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, ...

After you trip life opens up / You start doing what you want to do / And you find out that the world that you once feared / Gets what it has from you Erickson sang that lyric on "Roller Coaster", the ...

For years, festivals have provided a good opportunity for long-dormant bands to reunite. The Levitation Festival, which will be held in Austin, TX, from May 8-10, has persuaded the surviving original ...

The four surviving original members of psychedelic rock legends The 13th Floor Elevators reunited for their first show since 1968 at hometown festival Levitation (fka Austin Psych Fest) this past ...

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 ...

The Black Angels are a trip to see in concert. The last time they played the Bluebird, they opened with “Manipulation” — a twisted love song from their 2006 cult hit Passover — in the cover of almost ...