psych Archive
18 Apr 2012
Album Review: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of the 1970s – right up there with Who’s Next and a very short list of […]
24 May 2009
Album Review: The United States of America – s/t
It’s easy to forget that in 1968, getting weird and unearthly sounds on your album (assuming you wanted them; plenty did) was no easy task. There were no presets, no […]
05 May 2009
Album Review: Brian Jonestown Massacre – Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request
Perhaps most people know of Anton Newcombe from Ondi Timoner’s 2003 questionable documentary Dig! than through his career itself; as leader of the neo-psychedelic Brian Jonestown Massacre, Newcombe and his […]
19 Jan 2008
Robyn Hitchcock: Vinyl is Forever
The droll (even by English standards) singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock came on the scene in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, a Cambridge psych-rock group that — depending on one’s […]
16 Jan 2008
Flaming Lips: The Sound of Success
With the charismatic Wayne Coyne fronting the Flaming Lips, it’s easy to overlook the articulate creative expression of Steven Drozd. Steven joined in 1992, ostensibly as their drummer — but […]
13 Jan 2008
The Strange Odyssey of Roky Erickson
The history of rock ‘n’ roll is replete with all manner of tragic stories. In a few rare cases, the stories turn around into something more positive. Roky Erickson’s is […]
02 Dec 2007
Todd Rundgren / Utopia / Nazz: A Critical Essay
Written in 2002(!) for Trouser Press and in need of a major update to cover an additional half-century’s worth of music — bk DISCOGRAPHY Todd Rundgren Runt (Bearsville) 1970 The […]
01 Dec 2007
Pink Floyd: A Critical Essay
Written in 2002(!) for Trouser Press with a one-sentence update in 2007. In need of a major update to cover an additional half-century’s worth of music — bk Pink Floyd […]