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 ...

Three kings: (l-r) Jerry Jeff Walker, Roky Erickson, and Doug Sahm perform at Margaret Moser’s private birthday party bash on May 16, 1977, at Gemini’s Club on Guadalupe. Credit: Photo by Ken Hoge As ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Reports started piling up swiftly on social networks at quitting time. Reports finally verified it around 5pm. An epitaph suddenly appearing atop son Jegar Erickson‘s Facebook page proved all the ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Roky Erickson — lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the psychedelic band the 13th Floor Elevators and one of the leading lights of Texas rock — died Friday in Austin. He was 71. Erickson’s ...

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," ...

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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 ...