The Beatles An ear-opening new special edition of The Beatles masterpiece, Revolver, is coming next month Gareth Branwyn

music The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant is a fascinating experiment Thom Dunn

psychedelic pop Easy-Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride through Sixties Psychedelic Pop Mark Frauenfelder

cats Louis Wain cat paintings found in dumpster Rob Beschizza

Science Johns Hopkins lecturer paints 1,150 cigarettes after psilocybin trip Ellsworth Toohey

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

arizona Free festival turns 5,000-person mining town into musical maze Jennifer Sandlin

georgia Visit Howard Finster's Paradise Garden and more on this funky art sites road trip! Jennifer Sandlin

Going back in time with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Mark Cerulli

music Cyberculture pioneer RU Sirius's new album of "rhymes against reality" David Pescovitz

chemistry Silica gel's secret history and path to worldwide ubiquity Allan Rose Hill

drugs Police seize tons of illegal "love honey," a natural aphrodisiac that's far from natural Allan Rose Hill

travel The Grimbsy Beach Cottages are works of art Popkin

Entertainment How Uruguay's answer to The Beatles shaped Latin American rock in the 1960s Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment "Chainsaw Jerry" reveals untold stories from Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie 50 years later Mark Cerulli

graphic novels An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks Mark Frauenfelder

art Surreal stratacut animation by Ellard Devane Popkin

psychedelics UCLA plans a garden for tripping during psychedelic medicine studies Allan Rose Hill

Budokan Boys make nightmarish saxophone-laden synth pop Natalie Dressed

The Beatles Experience "Rubber Soul" anew with this bass-and-drums-only version Mark Frauenfelder