So as we sign off for the week, our Friday flashback track goes all the way back to 1967. It is the13th Floor Elevators from their 2nd LP, Easter Everywhere. This is Levitation .
This is all sorts of rad, so we had to pass it along. Austin Psych Fest shared this gem from the 1990 covers compilation, Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye; A Tribute To Roky Erickson. " The album was produced with the intention of raising money and exposing his music to a wider audience." So if you haven't already, check that out, you can pick it up at all the usual digital music retailers. This is The Jesus & Mary Chain's contribution to said record, it's their take on Reverberation (Doubt) by the 13th Floor Elevators. Check [...]
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photo: 'party crashers' song: 13th floor elevators - "may the circle remain unbroken" [stream only] ( buy ) 'we don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.' - anais nin pain is an amazing thing, really. obviously it's terrible in a lot of ways; it's difficult and it's too close for comfort and its long-term effects take too long to process. some pain is fresh and some residual and some - more than we like to acknowledge - lasts forever. pain is a beautiful thing, however, because it indicates that [...]
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photo: 'party crashers' song: 13th floor elevators - "may the circle remain unbroken" [stream only] ( buy ) 'we don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.' - anais nin pain is an amazing thing, really. obviously it's terrible in a lot of ways; it's difficult and it's too close for comfort and its long-term effects take too long to process. some pain is fresh and some residual and some - more than we like to acknowledge - lasts forever. pain is a beautiful thing, however, because it indicates that [...]
The Youth skriver i en pressemeddelse, at de er fast besluttede på at prøve at få 60'ernes bluesprægede garagerock tilbage på teenage værelserne. På dette cover af Low's "Just Like Christmas" gør de en så god figur, at det ikke er usandsynligt, at de kan nå i land med den ambition. Bandet har rumsteret i undergrunden en rum tid og forsøgt at finde frem til deres udtryk. Efter en turbulent padlen mellem forskellige genrer — bl.a. den elektroniske musik, er The Youths endelige udtryk nu blevet etableret, bl.a. hjulpet [...]
SINGLE REVIEW: This is going to be quick, easy and painless for you psych rock fans. Actually you may have never heard of them until now but I think you owe yourself this if you're a Black Angels fan to check this groovy band out. New Animal are from Atlanta, Georgia which is basically two guys Kris Hermstad and Derek Burdette, actually now I think they have fired their drum machine and have a drummer to drag on stage. Which is the only respectable thing to do. What may have started off as a bed room recording experiment [...]
Bull Of The Woods (an International Artists release) is the Elevators most controversial offering. Some fans claim it's their best LP but many, myself included, feel Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere are the group's finest discs. Frequent personnel changes, drug busts and Roky Erickson's fragile state had destroyed the original core of Sutherland, Hall and Erickson. Stacy Sutherland was the only original member left by 1968 and he made a game effort by putting together some newly recorded "solo" tracks with older, stray Elevator tunes that were cut during the previous year. The excellent [...]
Part I of songs played before each band at The Omens / The Christines / Overcasters show this past Saturday at the Hi-Dive. PLAYLIST: The Kinks - Sittin' On My Sofa Them - I Can Only Give You Everything Crocodiles - Mirrors Doves - Push Me On The Rolling Stones - Stupid Girl The Velvet Undergound - I Can't Stand It The La's - Way Out The Dandy Warhols - Down Like Disco 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me The Monks - [...]
One of the albums I've been consistently playing over the last year has been Primal Scream's 1991 release Screamadelica. It is a timeless piece of music that is widely acclaimed as one of the best albums of the 1990s, yet I've found that not very many people in and around Gen Y are familiar with it. Its originality came from merging dub, gospel and experimental sounds with big house drums and rhythms. This often resulted in a very trippy, spaced-out sound, which was probably in no small part an affect of their heavy drug intake at the time. [...]
A comprehensive retrospective of 'the fearless trailblazers of psychedelia and one of the most kick-ass rock bands ever..' for your perusal today; The 13th Floor Elevators were THE original kaleidoscopic band, you can now pick up 'The Album Collection' which contains their three studio albums (The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor, Easter Everywhere & Bull Of The Woods) plus a live performance. The albums have all been remixed and remastered by original producer Walt Andrus. We feature the blistering 'You're Gonna Miss Me' from the 'Live' LP (With added fake applause) 13th Floor [...]
