Subject: Tommy Hall

• R.I.P. Benny Thurman, Original Thirteenth Floor Elevators Bassist

  July 1, 2008

• Tonight: Tommy Hall Schedule at the Old Quarter in Galveston

  September 6, 2008

• SXSW: Austin Music Awards at Austin Music Hall

  Photos by Mark C. AustinAustin is full of ghosts, and not just at the Driskill Hotel. (Say hi to LBJ's mistress for us, though, those of you staying there.) Some of the ghosts aren't even dead. Take the Dicks (above), Austin's early-'80s hardcore trail-blazers who reconvened to play Wednesday night's Austin Music Awards and be inducted into the AMAs' Texas Music Hall of Fame - by X's Exene Cervenka, no less.Recognized today as one of the primary cornerstones of Texas punk, the Dicks' five-song s

  March 19, 2009

• Ex-13th Floor Elevator Tommy Hall Is Still Psychedelic

  A Long, Strange Trip

  March 5, 2009

• RIP, Syd. And RIP, 'Cid.

  A psychedelic pioneer and the drug that helped do him in are both sorely missed

  July 20, 2006

• Playbill

  September 30, 2004

• I Walked With a Zombie: A Roky Erickson Primer

  Chris GrayOkkervil River's Will Sheff (left) and Roky Erickson at the 2008 Austin Music AwardsRocks Off is starting to get really excited about Roky Erickson's show at the Continental Club Wednesday night. As of around noon Tuesday, about 50 tickets were left, available at Sig's Lagoon. Sig's owner Tomas Escalante said a "handful" would be available at the door as well. Unlike most Houstonians - according to Andrew Dansby's fine article in the Chronicle this past Sunday, Erickson last played Hou

  June 23, 2009

• Houston 101: An Elevator's Last Ride In The Montrose

  Photo by Emerald Wood ArchivesSome bands are just fated to live fast, die hard and live a pretty corpse. Maybe no Texas group ever exemplified that credo better than the 13th Floor Elevators, perhaps the first and certainly one of the most dramatic exemplars of a band that flew too close to the sun. While rock historians know that story pretty well, only the most devoted know that one of the original members was murdered in a domestic dispute in Montrose. Band lyricist and electric jug pl

  July 16, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "New Texas"

  In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New Texas Capital: Austin Patron Saint: Willie Nelson ​Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham, True Believers, Freddy Fender, Nanci Griffith, Marcia Ball, Big Boys/Randall "Biscuit" Turner, Fas

  August 13, 2009

• Five Direct Beatles Connections to Texas

  Four postcards included in the limited edition of The Beatles: Rock Band​ Looks like Beatlemania 2.0 is in full swing. Rocks Off may have mentioned how excited we are to play The Beatles: Rock Band at Coffee Groundz tonight, with prizes, drink specials and much laughter as we try to gnash our way through "I Saw Her Standing There." Shortly after noon, we called over to Cactus Music to see how the freshly released remastered Beatles catalog was selling. The complete box set sold out in pre-sale

  September 9, 2009