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🎶 Roots, Rock, Reggae 🎶

The word "psychedelic" was invented during a poetry battle. Aldous Huxley proposed "phanerothyme" with the line: "To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme." Psychiatrist Humphry Osmond countered: "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." Osmond won. He debuted the word at the New York Academy of Sciences in 1957. We almost ended up calling them "phanerothymes."

#oldskool #rave #80s #90s

A huge ??? was spotted near Saturn's rings in an amateur photo. This fragment shows a large object with a clear silhouette near the planet. By Bb54

@HipHopSince76_ 👀 ppg wave

Pass The Dutchie #MusicalYouth #SundayMood

Chaka Khan behind the drum kit

THE BLACKBYRDS ROCK CREEK PARK (1975)

Seamus Heaney

‘La Murga’ fue la pieza que eligieron los trombonistas de Nueva York para despedir esta mañana a Willie Colón, aquí otro ángulo de este momento:

Wishing a happy birthday to George Coleman Sr. and Gábor Szabó. It was always an honor to take the bandstand and record with both of these gentlemen.

March 8, 1990: Queen Latifah released the single “Come Into My House” from her debut studio album “All Hail The Queen”, on Tommy Boy. 📹: Club MTV with host @DTJB 
🎧: tommyboyrecords.lnk.to/AllHailTheQueen

Happy International Women’s Day!

De La Soul, New York, 1989.

great, now they’ll say THAT’S bad for you

Rockers (1978) The iconic film on 1970s Jamaican reggae roots culture. A raw, rhythmic exploration of Kingston’s musical livity and the spiritual heartbeat of Rastafarian life. Directed by Ted Bafaloukos.

Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face

Imagine hearing these two on a record together😍