" The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic music; many have cited them as the first true psychedelic rock band, and if they weren't, they certainly predated most of the San Francisco bands that gave the sound a global audience. The Elevators played a bracing fusion of garage rock and genre-defying musical exploration powered by Roky Erickson's feral vocals and rhythm guitar, Stacy Sutherland's concise but agile lead guitar work, and Tommy Hall's amplified jug playing, the latter of which gave them a sound unlike any other in rock. The Elevators were also exploring the [...]
Words and photos by Brendan Recipe : Scrumptious Psychedelic Rock Concert. Ingredients : 1 smoke machine, 1 trippy optical illusion wall hanging, 1 old converted church-cum-concert venue, 2 awesome bands. Directions : For appetizer Suuns , sauté trippy guitar lines and entrancing drums and synths for 30 minutes on medium heat; turn to high intermittently, adding a dash of vocals to taste. For main course The Black Angels , simmer rich guitar and bass tones in a base of pounding drum broth; stir in echoey vocals [...]
Words and photos by Brendan Recipe : Scrumptious Psychedelic Rock Concert. Ingredients : 1 smoke machine, 1 trippy optical illusion wall hanging, 1 old converted church-cum-concert venue, 2 awesome bands. Directions : For appetizer Suuns , sauté trippy guitar lines and entrancing drums and synths for 30 minutes on medium heat; turn to high intermittently, adding a dash of vocals to taste. For main course The Black Angels , simmer rich guitar and bass tones in a base of pounding drum broth; stir in echoey vocals [...]
ALBUM REVIEW: Howdy psychedelic music fans here's some jams from a Moscow band called June Hunters . If you are a aficionado of Psych Rock and house of LSD's light touch like faves 13th Floor Elevators or Black Angels you might dig this trip. They are pretty good genre emulators and I think we have the internets to thank. They verge a little on a 802s alternative interpretation similar to The Psychedelic Furs with the use of some of the extra keyboard sounds. They are power trio and none too far off of what The Faint [...]
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Okay, this may seem really half-assed but today we're going to piggyback on (steal?) a great article in Goldmine magazine where they rate the best and worst of the exclusive vinyl available on Record Store Day. That's Saturday, at your friendly neighborhood record store. You can read the Goldmine story here , but we just want to touch on a couple of their top picks ... keep in mind, this is highly subjective. You really ought to check out the [...]
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You (1972): Tonight's show features "Stuck in the Middle with You," the classic tune from 1972 by all-but-forgotten Irish Folk/Rolkers Stealers Wheel . The song was a planned success and peaked in 1973 at #6 on Billboard's Top 100 charts. Ironically, it is a rebuff of corporate practices, shrouded in bubblegum folk/pop, designed to achieve chart success by parodying Bob Dylan's vocal styling. Most of you will remember the scene from Reservoir Dogs that continues to re-ignite interest in [...]
Se o Crystal Stilts tinha alguma pretensão de ser esquecido, melhor desistir. O tão aguardado segundo disco da banda surgiu hoje em todos detalhes e só fez aumentar aquela expectativa criada após o espetacular primeiro álbum, Alight Of Night , de 2008. Antes de In Love With Oblivion ficar pronto e aparecer, porém, o Crystal Stilts foi soltando algumas músicas e instigando ainda mais seu público. É o caso da ótima Shake The Shackles , que você ouve aqui: O disco chega às lojas da Europa [...]
When books are at their best they teach us not only about the lives of others but something about ourselves. That's why it is important to any culture that it has as diverse a selection of voices and writers as possible. White males, Scottish or otherwise, have been overrepresented historically and artistically, and anyone who [...]
It's no secret that Austin psych-rockers The Black Angels were influenced by fellow Austinites 13th Floor Elevators, the underrated late sixties group that is often credited with the birth of American psychedelia. 13th Floor Elevators' frontman, Roky Erickson, did a couple of stints in mental institutions in the early seventies ...
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