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 ...

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 ...

The context: Coming out of Texas, far outside the acknowledged countercultural hotbeds of the time, 13th Floor Elevators released one of the first and best psychedelic-rock albums, The Psychedelic ...

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 ...

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At 10pm Sunday on the Reverberation Stage, musicians tuned up, getting their levels right. Suddenly, an otherworldly, oscillating sound rose into the muggy night as jumbo jets flew overhead.

Next Friday, Oct. 28, Roky Erickson will perform at El Club. Today you have the opportunity to meditate on just how awesome that show will be while listening to the ...