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 ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) -- Celebrated British psychedelic doomsayers Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats return to the Bay Area for the first time in over two years when their headlining tour with fellow ...

Psychedelia is often portrayed as colorful swirls of melting clouds and moments of synesthesia that change everything you’ve ever known about the physical world. But what about the darker side of ...

With its ever-expanding music infrastructure and a deep bench of bands, it’s hard to imagine a Texas where Austin isn’t the focal point of Lone Star music. East 6th, Austin City Limits, Rainey Street, ...

The music was the soundtrack to a counterculture that embraced all kinds of creative individuals, including poets, artists, writers, clothes and lighting designers, photographers, silk-screen printers ...

Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at San Francisco’s Hemlock Tavern. The guru of ’60s psychedelic rock doesn’t drink alcohol. Booze brings you down, and Hall believes you should always be ...

Only one genre seems to befit the mindfuck caused by a trippy pandemic year: psychedelic. The genre has expanded within the last few years as artists explore different forms of psychedelic sounds ...

One of the most unique sub-genres to ever come out of rock ‘n’ roll is psychedelic rock. It ruled a whole generation and was arguably the genre of the ’60s. Following its peak, psychedelic rock ...

The Beatles released some “trippy” music, even if people put it down at first, according to Paul McCartney. In one interview, the “Strawberry Fields Forever” songwriter shared his thoughts on ...

Nearly everyone familiar with the history of the 1960s has heard of Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, the pranksters who spread the gospel of psychedelics to the countercultural generation. But far fewer ...