On October 6th, 1966, nearly a thousand participants and three bands – including the Grateful Dead – gathered in the Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to observe the criminalization of LSD ...

Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelics, and some of its best-known leaders have tried, like Bill Gates, Sam ...

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 ...

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, ...

LSD, ecstasy (MDMA) and other psychedelics are powerful, mind-altering drugs that, as described by former Washington Post Magazine editor Tom Shroder, "intrinsically [challenge] the rationalist, ...

Roger Steffens' life is the stuff movies and books are made of, which makes us think that truth is really stranger than fiction. From dropping acid with Hunter S. Thompson to going on tour with Bob ...

If you can remember the 1960s, the old quip goes, you weren’t really part of them. By that standard, the most authentic participants ended up as what used to be called “acid casualties”: those who ...

So this is why they call it the Golden State, images like the one currently scrolling across my screen in Brooklyn, of two figures racing through tall grasses and over the hills into a filmy, ...

After eight years of radio silence, Acid King are back with their new album, Beyond Vision, out now via Blues Funeral Recordings. The new album dives more heavily into psychedelia and progressive ...