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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. Contributors include Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Margo Price, Neko Case, Ty Segall, Gary Clark Jr. and Eve Monsees, Lucinda Williams, and Chelsea Wolfe. The album arrives July 17 as a Record Store Day exclusive vinyl release; there will be a bonus RSD-only flexi-disc, too, featuring a previously unreleased Erickson track called “L...

One of the best shows to ever grace the impressive gallery at Austin’s much-missed Alien Landscape by Powell St. John (1994) That display of arcane signage from the historical doings of Masons, Oddfellows, Rosicrucians, et al., came about because Domy’s Russell Etchen, always savvy about the aesthetically odd and compelling, had hooked up businesswise with Julie and Bruce Webb of the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. The Webb Gallery is located on the ground floor of a downtown build...

100 best albums from the 60s Ellen Dewitt, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail 100 best albums from the 60s Few people would dispute the claim that the 1960s produced a generous crop of influential albums. But few people would likely agree on exactly which albums deserve such a claim. Stacker compiled the top 100 albums according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on 40,000 editorial and data-based charts such as Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and B...

09 02 2021 INSPIRED BY PUNK, angered by Thatcher and in love with ’60s culture, the UK indie scene produced some of the greatest (and oddest) pop records of all time. It all began on December 28, 1976 at Indigo Studios on Gartside Street in Manchester. The Buzzcocks had just recorded and mixed four songs destined for the Spiral Scratch EP. A month later the EP would be released on the band’s own New Hormones label, in the process spawning a scene of musicians, songwriters and labels hell-be...

Psych-Rocking Dreams By JUAN R. GOVEA Bartlett: “I did remember what I was going for and thought that I could recreate the spirit and sound of what … I tried to do back then.” Photo by Emily Rose Burek. In 1968, back when Texas’ legendary psych-rock scene was emerging, a young folk musician by the name of Johndavid Bartlett signed a record deal with the Lone Star State’s premier psych-rock label, the Houston-based International Artists. Two labelmates, the 13th Floor Elevators and Th...

Unexpectedly, one of the most beautiful and hopeful albums of the year comes from Black Angels singer Alex Maas. Luca capstones 2020 with a reminder of whats truly important and wondrous in the world. Named for his preschooler, the solo bow strips back the local psych revivalists sound, still swaddled in vocal reverb but patient and swaying with soft strings. "Slip Into" evokes the 13th Floor Elevators both titularly and with a fever dream of influences fading in on a sound of folkies Bill Fay...