This song has to be one of the most memorable one-hit wonders in folk to come out of the 1960s. It’s a certified flower power track from 1968 that helped popularize the “husband and wife” duo trope in ...

Paul McCartney heard rumors of the wild goings-on in the Haight and visited on April 4, 1967. At the Fillmore Auditorium, he listened to a rehearsal by the Jefferson Airplane. At Marty Balin’s and ...

In most histories, the counterculture of the 1960s is usually considered a youth culture. In terms of sheer numbers, this is true, given that the majority of its adherents were people under the age of ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com The youthful exuberance and freewheeling idealism that burst forth ...

shadowy, unsettling albums that signalled the ’60s dream was dying – and something stranger and darker was coming ...

Former Los Angeles Times man Jim Newton, in his book Here Beside the Rising Tide, picked a representative subject through which to judge the achievements and excesses of the 1960s counterculture: ...

Before the counterculture of the 1960s, before modern psychedelic therapy, magic mushrooms were already part of the story — even in the American West. Cowboys, explorers, and settlers encountered ...