John Swenson has long told me about the brilliance of the Holy Modal Rounders, but for years I didn’t hear what he heard. ESP-Disc recently re-released 1967’s Indian War Whoop and put out the ...

Don Giovanni Records has announced the upcoming 55th anniversary super deluxe reissue of The Holy Modal Rounders psychedelic masterpiece Indian War Whoop. What started as a psych-folk duo, led by ...

From the Godz to the Fugs to Charles Manson himself, ESP Disk has always had a soft spot for the anarchic side of folk. The Holy Modal Rounders, while perhaps a little less infamous than their label ...

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Bird song -- One will do for now -- Take-off artist song -- Werewolf -- Interlude -- Dame fortune -- Mobile line -- The duji song -- My mind capsized -- The STP song -- Interlude 2 -- Half a mind -- ...

WHEN YOU INTERVIEW bands, you tend to get a lot of half-ass, boring answers that don’t reveal jack shit about anything. Peter Stampfel is the direct opposite. Stampfel’s Holy Modal Rounders did things ...