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 ...

’60s psych lovers The Black Angels and an actual ’60s psych legend Roky Erickson recently kicked off a tour together that brought the fellow Austinites to NYC for a free Converse Rubber Tracks Live ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Lemonheads returned to late-night television this week with their first appearance in nearly three decades, performing two songs on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday.

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 ...

"We have a clear signal!" Roky Erickson beams over the phone from his home in Austin, Texas, where he recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Everyone was invited. "We did have a good time," he says. A ...

[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, a brilliant and troubled Texas musician whose band the 13th Floor Elevators pioneered the psych-rock genre, has died, according to a public Facebook post by his brother, Mikel. “The ...

Making his debut in 1966 at only 19 years old, Roky Erickson, then frontman of psychedelic pioneers and garage-rock proto-punks 13th Floor Elevators, had not yet begun his decades-long downward spiral ...