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 ...

A local rocker and the owner of Carver neighborhood restaurant, Cobra Cabana, has released a heartfelt cover version of “I Walked With A Zombie,” a classic track by Texas psych rock pioneer, Roky ...

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 ...

Through two notable cult heroes – one seminal, the other unlikely – this week was an exceptional reprise of some historically distinctive moments. That 2008 performance in his native Austin was ...

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, ...

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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 ...

[GARAGE-PSYCH LEGEND] It's a heartbreaking story—half Syd Barrett with a bit of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the sort of thing that, even in Hollywood's dearest imaginings, just couldn't end ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Roky Erickson, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Texan who headed the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, a pioneering psychedelic rock band in the 1960s that scored with "You're Gonna Miss Me," ...