Roky Erickson back again

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Roky Erickson’s last LA landing shook all the sense out of my head: rock’s greatest lost voice riding out renewed reverberations like he never had to be found in the first place. There he was with his classics, pinned to the stage in a Hawaiian shirt and khakis, singing [...]

Artist Rory Hayes—whose skritch-skratch primitivism was almost too outre even for the underground comix of the ’60s—is finally comped and catalogued in the about-to-be-released Where Demented Wented, which wraps up tons of repro art with rare interviews and which will be as fine an addition to your personal library of life resisters as it will [...]

Positive vibrations with the Black Angels

PHOTO by BRIANA PURSER
There is that lonesome, crazy, almost-poisonous sound that was there in American music almost as soon as they began recording it—what B.B. King said came from breaking the verbs in the blues, and what Wayne McGuire’s lonely essay found in “Sister Ray.” It was the drone, the [...]

I just checked this out. Half is elaborate Lincoln fetishism—giant paintings and really custom skateboards and lots of stuff—and the other half is cutesy tentacle monsters rubbin’ suckers, and the other half isn’t up yet. Anyway: Theo and Ellen should go to this. You should to, reading human. And you know what? I have a [...]

Beautiful post @ WFMU on Country Fuzztone: country songs with fuzz lead guitar. I have tried to track these down myself via guys like Ray Taylor and maybe Don Feger, and this post (aided by Deke Dickerson!) has lots of great stuff (Carl Butler, Johnny Darrell, later Wanda Jackson) and a few cool clunkers, and [...]

University by the Sea: Too much to do downtown: Roman history taught by Mayor Bob Foster, an Art Deco walking tour, movie screenings in the recently unearthed Jergins Tunnel. It’s all the knowledge you can handle for a couple bucks—some of it’s free, too. Noon-9pm. $20; $10 for students; Free for students 12 and younger.
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The first of two vital nights of Roky Erickson, hero human of lost modern America, who will be churning up anticipation for his historic performance tomorrow at the El Rey (tix here avail only at door oh no go!) when he hosts his favorite horror movie Creature With The Atom Brain at the newly reopened [...]

Kick off the unofficial Roky weekend the right way:

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I never used or even advocated oinkism (invite hassles, ratio hassles, lack of the specialized Roky Erickson torrents available at the Texas Psych unit) but sadness and frustration blogs deep today so as someone still uncomfortably constricted by human empathies I will present you several alternatives, none of which I [...]