogdan Raczynski, whose musical output up to now has been some all-well-and-good skittery techno on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label, has just released a bona fide masterpiece.If Steven Spielberg had half a brain, he would have hired Bogdan to compose...