At the three-quarter mark of Paul Drummond’s exhaustive (and exhaustingly detailed) band bio, Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound, the ...

Roky Erickson, an heroic icon of modern rock & roll and one of the best friends the music ever had, died in Austin, Texas today. Born there on July 15, 1947, Erickson had a visionary zeal rarely seen ...

We sadly lost psychedelic rock legend and 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson last week, and not surprisingly — since his influence spread far and wide — many musicians paid tribute to him ...

The father of Texas psychedelia and an originator of the garage rock template, Roky Erickson would have deserved a respected place in rock history if only for the ageless tracks he recorded with the… ...

The golden age of psychedelia certainly had its well-known icons. But for every big name in the genre, there’s at least another underrated musician who helped make the genre what it is today. I’d ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roky Erickson performing on the Second Stage at the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park in central London. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images ...

The singer, known as a pioneer in the psychedelic rock genre, helped found the 13th Floor Elevators when he was 18 Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock musician who started his career in the 1960s and ...

San Francisco’s rich psychedelic tradition is familiar to plenty of casual music fans. Flip through an archival Rolling Stone or tune into any classic rock radio station, and you’re sure to come ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roky Erickson — lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the psychedelic band the 13th Floor Elevators and one of the leading ...

Jeff Tweedy has released a cover of Roky Erickson’s “For You (I’d Do Anything),” from the upcoming compilation, May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to ...

The music business needs more people like Bill Bentley. The long time industry veteran has been a tireless supporter for many fringe artists, none more so than Roky Erickson. Over the decades, Bentley ...

When Roky Erickson’s 1981 cult classic album The Evil One was rereleased in 1987, it opened with the skronky “Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer),” a song loosely inspired by the believe-it-or-not head ...