"Counterculture" Blogs & Blog Posts

Inside a San Francisco basement lies The Basement, a clubhouse/community space/museum where a collection of 3,000 VHS tapes—mostly of the outré, psychotronic, cult, or just bizarre variety—are preserved, archived, and, on Wednesday nights, scree...

In "Word Processing: The Pivot Point," an industrial film exhumed from the crypt of 1975, we witness the collision of the countercultural zeitgeist with the inexorable march of corporate mechanization. At first glance, this celluloid relic appears to...

In this 1969 footage from the CBC, a group of Druids perform a Summer Solstice ritual while the "hippies" observe with curiosity. "Both virtual defy description," says the newscaster. "They were at it from midnight until midday—the Druids in th...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises — and, in this episode, rare archives of underground counterculture newspapers! Hi, everyone, welcome back to the s...

Oh, to be a slacker, settling into the haze of a mid-day bong rip, brain burnt to a crisp by the mind-numbing cycle of your corporate day job, with no ambition or goals whatsoever except figuring out what fast food establishment you’re going to fre...

Last month, the organization behind Burning Man announced that the festival/experience would not be returning to the desert of Nevada this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and would instead be attempting a virtual event, once again aiming to bring a...

If you’re high right now, here’s a question that might cause your brain to short-circuit: Why exactly do we associate pot with 4/20? Is it the birthday of some mythological cannabis deity? Does it have something to do with the end of the semester...