Before there was Woodstock, there was the Sky River Rock Festival. On Labor Day weekend in 1968, nearly a year before Woodstock, tens of thousands of young longhairs gathered on a raspberry farm near ...

In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove, known ...

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the huge outdoor music festival (and social event) held in August of 1969, a community radio station, school district and some budding artists ...

Based on Dr. Oliver Sacks' case-study essay "The Last Hippie," writer/director Jim Kohlberg's drama "The Music Never Stopped" -- currently showing at the Sundance Film Festival and opening nationwide ...

Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk music, has ...

Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the 1970s The Me Decade—responding to 1960s hippie communalism with asserted individualism. And singers and musicians from that decade are certainly voicing themselves now 40 ...

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? That’s the question that we should be asking in light of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Hippie values and culture have been taking a ...

(Reuters) -Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk ...