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This Pitchfork TV interview with Okkervil River is easily the best video interview that's appeared on the site-- the band sits down at a long table in some board room and talk about having a chore chart in the bus (which one of them calls un-rock-and-roll), the loaded notion of authenticity, and playing with Roky Erickson. There's a second part promised for tomorrow. [ Pitchfork TV ]
If it’s Christmas at You Ain’t No Picasso, that means it’s Mixmas! These twelve days give me a chance to turn You Ain’t No Picasso over to the musicians I cover and allow them to showcase some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. And if there’s one thing that’s always true, it’s that [...]
T he 13th Floor Elevators should need no introduction here at Digital Meltd0wn. I have covered their studio albums, as well as several solo albums by singer Roky Erickson, here in the past. This recording has been issued under various titles over the years, with the album cover and track listings for each version differing from one another. While this may be frustrating for collectors, what truly...
"If rap has ever produced a Syd Barrett it has probably been Kool Keith. Or maybe he is more of a Roky Erickson. Kool Keith was one of the founding members of the old school hip-hop combo The Ultramagnetic MCs. After the MCs imploded Keith kinda snapped and ended up in Bellevue City Mental Hospital where he suffered from what sounds like some sort of delusional schizophrenia. After release from the...
Originally uploaded by rockandeffinroll After what seemed like the longest opening set ever by the Black Angels, and I didn’t even see it from the start, Roky Erickson took the stage a little before 11pm. I had tried not to build up Roky’s performance too much in advance, just in case I might be let down. [...]
No one does Halloween like L.A. Here's what's to do: · Director Edgar Wright will host a double-feature at the New Beverly, including a screening of his own Shaun of the Dead, and Riki Oh:...
This might be old but I still love it!! Arcade Fire's Win & Regine + Redd Kross' Steve McDonald + Beck + R.E.M.'s + Joey Waronker + Buck 65 + Rilo Kiley's Jenny & Black + David Cross + Roky Erickson + Devendra Banhart + Sloan's Chris Murphy + Elvira, Mistress of the Dark + Smoosh's Asya & Chloe + Feist + Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore + Gino Washington + Sparks' Russel Mael + Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler...
This is where you will find Midnight and I tonight, happy to be able to finally see Roky, as we both missed him when he played at SXSW with Billy Gibbons earlier this year. D’oh! Our friends over at LA Record are presenting the show tonight and have been running a bunch Roky related stuff on [...]
…I’m not sure that’s what the string of dates is officially being billed as, but it’s my website and I’m in the mood to pretend. Cool? The Black Angels and psych-legend Roky Erickson (of 13th Floor Elevators fame) are touring together. Cool enough, right? Brace yourself, west coast readers…not only will The Black Angels open [...]
Roky Erickson (Austin, TX) LA Record just posted a fabulous interview with Roky Erickson and are giving away tickets to see the legendary performer with new backing band The Black Angels on Halloweeen Night at The El Rey. Head over to LA Record and take your stab at some Roky trivia to enter. Note you could probably google most answers. It's cheating but hey! GET 'DEM TICKETS SON!! WHAT
Tonight's show at Nectar with Collie Buddz , Rise of the Revolution got some love in both this week's My Philosophy and Data Breaker columns. Larry Mizell admits to liking the new Buddz single as much as cornbread while Dave Segal shines the spotlight on local opener DJ Collage . Also tonight, Lady Dottie & the Diamonds , whose new self-titled album got a three-star review in this week's paper. Lady...
Brother JT, a.k.a. John Terlesky, has been around the block a few times. This album, the first in five years under his moniker, is another stab at marrying the worlds of gospel, psychedelia, blues and pub rock. Terlesky joins forces with bass player Art DiFuria and drummer Jamie Knerr for this incarnation of his long-running project, creating an album so mired in the canonical range of punk-psych bands...
Black Angels vocalist Alex Maas is so excited it sounds as if he might leap through the phone and into my lap at any moment. His Austin-based, lysergic-leaning band has spent the past several weeks rehearsing with pioneering psychedelic folk hero Roky Eri...
