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"...defining spectacle of Austin’s hippie community for decades, before hippies disappeared from the city in the late Eighties...."

May 2, 2025 News Feature

Album Review: Gen Z Cowboy Yahtzee Brown Sings His Heartbreak With a Twang

Debut LP You Got This offers a contemporary take on coming-of-age

"...both with the girl and with “All my favorite hippies and longhairs/ Hanging out under the bleachers.” By the..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Music Feature by Miranda Garza

Indie Rockers Souls Extolled Have a Whole Lotta Love

Singer-guitarist Zach Black talks new LP soulsex and finding the light in moments of darkness

"...a record that you might [think] a bunch of hippies wrote ... There’s definitely plenty of frustration.”..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Music Feature by Miranda Garza

The Saw Is Family! City Celebrates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s 50th Anniversary

Proclamation ceremony brings together cast, council, and fans

"...The event celebrated a film that redefined horror and..."

Oct. 13, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No Love for Bubba

Oct. 9, 2024 Postmarks

City of Austin to Proclaim The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day

Celebrating the horror movie that built the Texas film industry

"...read our retrospective from the 40th anniversary, "Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext," Oct. 3, 2014.)..."

Oct. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Horror Unearthed: The Return of Confessions of a Serial Killer

The lost Austin horror classic finally gets the respect it deserves

"...For anyone who thinks that there was nothing made..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How MoMA Made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Respectable

The pivotal role of New York in the story of the Austin classic

"...Tobe Hooper’s seminal horror film The Texas Chain Saw..."

Aug. 14, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Elders: Margaret and Pat Roach Reflect on Their 64-Year Marriage

It all started at UT-Austin

"...to the music.” They said they saw everyone from hippies to cowboys talking with each other...."

Aug. 2, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Gary Floyd, Scene-Defining Singer of Austin Punks the Dicks, Has Died

WATCH: An exclusive look at Arts+Labor’s in-progress Dicks doc

"...than a screamer, the vocalist showed off his singing chops in alternative blues ensemble Sister Double Happiness, which toured..."

May 3, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

The Luv Doc: Dirty Piggies Everywhere

Eeyore’s is pretty much a foot fetishist’s dream come true, as long as hygiene isn’t an issue

"...deny yourself the delightful panorama of grumpy old tie-dyed hippies giving modern technology the stink eye. It’s almost as..."

May 3, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man

"...Founded in 2001 by the Austin Film Society with..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Off Beat: Armadillo World Headquarters Plots Austin FC Partnership

The Dillo lives!

"...“The cowboys started growing their hair out, and the hippies started wearing hats.” (Find a Q&A with Music Industry..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...scene will gut you.  – Kimberley Jones Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Kat McNevins

Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette, BigXthaPlug, and More Highlights From Saturday at ACL Fest

From Rina Sawayama's avant-pop to Die Spitz's morning mosh

"...a mishmash crowd of families, teenage techno-goths, and elder hippies at the barricade. Alongside mosh-inducing fare like “Hair of..."

Oct. 8, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Being Dead

Debut LP uses fairy tales as a heartfelt, irreverent rock escape

"...a way of life – still practiced by small-town hippies, while "Daydream" envisions Keller as a daisy in the..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Tribute Convenes Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, Norah Jones, and More at the Hollywood Bowl

Two-night song extravaganza pulled stars from across generations

"...may be as a convener. From bringing together Austin’s hippies and cowboys in the Seventies to his endless commitment..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

What Texas Artists Had to Say on the CMT Music Awards Red Carpet

Jackie Venson, Midland, and more talk country music’s Austin migration

"...About a centennial after it was called country & western, and post-2010s bro country, the industry arrived in..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Jesus Revolution

Tedious retelling of the era of the Jesus freaks preaches to the choir

"...idealism of the youth movement, grumbling about how the hippies protesting the Vietnam War on the evening newscast need..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nagavalli's East-and-West Fusing LP Reaches Beyond

The divine feminine of Numinosum

"...jet-setters and Travis Heights denizens alike. Indian twang for hippies and East Cesar Chavez dwellers, diva soul for soccer..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Raul's in Overdrive: "Have a Good Time, Get in Free, and Drink Some Beer"

Enter 1978, when Austin punk meets San Antonio’s the Next and Dallas’ the Nervebreakers

"...assistant, which developed his yen to join the rock & roll world...."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

All the Dirty Little Secrets: Halina Reijn Digs Up Bodies Bodies Bodies

The director of the Gen Z Clue on why she won't direct on stage

"...would have been my chances? My parents were radical hippies and they thought it was cool to be very..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fifth Annual KOKEFEST Brings Clint Black and More to Hutto

Two-day lineup includes Turnpike Troubadours, Robert Earl Keen, Aaron Watson, and more

"...music's founding mythos of the convergence of rednecks and hippies, KOKE-FM served as essential a role as the Armadillo..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Faster Than Sound: BabiBoi's Spitfire Soundtrack for the Club and Beyond

Ballroom rapper joins the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce's Pride in Local Music next Saturday, and more music news

"...in hardcore music. The show at Austin's Prizer Arts & Letters gallery will be open Saturdays and Sundays from..."

June 17, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...the little artistic statement I wrote. It sort of hippies me up a little bit, right? What good punk..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

I'll Fly Away: “Sister” Bobbie Nelson Passes on at Age 91

Soul of Willie Nelson & Family called the piano her "truest friend"

"...I saw how Austin was a haven for the hippies, and how the hippies were open-minded 'bout all sorts..."

March 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...that it was filmed, and those characters were contemporary hippies trying to get away from the violence of the..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Diggin' Way Down Into Life With Carolyn Wonderland & A. Whitney Brown

For Valentine's Day, we bring you a snapshot of life at home with a blues musician and her comedy writer husband

"...however, he hitchhiked to Canada, fell in with the hippies, spent three weeks at Woodstock, and experienced a paradigm..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Free Brews and Boosters from Jester King; Fat City x Meanwhile = Beer Cheese; William Chris and the Black-Eyed Pea Cook-Off; THC Donuts Postponed; and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...date back to January 29. So, as all those hippies who read Robert Heinlein’s Stranger In a Strange Land..."

Dec. 29, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What We're Listening to Right Now

Ayo Tamz, Blushing, Whookilledkenny, Chief Cleopatra, and more have us dialed in

"...vocal delivery and sacred medicinal journey inspiration. Did the hippies of yore have such fun, rap-informed soundtracks? Tamz sells..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by E. Ryan Ellis

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