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The 13th Floor Elevators

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Forfans of 1960s psychedelic and garage rock, roky erickson listeners, and music history explorers.
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American psychedelic rock band formed in Austin, Texas, in 1965. Fronted by Roky Erickson with Tommy Hall’s electric jug and Stacy Sutherland’s guitar, they pioneered a raw, hallucinatory garage-psych sound. Their key releases include The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966), Easter Everywhere (1967), and Bull of the Woods (1969).

Known for pioneering psychedelic rock, the use of the electric jug, the cult single "You're Gonna Miss Me," and influential albums recorded in the late 1960s in Austin, Texas.

DeBaser’s reviews frame The 13th Floor Elevators as early psychedelic pioneers from Austin with a raw, hallucinatory sound powered by Tommy Hall’s electric jug and Roky Erickson’s voice. The Psychedelic Sounds... gets cult status, Easter Everywhere is praised for cohesion yet dinged for production, and Bull of the Woods is defended as underrated. The band’s brief, intense run left a lasting influence on American counterculture and garage-psych.

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