Mikel Erickson, Roky's brother, confirmed the news in a public ... The statement also included a quote from ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons, writing from the band's European tour. Gibbons got to know ...

Roky Erickson, a Texas musical legend and psychedelic-rock pioneer best known as the frontman of 13th Floor Elevators, died in his hometown of Austin on Friday, as Austin360 first reported.

2021 marks two years since the world lost psychedelic-rock pioneer Roky Erickson, best known both ... The Circle Remain Unbroken album, I saw a quote that Neko Case had posted on YouTube, which ...

13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock icon whose career was cut short due to debilitating mental illness and years spent in a Texas mental hospital, has died of unknown ...

Roky Erickson, the psychedelic lodestar who helmed The 13th Floor Elevators and wrote one of garage rock's original anthems, "You're Gonna Miss Me," died on Friday at the age of 71. His death was ...

The singer, known as a pioneer in the psychedelic rock genre, helped found the 13th Floor Elevators when he was 18 Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock musician who started his career in the 1960s ...

Roky Erickson, lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the psychedelic rock band The 13th Floor Elevators, died Friday in Austin, Texas, at age 71. By Chris Eggertsen, Billboard Roky Erickson ...

To see a clip of Roky Erickson singing and playing guitar for his band of ’60s psychedelic pioneers, the 13th Floor Elevators, is to see the essence of rock ‘n’ roll youth. His adrenalized ...

Roky Erickson, a defining force in psychedelic rock in the 1960s and the stuff of rock lore ever since, died on Friday. He was 71. His brother Mikel posted news of his death on Facebook.

Roky Erickson—pioneering psychedelic musician and frontman of the 1960s rock group 13th Floor Elevators—has died. He was 71 years old. A cause of death has not yet been confirmed.

Roky Erickson, the former singer of Texas-based psychedelic rock band The 13th Floor Elevators, has died at the age of 71 on Friday, his brother Sumner told the Austin American-Statesman on Friday.

Roky Erickson, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Texan who headed the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, a pioneering psychedelic rock band in the 1960s that scored with "You're Gonna Miss Me," has died.