psych Archive
15 Oct 2014
Album Review: Orgone Box — Centaur
Looking backward for one’s musical inspiration (and/or sound) is not a new approach. Countless bands and solo artists have built careers out of recreating a style that has come and […]
23 Sep 2014
Festival Review: Transfigurations II, Part 2
Continued from Part One… I’ve long been a fan of what is sometimes labeled “kiwi pop,” the jangly guitar-based music – mostly made by a very interconnected community of musicians […]
29 Aug 2014
Album Review: Hedersleben — Die Neuen Welten
According to our friends over at Wikipedia, krautrock is defined as “a form of rock and electronic music that originated in Germany in the late 1960s, with a tendency towards […]
26 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In 2012 I wrote a blog entry in which I suggested that Syd Barrett may have – consciously or otherwise – nicked the intro […]
25 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part One)
In that heady summer of 1967, one of the songs that captured and embodied the zeitgeist was “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),” a fuzzed-out psychedelic miniature masterpiece […]
08 Aug 2014
Album Review: Steve Hillage – Rainbow 1977
This week of archival, previously-unreleased live sets wraps up with one that’s both accessible and of excellent sonic quality. In 1977, guitarist Steve Hillage (erstwhile of Gong) was near the […]
06 Aug 2014
Album Review: Iron Butterfly — Live at the Galaxy 1967
There’s been a spate of previously-unreleased live albums released of late; this week I’m focusing on five of them. The first, a 1975 set by Magma, offered way-out music and […]
11 Jul 2014
Album Review: The Roaring 420s – What is Psych?
There’s a bubbling-under sort of cottage industry in sixties revivalism. And it’s been around for at least a couple of decades now, occasionally popping into the mainstream consciousness to enjoy […]
07 Jul 2014
The Universe of Captain Sensible, Part One
This feature is now serving as the basis of a longer, more in-depth discussion of the album in a chapter of Bill Kopp’s upcoming book, What’s the Big Idea: 30 […]
01 May 2014
Album Review: Various – A Psych Tribute to The Doors
Tribute albums can go any number of ways: they can showcase new takes on old music, they can provide a way for young or relatively unknown bands to use classic […]