Roky Erickson should have been one of rock & roll’s biggest tragedies. In the late 1960s, drugs, mental illness and institutionalization collided for the pioneering 13th Floor Elevators frontman. His ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

I saw Roky Erickson perform exactly once in my life, at Øyafestivalen in Norway. This was 2007, a big year for the artist, who played Coachella and Lollapalooza and was the subject of a bittersweet ...

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Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock 'n' roll pioneer who fronted the 13th Floor Elevators, died of unknown causes Friday in Austin, Texas, Rolling Stone reported. He was 71. “Roky Erickson, an heroic ...

Psych icon Roky Erickson, last in NYC back in September, will be touring this fall, including an East Coast / Midwest run that includes DC, the Boston area, Philly, Toronto, Detroit and a NYC-area ...

It’s Record Store Day, and Roky Erickson has just finished signing autographs at Waterloo Records in his hometown of Austin, Texas. Now, he’s treating himself to ice cream—rocky road!—as his partner, ...

The story of Roky Erickson is one of the most intriguing and sad in the history of rock and roll: Young man from Texas joins rock group called 13th Floor Elevators, pioneers psychedelic music, gets ...

Austin, Texas. 1966. Eighteen-year-old Roky Erickson drops out of high school to form the Spades, and writes what, to our mind, is one of the best rock ‘n’ roll songs of all time: “You’re Gonna Miss ...

The Tallest Man On Earth is playing a show at Union Hall on April 14th (tickets are on sale). That’s one day before the previously announced show at Bowery Ballroom (tix still on sale). Both NYC shows ...

For those who may require a palate cleanser after a long Jazz Fest season of brass, funk, gospel and classic rock: Roky Erickson and Thurston Moore are coming tonight to create a disturbance in your ...