Word: psychedelia
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...surprise that the Dylans' music strongly parallels their album jacket's blatant emulation of sunny psychedelia. A distorted organ introduces the opening track "She Drops Bombs" and is soon followed by heavily-produced Beatlesque harmonies...
Wednesday: an evening of psychedelia and flower power! with The Olivz, Love Pollution and Sidewalk Gallery, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...state of change and always mutating," Geoff Tate, lead singer of Queensryche, reminds us. "You're seeing the fusion of rock with funk. I mean, extreme ( black R.-and-B.-influenced rhythm sections." Also, a fearless rock band like Jesus Jones, fresh from London, manages to meld echoes of psychedelia with hot flashes of contemporary urban rhythm. The results are heady, challenging and abrasive, and unlikely to show up on a Subaru commercial anytime soon...
...INNOCENCE MISSION: THE INNOCENCE MISSION (A&M). Pleasing, slightly spacey sounds that are tinged with '60s folk rock and psychedelia, then spruced up with shades of Joni Mitchell ("I showed him my notebook/ The underside of my soul") and a little jolt of feminism. Overwrought -- but promising...
Manwaring was schooled in the dogmas of visual rationalism just at the moment when the crude baroque of psychedelia was popping up on posters all over San Francisco. That formative combination may explain why Manwaring still seeks to produce images on the border between the orderly and the wild, at once restrained and mannerist. A wine label for Sonoma County's small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within...