Tom Wolfe forged a place in our collective consciousness for car enthusiasts, hippies, pilots, surfers, strippers and the monied elite, and helped make tho...
Known as “Hardly Visible” when he was on the bus with Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady, George Walker counted Gut Terk, Hunter S. Thompson and Terry the Tramp among h...
Singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the Remains, Boston’s first and finest rock & roll band, recalls the days when his band played on The Ed Sullivan ...
We are happy to announce that Pamela Des Barres, bestselling author (I’m With the Band) and legendary rock & roll scene groupie, will be writing regularly f...
"We must either love each other, or we must die." In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever changed the tone of American politics, pointing the way towa...
The French yé-yé singer died on January 7, 2018, after an illustrious career that included collaborations with Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Berger and Elton John
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Legs McNeil talks to Billboard about the book he and Gillian McCain have been working on for 20 years - documenting the late ‘60s California music scene an...
Long before hip-hop commodified rebellion, and as early as 1964, artists like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Nina Simone, Les McCann, Marvin Gaye, The Temptat...
Actually, they are from the set of a TV show from the 1960s. The phrase "Daibau's" seems to be a clue. As does the time period: November 1964 (except for the on...
50 Years Ago, The Doors played in a Connecticut high school gym, second-billed to a beauty pageant, and WE WERE THERE…
by Charles Monagan
If we’ve been fort...
A Compendium of the Best Psychedelic Cinema of the 1960s
By Isabella Moulton
Many of us look back at the 1960s fondly and vicariously, through our modern ey...
These 10 Tunes Offer a Parallel Soundtrack to Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS series The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War—a war that was never actually “declared”—...
A look back at the racial tension that exploded in Detroit fifty years ago...and a selection of songs inspired by the 1967 uprising.
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A noisy, violent p...
We look back at two songs from the Vietnam War Era "Kill for Peace" and "Ballad of the Green Berets," and the musicians who recorded them
To the war maker...
