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Conspiranoia: Primus Go Down The Rabbit Hole

Primus takes a deep dive into the delirious world of modern conspiracy theory in the band’s new track.

Good Morning Starshine: The 1960s Easy-Listening Acid Trip

The odd parallel universe of easy-listening cover versions of revolutionary acid rock classics that proliferated in the 1960s.

Classic Albums Revisited: The Dangers Of Evil Blizzard

The unruly pleasures of ‘black psychedelia’ on the debut album from Preston’s finest masked madmen.

What Is A Happening? Man Alive Investigates The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream

The BBC TV documentary exploring the rise of the psychedelic underground in 1967.

No Matter How Great You Think The Beatles Were, You’re Wrong. They Were Even Greater

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Why the Fab Four really were fab.

Jesus Christ! The Unbearable Horrors Of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Bibilical Rock Opera

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The film version of the post-hippy reinterpretation of the Passion of the Christ tries hard but is ultimately hamstrung by the terrible, terrible songs.

These Are People Who Died: 2020

Looking back at the famous, the infamous and the interesting figures who we lost in the last year.

Granny Takes A Trip With The Purple Gang

The hippest shop of Swinging London and the unlikely pop song that it inspired.

Curious Alice: A Psychedelic Anti-Drug Film For Children

A trippy version of Alice in Wonderland aimed at putting kids off taking drugs.

Reflections Of Their Lives: The Fine Cuts Of Marmalade

Exploring the back catalogue of the Scottish Sixties popsters Marmalade.

Para Todos And The Art Nouveau Of J. Carlos

The incredible and stylish 1920s art nouveau magazine covers of Brazil’s José Carlos de Brito e Cunha.

Bringing In The Summer With Nikolas Schreck’s This Hideous Thing

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A Reprobate exclusive to mark the Summer Solstice: the bad-acid soaked, Sixties-invoking new video from Nikolas Schreck.