The best and worst of the ‘60s intersect in 1967’s ‘Monterey Pop’ and a new Vietnam documentary Learn More →

After 50 years, Peter Coyote still hasn’t changed his opinion on the Summer of Love. “It was crap,” the 75-year-old Coyote says. “Who cares?” Learn More →

In 1967, an ocean away from the escalating Vietnam War, the Summer of Love bloomed with psychedelic colors in San Francisco’s Haight  Ashbury neighborhood. Most of us remember the two events as distinct phenomena: One was a story of firebases, napalm, jungles and the draft; the other of communes, L.S.D., flowers and rock music. In fact, the two were inextricably linked. Learn More →

Familiarity with a trivial pop tune should not be mistaken for historical knowledge. If we want to understand why any song becomes popular or what it signified when it first was heard, we need to know both the social and political events surrounding its publication as well as what music, in general, was undergoing at the time. Learn More →