psych Archive
11 Mar 2014
The Moody Blues’ Mike Pinder: Promise Renewed (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… BK: Eighteen years passed between release of The Promise and Among the Stars. Certainly you were busy with other things in the intervening years, but why […]
10 Mar 2014
The Moody Blues’ Mike Pinder: Promise Renewed (Part One)
Keyboardist Mike Pinder was a founding member of the Moody Blues. He was with them back in the really early days, when their lead singer was Denny Laine (later of […]
01 Mar 2014
Bonus Weekend Feature: The Black Angels’ Alex Maas Talks About Roky Erickson
Austin-based band Black Angels have a finely tuned sense of history. While their music – often described by the band members themselves as “tribal psychedelic” – doesn’t aim to slavishly […]
07 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Three
I’m making progress in bringing my the contents of my in-box down to a manageable size, but there are still so many albums deserving of coverage that I’ll be doing […]
24 Jan 2014
Nik Turner: Mystical Interdimensional Space Gypsy (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: You’ve come a long way from the beginning when it wasn’t about technical proficiency… Nik Turner: But I’ve become technical just through practicing. I […]
23 Jan 2014
Nik Turner: Mystical Interdimensional Space Gypsy (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Nik Turner: And the success of the Hawkwind “Silver Machine” single enabled us to mount the Space Ritual [tour], which was quite an expensive project. Jonathan […]
22 Jan 2014
Nik Turner: Mystical Interdimensional Space Gypsy (Part One)
It takes awhile to earn status as a Grand Old Man of, well, of anything. It seems to take even longer if the thing in question is rock music. But […]
06 Jan 2014
Concert Preview: Welcome (Back) to The Machine
New York-based Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine have long made Asheville NC’s Orange Peel the first or an early stop on their annual winter tour itinerary. The group routinely […]
20 Dec 2013
News on a Long Awaited Reissue
Readers who check out my writing more than occasionally will know of my keen interest in the music and the history of Paul Revere and the Raiders. One of my […]
18 Dec 2013
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s “Point Me at the Sky”
Released 45 years ago yesterday (and recorded in a single day a mere six weeks earlier), Pink Floyd‘s “Point Me at the Sky” is characterized (by Wikipedia) as “the least […]