The 13th Floor Elevators is equal parts rock and roll icon and rock and roll cautionary tale: the band, which formed in Austin in 1965, was a very early pioneer of psychedelic rock (indeed, it coined ...

This week's cover story [“A Long Strange Trip”] on Tommy Hall, the LSD philosopher/electric jug player/lyricist for '60s psych band the 13th Floor Elevators, tells the story of an underground musical ...

Before psychedelics ran rampant across San Francisco and beyond in the late 1960s, Texas' 13th Floor Elevators were using LSD ...

We already knew Levitation, the renamed Austin Psych Festival was going to be amazing this year, but the festival dropped an explosive announcement this morning that takes it off the charts. The 13th ...

An all-seeing eye caps the psychedelic pyramid, but the cornerstone remains the 13th Floor Elevators. The Austin quintet's late-Sixties recordings, most notably the mind-expansive garage rock of their ...

Forty-six years ago today, rock and roll got a hell of a lot weirder in the state of Texas. On Nov. 30, 1966, Austin garage band The 13th Floor Elevators released their The Psychedelic Sounds Of album ...

The all-seeing eye atop the pyramid has finally awoken. Fifty years after forming and 45 since their last show, Texan psych rock pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators will reunite to play the Levitation ...

It's a good time to be a fan of the 13th Floor Elevators. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary Austin group, one of most influential psychedelic-rock bands of all time. Last week, ...

Anthology Editions has announced a new book about iconic psych rock band 13th Floor Elevators. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History will be released April 21. The book was written and curated by ...

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Roky Erickson, lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the psychedelic rock band The 13th Floor Elevators, died Friday in Austin, Texas, at age 71. By Chris Eggertsen, Billboard Roky Erickson, ...

Roky Erickson, who helped pioneer psychedelic rock in the 1960s as the howling, head-shaking frontman of The 13th Floor Elevators, then released a slew of haunting solo records amid a long battle with ...