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Berkeley's Kaleidoscope was the first band to fully integrate non-Western music and pop. It produced some of the first antiwar songs within the emerging counterculture and was known in the late sixties for eclectic albums that drew from bluegrass, blues, Cajun music, Middle Eastern music and acid rock, using various exotic instruments. Its live act included flamenco and belly dancers, but its albums were largely ignored. The band broke up after the drug-related death of guitarist Jeff Kaplan....more

  • Why Rock and Funny Just Don't Mix

    by Bob HillJune 11, 2008Comments (50)

    Rock ‘n’ roll is serious business. It’s about grit and guts, struggle and adversity, triumph and tribulation, love and loss. It’s about the grand themes that govern our lives (read more)

  • The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco

    by Paul WilliamsFebruary 27, 2008Comments (5)

    But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment (read more)

  • British Sea Power

    by Aaron SankinFebruary 13, 2008Comments (1)

    "there’s a strong Brit-pop undercurrent at work here" (read more)

  • Cat Power

    by Bob HillJanuary 16, 2008Comments (3)

    "slow and sure, sultry and sincere" (read more)