Roky Erickson and his ace band treated fans to a main set entirely comprised of 13th Floor Elevators songs at his first of two shows at Rough Trade (9/5), kicking things off with “Fire Engine” and ...

Long-running cowpunk band Hickoids traces its roots back to early-’80s Austin and San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Hickoids Central Texas cowpunk act Hickoids is raising money for a good cause ...

Recently, we chatted with Mark Iosifescu, an editor for Anthology Editions, the publisher behind the newly released “13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History,” by Paul Drummond, who discusses the 13th ...

Paul Drummond undoubtedly knows more about Texas psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators than anyone else. He wrote the band’s definitive biography, Eye Mind, and contributed to both of the band’s ...

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 ...

Roky Erickson backstage at Skip Willy’s in San Antonio on Oct. 30, 1979 Credit: Photo by Clyde Kimsey / Courtesy of the Wittliff Collections Roky Erickson backstage at Skip Willy’s in San Antonio on ...

Pitchfork Book Club highlights today’s best new music books. The story of the 13th Floor Elevators is often told in sudden bursts and strange visions—part earthly chaos, part hallucination. The ...

This was a sweet surprise which hit the Internet this past year, along the same lines as that super 8 footage of the Shaggs that showed up on YouTube (before quickly being yanked by the person who ...

Austin artist John Cleveland designed the pyramid-and-eye album cover and adapted it into the logo on John Ike Walton’s drums. The words floated into my dreamworld, twisting and sliding throughout ...