Read an Excerpt From the 13th Floor Elevators’ Heady New Coffee Table Book

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Pitchfork Book Club highlights today’s best new music books. The story of the 13th Floor Elevators is often told in sudden bursts and strange visions—part earthly chaos, part hallucination.

The pioneering psychedelic rock group lasted just four years in the late 1960s before retreating back into the haze. There is little video footage and few interviews from that time period, and it was only later that the extent of the Austin band’s influence became clear; their brief history was practically destined for underground music mythology.

Fittingly, a new coffee table book compiled by writer and Elevators historian Paul Drummond captures the band’s essence in telling fragments, through collected photos and memorabilia, mini oral histories with

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