We Are All In Local Loses Members Over Dave TV Rift

WAAIL acts drop over copyright spat with local videographer

"...Converse’s band Gnarly Sacs. Groups including Moose’s Last Stand, Dead Sally, the Butts, Madeline, and First Year fight –..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Spectrum Theatre Company's Juneteenth Chronicles

With this play, Crystal Bird Caviel honors ancestors who were slaves and her colleague, the late Dr. Billy F. Harden

"...Caviel was grateful for the opportunity, but allows that "it was really..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Waterloo Music Fest Drops Full Lineup

Oteil Burbridge, Leftover Salmon weave into jam scene tapestry

"...Cheese Incident and the Texas debut of Joe Russo’s Grateful Dead tribute Almost Dead, which promotors tell “Playback” prompted..."

June 12, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Introducing Waterloo Music Festival

Jam scene convenes at Carson Creek Ranch in September

"...is the Lone Star debut of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, a Grateful Dead tribute anchored by the drummer for..."

May 8, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...time. It’s an impossible task, with all kinds of dead-ends, yes-ands, and no-buts. There is no perfection to be..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

Betty Harris Understands

Soul singer finally gets her due

"...those recordings, but not on “Breakin the Road.” He’s dead now, but James Black is the guy that laid..."

March 29, 2018 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Kaiser, Cogburn, Hoffnar & Håker Flaten Rock Free and Lovecraftian

A track premiere from the Mountains of Excess

"...on the albums by San Francisco bands like the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. “You’ve got..."

March 26, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Dead & Company Hold Their Own

Grateful Dead assemblage puts in four hours on Red River

"...Erwin Center, Austin experienced its closest encounter to the Grateful Dead since the band’s appearance at Manor Downs in..."

Dec. 4, 2017 Music Post by Randy Reynolds

Playback: Saturnalia Lands

Austin welcomes new DIY music fest while another gets blocked in court

"...Before Dead & Co. steal faces at the Erwin Center Saturday..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Half-Century Psych of Shiva's Headband

13th Floor Elevators weren't the only local psych act exploring Austin's outer limits – and still doing so

"...into the Austin history books as surely as the Grateful Dead did in San Francisco and the Velvet Underground..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Dan Ryan

"...Chicagoan Nathan Dixey's sophomore album squeezes the Grateful Dead's psych-folk over earnest Fleet Foxes fusion flavor. The..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

Saturday ACL Fest Picks

One Aussie and five Austinites we like on Saturday

"...stage) Kids sing the darnedest things ... like the Grateful Dead, Flaming Lips, and Muse...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature by Lauren Modery

Friday Locals

"...stage Kids sing the darnedest things … like the Grateful Dead and Muse...."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Row My Boat Ashore

Louis Black bids farewell in his final “Page Two” column

"...staff – their talent and commitment – and forever grateful to you, our readers."  – "Page Two," Sept. 8,..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Live Music This Weekend, Sept. 1-4

An extra day of delights for your weekend music-going

"...heavily on the Dan and ringer covers like the Grateful Dead’s “Shakedown Street.” – Greg Beets W.C. Clark Blues..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

What’cha Watchin’?

Advertising Director Cassidy Frazier lets The Son, Deadwood, and Peaky Blinders speak for themselves

"..."Your daddy doesn't define you." Deadwood (HBO)..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Column

What’cha Watchin’?

Listings Editor Mark Fagan on three standout rock docs

"...Long Strange Trip (Amazon) The Grateful Dead doc is indeed a long (239 minutes) and..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Screens Column

How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"...rise to a musical cult second only to the Grateful Dead's. Riding a style dubbed "Gulf & Western," the..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your game plan for the next three days

"...lyricist Bobby Sessions, who dropped his uplifting sophomore album Grateful in February. With an album arriving in July, lively..."

June 23, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow

Still Greezy after all these years

"...much as anyone, a cosmic cowboy version of the Grateful Dead with stomping Texas fiddle. Songs like "Country Music..."

June 23, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Gay Place

Dining Out for Life raises funds for HIV/AIDS related care

"...HIV/AIDS related care, prevention, education, testing, and counseling. "We're grateful for the support we see each year during Dining..."

April 21, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...editors depend on journalists like Caligiuri – clockwork about deadlines, fearlessly opinionated, physically rugged. “You’re the longest relationship I..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Greetings From Euphoria

Austin’s best spring festival – correction, “experience” – faces competition after idyllic sixth year

"...millennials, furry-booted ravers, crystal hippies, and baby boomers in Grateful Dead T-shirts that came to see Disco Biscuits, who..."

April 14, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Guy Clark Biographer Tamara Saviano

“He shared things with me he didn’t share with other people”

"...she had done, interviews with Guy’s mom who was dead, plus Guy’s teachers, I had no access to these..."

March 30, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...American Gods adaptation, and documentaries on subjects from the Grateful Dead to Black Lives Matter...."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Day of the Dead

(4AD)

"...its subject's 50th anniversary, May's 5-CD Day of the Dead yields 59 contemporary takes on classic Grateful Dead. Curated..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Too Late to Stop Now

Digital media in analog boxes – and sometimes in mono!

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature

Sound on Sound Review: Guided by Voices

Rock scholars avalanche the Dragon’s Lair

"...by Voices shows remain much like those by the Grateful Dead: No two are alike, and fans follow them..."

Nov. 5, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Locals Los Coast Break Out at ACL Fest

Singer Trey Privott on the band's origins and influences

"...like home base C-Boy's, the band grooves an extended, Grateful Dead-like pocket one moment, then parts to allow Privott..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Brett Dennen

Por Favor (Elektra)

"...the sincere "Where We Left Off," and echoing the Grateful Dead on "Burning Spirit." (12:15pm, Samsung stage)..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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