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For an accused Devil worshipper, AFI’s Davey Havok is a damned nice guy
Pondering the paradox of the rock virtuoso with guitar legend Steve Vai
Ram Dass shines a light on attachment, psychedelic drugs, out-of-body experiences, the ’60s revolution and more.
In celebration of Beck’s solo acoustic show at The Rio, GT explores Song Reader, the alternative rock icon’s most ambitious interactive art...
Celebrating world culture and exorcising demons with Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry
Janis Ian: still a voice for the marginalized
A local devotional singer and her yogi parents are raising consciousness and making miracles happen.
The Doors’ Ray Manzarek and slide guitar virtuoso Roy Rogers on performing, grasping the infinite moment and teaching Jim Morrison to sing
The final weeks of 2012 bring us the release of The Hobbit, the end of the Mayan calendar and the world’s first...
You don’t have to be high to appreciate High On Fire’s music…but it helps
GT gets a shot in the arm from Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction
A community of local visionary artists is making higher consciousness visible
Cheb i Sabbah has the vinyl solution to global turmoil
Playing in Primus has twisted Larry LaLonde’s mind for good
Weekend after weekend, the salty air of Beach Street fills with the screams of Boardwalk patrons on mechanical thrill rides. Folks from...
With ‘American Idol’ behind him and a hot new debut album, James Durbin talks candidly about the power of belief, life before...
Pixies’ Joey Santiago on the making of an alt-rock classic
He’s lampooned hernias, morbid obesity and surgical catastrophies. Now Weird Al shows us the lighter side of the apocalypse.
Local psychedelic visionary David Jay Brown has peered deeply into the nature of human awareness, bonded with the greatest thinkers of our...
Dark entries from the Gothfather himself, Peter Murphy
Quirky new downtown shop dispenses natural highs
Burning questions for the crown princes of cannabis, Cheech & Chong
Paula Poundstone brings her quick wit to The Rio.
Long before Umi was a Zen master in the Santa Cruz Mountains, he was a seafaring rock radio pioneer who riled the...
When your internal DJ won’t stop playing an infuriatingly catchy song, you’ve got yourself an earworm. Our intrepid reporter dissects the tunes...
They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh on living with a split personality
Why are we so fascinated with the end of the world?
The Glitch Mob’s Justin Boreta lives up to his band’s name in a bug-riddled phone chat
Local nonprofit MAPS makes history with hit conference on psychedelic science
Pat Metheny’s robot band rocks the Civic