Who better to spend the holidays with than John Waters? Few artists are as festive as Mr. Waters, who releases holiday covers and tours with A John Waters Christmas — evenings of storytelling and indispensable life advice from the filmmaker behind Female Trouble, Hairspray, Polyester, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos, to name a few of… Keep Reading
Who better to spend the holidays with than John Waters? Few artists are as festive as Mr. Waters, who releases holiday covers and tours with A John Waters Christmas — evenings of storytelling and indispensable life advice from the filmmaker behind Female Trouble, Hairspray, Polyester, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos, to name a few of… Keep Reading
John Roberts has never been easy to categorize. He is known to millions as the voice of Linda Belcher from “Bob’s Burgers,” but he has carved out a musical identity that sits comfortably between club culture, queer art, New York grit, and his own eccentric humor. His new single, “Stoney Holiday,” released on X-Bop Records,… Keep Reading
By the time John Backer lights up, you already know the vibe. The Los Angeles native behind the band We Knew Nothing speaks fast, laughs easily, and treats creative choices like sacred oaths. He rolls blunts in the studio because it settles the mind, then chases songs that feel true in his bones. If he… Keep Reading
John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76. Known to most as the frontman of Black Sabbath and a solo force of nature, Ozzy wasn’t just the godfather of heavy metal — he was one of us. A weed-smoking, boundary-breaking, chaos-loving rock and roll outlaw who never stopped waving the freak… Keep Reading
Political activist, icon, and poet John Sinclair, 82, passed away of congestive heart failure Tuesday morning. Sinclair would have otherwise appeared at Ann Arbor Hash Bash in Michigan this Saturday to show support for pot reform. Sinclair advocated to legalize pot as early as 1965, joining his mentors like Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders. Beyond… Keep Reading
By John A. Keel You say you’ve never been hypnotized and, in fact, you regard yourself as too strong-willed, with such a towering intellect that you never could be hypnotized? Despite your overbearing ego, chances are that you have been zapped into a hypnotic trance many times… and completely without your knowledge or permission. A… Keep Reading
By John Veit A hundred years from now, Avram Noam Chomsky is going to figure in the history books as the prime voice of conscience, dissent and reason in the wars and social catastrophes of the late 20th century. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s, he began an intellectual revolution in the… Keep Reading
By Steve Bloom “The bus was busted!” HIGH TIMES Executive Editor John Holmstrom informed me as I walked into the office, only hours before my train to Toledo was scheduled to leave. It was March 28th—just four days before the Hash Bash, the main event on the spring Hemp Tour. I was planning to catch… Keep Reading
By David Rensin “Life is pretty dull if we have no surprises.” – Dr. John C. Lilly “Me? I love tanks.” – General George Patton The mouth of the tank lay open before me. Naked and expectant. I stepped into the warm salty water. I stretched out as the lid was fixed behind me, and… Keep Reading
