13th Floor Elevators

"Though grounded in a traditional rock line up of guitar/vocals (Logan Middleton), bass (Sean Neesely), drums (Grant Van Amburgh), and organ (performed on FEVER by Austin Jenkins and Logan Middleton), The Laughing also utilizes a vast array of percussion, bells, dulcimers, ukuleles, synths, clarinets, flutes, blankets of noise and lush harmonies. Varied instrumentation and ornamental arrangements adorn core song structures and melodies that take cues from the likes of Harry Nilsson, Os Mutantes, Jorge Bem, Silver Apples, Love, Roxy Music, Sonic Youth, 13th Floor Elevators and more". Read More

The Beatles boxes included ashes of John and George, Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 had R2-D2-type holograms, and 13th Floor Elevators bomb shelter Sign of the 3 Eyed Men came with real eyeballs. Read More

If your new band features members of Portal , it's safe to say that riffs wil be grotesque and utterly badass. Read More

There’s vengeful ghosts and wagon trains and even the founders of the 13th Floor Elevators hiding in the individual histories of Leslie and the Badgers—and you’ll hear them clearly as they show up, one by one, in these artful (but exciting!) canyon-country songs. Singer Leslie... Read More

Describing their sound as "A kick in the teeth…..with a load of reverb", Speak & The Spells formed somewhere deep inside their collective vinyl collection. Read More

I had forgotten how brilliant The Dukes Of Stratosphear were. Read More

two headed dog lets him show off his john fogerty hollering chops over some equally creedencey stomp and choogle. night of the vampire has a stumbling grind (probably why the entombed cover works so well). don't shake me lucifer gets into a whole big epinephrine shot of rhythm and blues, chuck berry-style. not forgetting the fifties teen ballad i walked with a zombie. the best doo-wop song about the undead the crests never wrote. and this is before i get into the electric autoharp and the disturbing treated vocals on creatures with the atom brain (beautiful vhs video below): remember buchanan? but you're not buchanan. i don't look like him, but i am him. don't you recognize the voice jim? i promised to see you die. yup. as far as i'm concerned it's up there with easter everywhere. reduced it's just an ass-kicking rock and roll record. but one given a big-ass jolt of an electric charge by the genuine torment underpinning it's ec comics psychopathology. Read More

"We have recorded some hippie songs, from the sixties, bands like The 13th Floor Elevators , Byrds , Jefferson Airplane and stranger Aquarian folks. We aim to make this into a full album, a kind of Ulver kicking against the pricks." Read More

I stumbled upon the Black Elevators, or rather they stumbled upon me, when they sent me a friend invite on myspace. Read More

The mental meltdown and decades-long recovery of 13th Floor Elevators vocalist Roky Erikson has become one of rock music's great redemption tales. Read More