Influential Reprise Records president and free speech advocate Howie Klein has died aged 77, leaving a lasting legacy across music and politics.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter and Dayton native Troy Campbell — co-founder of alt-country band Loose Diamonds (briefly known early on as The Highwaymen) — is reissuing his landmark second solo record, ...
Yo La Tengo’s annual Hanukkah celebration continued last night, Dec. 15, as the indie icons presented the second performance in their eight-show residency ...
Charles Erickson, who spent 18 years in prison for the murder of Columbia Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, was released from prison Monday. Erickson pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing Heitholt. His ...
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 ...
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 ...
There’s a new Roky Erickson tribute album titled May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute To Roky Erickson on the way in time for the latest Record Store Day Drop in a few weeks. One of the ...
2021 marks two years since the world lost psychedelic-rock pioneer Roky Erickson, best known both his solo work and for being the leader of The 13th Floor Elevators. Archival label Light in the Attic ...
The troubled Texan psychedelic rock legend and 13th Floor Elevators leader Roky Erickson died in 2019, and next month, many of his admirers will salute him by covering his songs. The forthcoming ...
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 ...
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Light in the Attic has announced May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, a new compilation album gathering covers of the late psych rock pioneer’s songs recorded by various artists ...