13th Floor Elevators

MOJO Presents Paint It Black features 15 handpicked vintage cuts that peer into the darkness, including tracks by The Yarbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, The Pretty Things, The 13th Floor Elevators and many more.

The ultimate compendium of a half century of the best music, now revised and updated. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through today. Carefully selected by a team of international critics and some of the best-known music reviewers and commentators, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence.

"Childhood's End" sees Ulver re-interpret classic Psychedelic tracks from the late 1960s. The album includes Ulver's unique versions of tracks from The 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, Jefferson Airplane, The Pretty Things and more. The Sunshine era gets the "dark music" treatment!

Specially-made CD that was apparently given away with each copy of the January, 2009 issue of Mojo Magazine. A good number of mind-expanding tracks to be thoroughly enjoyed on this disc. Tunes by the likes of The Move, Yardbirds, The Creation, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, a name that you may not hear very often - Aphrodite's Child, the Blossom Toes, ace producer David Axelrod, The Attack (one of the late John DuCann's pure works of genius) among several others…

If one had to point to a single initial salvo that launched the garage rock revival movement in the 1970s and ‘80s, it would have to be the release of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 in 1972. Elektra Records had approached rock critic Lenny Kaye (not yet the guitarist with the Patti Smith Group) with the notion of compiling an album of great, overlooked rock tunes, but what Kaye came up with was something significantly different – an overview of the great, wild era when American bands, goaded by the British Invasion, began honing in on a tougher and more eclectic rock & roll sound, and kids were reawakened to the possibilities of two guitars, bass, and drum…