A Day-Glo excerpt from Tom Wolfe’s ‘Electric Kool Aid Acid Test’…
A journey through the early New York graffiti/hip hop scene with the enigma known as Rammellzee…
Exploring the link between psychedelic counterculture and the origins of disco…
We had a number of our inspirations up on the wall at our 14 Hour Super Weird Happening. Here’s what we wrote about them in the event’s programme…
Today marks the 50th anniversary of The Human Be-In, an event at San Franscisco’s Golden Gate Park that saw a widespread countercultural awakening amongst the disaffected student communities of the area and a turning point in the transition from beat to hippie culture…
On 1st January 1987, Bill Drummond called up Jimmy Cauty to ask him if he wanted to form a hip-hop group called The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu. Knowing exactly where he was coming from, Cauty agreed…
In 1927, Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung had a vision of Liverpool in a dream that would go on to forever reshape the psyche of a city he’d never actually visited…
The first claims of extraterrestrial communication, I had found, were made by the electronics pioneers Marconi and Tesla. Both were ridiculed and simply stopped discussing the subject…
