Before psychedelics ran rampant across San Francisco and beyond in the late 1960s, Texas' 13th Floor Elevators were using LSD ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

When people think of the Beatles, the first thing that comes to mind is not their drug use, at least for most people. When compared to some of their wilder contemporaries, the Fabs feel somewhat ...

Hawkwind started out with one clear musical aim: to create the sights, sounds and sensations of an acid trip, so that the audience could share the experience without the help of any drugs. In 2008, ...

The story of Revolver began in a night of hell and illumination. "We've had LSD," John Lennon told George Harrison. It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie ...

Dominic allowed me to publish a series of articles he had written called “Psychedelic Skeletons in the Closet” that focused ...

There have been numerous eras of psychedelia, and prog-rock outfit Spirit produced some of the very best music at the tail end of the original era’s lifespan. Spirit was more than just as good as Pink ...

A vibrant, inventive little world blossoms in a music video for Vadoinmessico, a London-based, "nostalgic psychedelic freak-folk" band. Rafael Bonilla Jr.'s signature animation style matches the ...

Among psychedelic enthusiasts, April 19 or Bicycle Day honors a mind-altering ride taken by the Swiss chemist who created LSD. Bicycle Day marks a hallucinogenic ride that's considered the birth of ...

In 1943, biochemist Albert Hoffman accidentally ingested a chemical that he had synthesized from a fungus and discovered that it created hallucinations. The mind-bending chemical was lysergic acid ...