angels of catastrophe

his first book, Kaleidoscope Eyes (Citadel), rock journalist, rabblerouser, and former Chicago Sun-Times pop editor Jim DeRogatis persuasively argues that psychedelic music did not die in the '60s. Instead, DeRogatis draws the connection between Ken Kesey's acid tests and My Bloody Valentine's guitar tapestries, the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" and De La Soul's "Three Feet High and Rising," Pink Floyd and Portishead, Amon Duul II and Husker Du.