Five Films to Change Your Future at Other Worlds 2019

Time travel, undead duplicates, and sea monsters a-hoy!

"...Dead Dicks: Reincarnation can be a pain if you're trying to..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds SF Festival Is in The Honeymoon Phase

Project Greenlight title will be closing night film

"...dour, and today's list injects some serious comedy. Dead Dicks is the sticky reincarnation comedy you never knew you..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pocket Fishrmen Serve up Punk and ... Fish

What to expect at the punk cutups’ annual Fish Fry

"...This was Austin past the initial Big Boys/Dicks punk rush – on several tabs' worth of Butthole..."

June 1, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Austin Angles for BMI

Music leaders court performance rights organization, plus a requiem for Draylen Mason

"...Uncle Pie Hole, cooked up by Dicks bassist Buxf Parrott and Shoulders guitarist Todd Kassens, plays..."

March 30, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...reared singer Gary Floyd relocated first-wave Austin punks the Dicks to mid-Eighties San Francisco, where he later spun off..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield

“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."

"...choruses Gary Floyd, mouthpiece for trailblazing Austin punks the Dicks and one of those "people of a certain age,"..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: David Yow Meets the Jazzus Lizard

David Yow fronts the Jazzus Lizard, Cherubs knock off 22 years of rust, Preston Hubbard dies, and Blind Lemon Jefferson gets kicked off Texas license plates

"...In 2013, he heroically channeled Gary Floyd at a Dicks benefit. Two years later, he was enlisted to sing..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...pensive cover of "Shit on Me" highlighted last year's Dicks tribute, The Dicks From Texas. – Greg Beets..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

The Luv Doc: The Dating Scene

People are just no damn good

"...preexisting prejudice by saying that yes, universally, men are dicks. Maybe that has something to do with them actually..."

March 18, 2016 Column

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...a punk venue and name-drops Black Flag and the Dicks...."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...pops up as alumnus in local institutions macro (the Dicks) and micro (the Next, the Gay Sportscasters, and the..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Texas Punk Problem

"...The Dicks at the Ritz, 1982. “The venue’s recycling system was..."

July 10, 2014 Photo Gallery

Twinkies, Twerking, & Paraplegic Crowd Surfing

Fun Fun Fun Fest 8 – wrapped

"...are outside. They can eat a hot bowl of dicks."..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Another Round

A poetic third act for carnival riot Shoulders

"...Buxf Parrot, who also inducted the guitarist into the Dicks...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gay Place

Time to dig in the crypt of queer music history

"...You wanna feel your punk rock heritage? Austin's legendary Dicks is about as ancestral as it comes, and lead..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Two Actresses, Fat and Thin

Staging Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' is a heavy proposition

"...characters are usually some combination of, ah, bitches and dicks...."

Oct. 2, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback

R&B, race relations, and rap: Black Joe Lewis and the League of Extraordinary G'z, plus Ginny's Little Longhorn

"...by Swine King singer Dottie Farrell and featuring original Dicks rhythm section Buxf Parrot and Pat Deason, plus guitar..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Chaos in Tejas

Chaos in Tejas courts hip-hop, and other tales from the underground punk / metal fest

"...had its greats long before. Were you into the Dicks or the Big Boys growing up?..."

May 31, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Cargo Cult/Texas Biscuit Bombs

"...with the best of Austin's inglorious post-punk past: the Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Hickoids, and Brown Whornet, etc. Cargo Cult..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Cop Out

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Kevin Smith's painfully unfunny throwback to the Eighties buddy-cop movies.

"...had the far superior working title A Couple of Dicks) pairs Willis and Morgan as unlikely (yet satirically clichéd)..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

In the afterglow of Austin Pride, Stephen implores us to 'keep our dicks in our pants'

"...I totally believe that we need to keep our dicks in our pants and keep our tits in our..."

June 12, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Farewell to the Madness

Remembering Doug, the Dicks, Devo, and more

"...youngest band to perform at the Music Awards, the Dicks, Roky Erickson, and the Doug Sahm tribute garnered the..."

March 23, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Matt Stokes: These Are the Days

The fine-art world of Austin investigates the city's sweet punk rock traditions

"...Temporary Services. These artists made tribute zines about the Dicks' lyrics, and Tim Kerr photocopied and handed out old..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

TCB

Stories from the Ritz's punk heyday and a former Adult now on tour with Kelly Clarkson, and the 2007 ACL Fest sounds just like Tom Thumb's blues

"...local bands Scratch Acid, MDC, the Offenders, and the Dicks; and even early gigs by the Red Hot Chili..."

May 11, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

American Hardcore

Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.

"...Really Red, Culturcide, Millions of Dead Cops, and the Dicks; east to D.C.'s legendary 9:30 clubbers Bad Brains, Minor..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Greatest Gift

An oral history unearthing one of post-punk's most seminal acts: Austin's Scratch Acid

"...listen to but really, really cool to watch: The Dicks, the Big Boys, the Butthole Surfers. There were a..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Rubble, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Gary Floyd's Buddha brothers

Live shot

"...punk past, Gary Floyd, who reunited Armadillo busters the Dicks the night before, sang his heart out with his..."

June 17, 2005 Music Review by Martin de Leon II

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...tune in its repertoire. The Big Boys, Butthole Surfers, Dicks, and Scratch Acid kept the punk spirit alive and..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...10 Garage Rockers From the Eighties1. "Dicks Hate the Police," the Dicks..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Page Two

Austin music clubs are usually one of the first casualties in an economic downturn.

"...including, but not limited to, the Big Boys, the Dicks, the Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Poison 13, etc. This..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Louis Black

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