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"...letter the Chronicle published two issues back, "Why Isn't Bubble Puppy in the Music Hall of Fame" [Postmarks, Jan...."

Jan. 28, 2009 Postmarks

Why Isn't Bubble Puppy in the Music Hall of Fame

"...promote a so-called Texas Music Hall of Fame without Bubble Puppy in it [Music Poll 2008-2009]. Not only are..."

Jan. 13, 2009 Postmarks

Hot Smoke & Sasafrass

'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass' (and its backstory) returns via the reissue of A Gathering of Promises

"...easy to imagine the street 37 years ago when Bubble Puppy shared a house here, rehearsing into the night,..."

May 7, 2004 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Puro Mojo

Friday the 13th: Bubble Puppy electrify, the Krayolas Mexify

"...of sassafras, many things will come to pass,” intoned Bubble Puppy’s 1969 hit, “Hot Smoke and Sassafras.” An unlikely..."

July 9, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Dark Shadows

Billy Miller on the return of Cold Sun at Austin Psych Fest

"...an anomaly in Texas psych history. As significant as Bubble Puppy or Moving Sidewalks but in no way similar,..."

April 29, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Let's Build a City

All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards

"...Forty years earlier, Bubble Puppy also shot the moon...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Todd Potter

Plays the guitar like ringing 'The Bell'

"...upon a time, Potter was the whiz-kid guitarist for Bubble Puppy, the Austin-based psychedelic hard rock quartet that gave..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Playback: Golden Years Wagoneers

Wagoneers ready a resurgence

"...Roy Cox, bassist for the Central Texas psychedelic legends Bubble Puppy, died on April 2 at the age of..."

April 12, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Hatchett Man

Local bookers like Charlie Hatchett Jr. built this city

"...booked acts including the 13th Floor Elevators, Christopher Cross, Bubble Puppy, Eric Johnson, and ZZ Top, plus Texas powerhouse..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Down the Line

The 2010-11 Austin Music Awards crown South by Southwest's Saturday night

"...the Year just ahead of native 1960s psych sons Bubble Puppy holding high their Hall of Fame win, both..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Alejandro Escovedo scores his own life and Man From Plains, Backspin Records relocates, and UT's Center for American History archives Tary Owens' legacy

"...initial publication of the 2008 Austin Music Poll ballot, Bubble Puppy guitarist Todd Potter contacted the Chronicle music staff..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Importance of Being Earnest

For better or worse, Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities liberates the play from its drawing-room trappings.

"...and, when reduced to a great, desperate puddle of puppy love, he matches Everett's more tested comic capabilities barb..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

All ATX Benefit for HAAM

"...Bubble Puppy’s Jimi Umstattd (l) and David Fore..."

Aug. 27, 2015 Photo Gallery

My Children Are Becoming Heavy

When San Antonio rock ruled South Texas

"...A few boasted dual citizenship: Bubble Puppy, claimed by San Antonio and Austin (and Houston..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass': Bubble Puppy reunites, James McMurtry fires back, and a final verdict for the estate of Don Walser

"...A pivotal touchstone of Texas psych, Bubble Puppy is confirmed to appear at the 2010-11 Austin..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

It's the 'Texas' Music Hall of Fame

"...Dear Editor, Regarding Todd Potter's letter about his band Bubble Puppy not being in the Texas Music Hall of..."

Jan. 19, 2009 Postmarks

Todd Potter Reviewed

"...be a surprise. He's hardly been fallow since departing Bubble Puppy in the early Seventies, not with notable stints..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW 2019 Reveals Initial Artist List

Amanda Palmer, Oh Sees, Laura Jane Grace, Swervedriver and 236 more

"...SXSWers coming out of Austin are Arkansas Dave, Blushing, Bubble Puppy, Charlie Belle, Charlie Faye & the Fayettes, Cilantro..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...deck. Hard funk meets lowrider soul. – Thomas Fawcett Bubble Puppy..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

SXSW List No. 4

Dan Auerbach’s father and 118 other acts

"...From Austin mainstays – psych pioneers Bubble Puppy, Brit-pop doppelgängers Cotton Mather, and platinum hitmakers Fastball..."

Jan. 18, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Boys From Houston

Before ZZ Top, their precursors the Moving Sidewalks defined the Houston scene

"...scene included the 13th Floor Elevators from Austin and Bubble Puppy and the Children from San Antonio, all in..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

South by Southwest turns 25, the Austin Music Awards score a Bubble Puppy coup, and Ted Nugent leaves his hat on

"...Disco Doom, Wye Oak, YOB, Bubble Puppy, Mexicans With Guns, the Jezabels, Unnatural Helpers, Fernando..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

The 14th Floor

Austin's (and Corpus Christi's) other psych-era survivors

"...to be true, literally, as with Todd Potter of Bubble Puppy, as well as, figuratively, the case of Roky..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Best of International Artists

In Box

"...said, this is perhaps the worst-sounding album ever released. Bubble Puppy's A Gathering of Promises (1969) is kitchen-sink psychedelia..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by John Morthland

SPAMARAMA: The Movie

This Austin-made companion piece to the event blends truth and fiction in a quasi-documentary that purports to explain how SPAMARAMA all began.

"...natural audience (heads up, owners of hand-carved bongs and Bubble Puppy albums) and deserves a chance to find it...."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

George Kinney, Who Helmed the Golden Dawn’s Early Psych Rock Treasure Power Plant, Has Died

Homegrown psychedelic trailblazer passes at 75

"...for the then-burgeoning local psych scene (Lost & Found, Bubble Puppy, Red Krayola). Unfortunately, it didn't turn out as..."

July 18, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...(1pm), Jazz Daddies (3), Big Cedar Fever (5), and Bubble Puppy (7) on Saturday, and Sofia Mock (1), Croy..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators

Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles

"...Floor Elevators that other local bands including the Conqueroo, Bubble Puppy, and the Golden Dawn responded to. His band,..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: The Austin Music Industry Awards Come of Age

Kevin Curtin reverses his “awards are bullshit” stance

"...tribute to homegrown psych forefathers Golden Dawn, the Chessmen, Bubble Puppy, and namesake heroes the 13th Floor Elevators to..."

March 2, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Bubble Puppy

"...eluded it in 1971. Whichever regulatory body certifies badassery, Bubble Puppy got this one right...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Music Review by Greg Beets

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