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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pioneering psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators are going to reunite at the Levitation Festival in Austin this May. The Texas band achieved national success with their hit “You’re Gonna to Miss ...

Even if they never play live again, 13th Floor Elevators’ place in the psych-rock canon is secure. The hugely influential Austin, Texas-based band released one of the first psychedelic records, The ...

Roky Erickson, the former singer of Texas-based psychedelic rock band The 13th Floor Elevators, has died at the age of 71 on Friday, his brother Sumner told the Austin American-Statesman on ...

They were right; we really did miss them! The 13th Floor Elevators, the pioneering psychedelic Texas band, broke up in 1969, and they haven’t gotten back together since. The band had an unhinged, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...