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A Brief History of Musicians Saying That Their Own Music Sucks
"It's almost an embarrassment to play Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Woods Bring a Beatles Like Hope on New Track ‘Bleeding Blue’
The New York folk-rockers latest album was written after the US election.
RIP David Peel, the Proud Hippie From New York City
The famed street musician who worked with John Lennon, Yoko Ono and GG Allin has died at age 73
The Oral History of the First Two Times the Beatles Took Acid
A few months after George John were unexpectedly dosed with LSD, the whole band decided to try psychedelics properly. So they holed up in Zsa Zsa Gabor's house with Peter Fonda and David Crosby to get properly fucked.
The Trippy Life of the LSD Manufacturer Who ‘Helped Create the 60s’
Augustus Owsley Stanley III was the LSD chemist and audio maestro who not only created the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" and inspired the band's dancing bear iconography, but also created the drugs that sparked the "spirit of that era."
Remembering Geoff Stirling, the Weirdest Canadian of All Time
An ode to the man who created the late-night acid trip that is Captain Newfoundland.
Cinema Legend Jonas Mekas Makes His Miami Debut
The 93-year-old avant-garde film pioneer touches down in the Design District for a screening of ‘Walden’ Parts I and II and a huge exhibition.
In An Industry Full of Jokes Here Are Some of The Music World’s Best Aprils Fools Gags
From Diamond Dave, Hollywood Elvis and Alanis Morissette’s ‘My Humps’ we take a look at the music world’s best Aprils Fools jokes.
How Primal Scream Therapy Has Survived Five Decades of Strangeness and Controversy
Arthur Janov's primal therapy became a cultural phenomenon in the 60s and 70s, but today most experts say that the technique is unhelpful and can even be harmful to some patients. So how has it endured?