Gary Clark Jr. Spotlights Familial Austin Talent in Blues On the Green’s Return

“Everybody is listening to the guitar man”… and his friends

"...coordinated outfits, circles of friends with fashionable coolers, old hippies who dance with their hands, intact family units, and..."

July 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

AAAFF Review: Cane Fire

How Hollywood created, and swallowed, Hawaiian identity

"...to the ground. Cringeworthy commercials, and a combination of neo-hippies and spoiled technocrats, make it immediately obvious how Hawaii..."

June 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"...event was in the hands of a half-dozen latent hippies. His investment was on the line...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...tracks dripping with white funk, think MGMT for Southern hippies – the euphoria and segues."..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...blazing look in the rearview mirror. – Alejandra Ramirez Love & Lightstream Drive-In..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

In 1990, Austin Audiences Watched Slacker... and Saw Themselves

Richard Linklater’s indie milestone celebrates 30 years

"...no Sharks or Jets, no bikers and preppies, no hippies and townies. Blizzard said, "By its very lack of..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Magnolia Cafe West Closes for Good

Lake Austin Boulevard eatery is shuttered, shuttered, gone

"...time your reporter joined the scrappy crew of entrepreneurial neo-hippies and kitchen-savvy music-scene reprobates in 1991, the place went..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Vinyl Saved My Life Tonight: Record Stores Deliver in a Crisis

Local media emporiums maintain online shipping during C-19 lockdown

"...in Dallas in 1972 by “just a couple of hippies who loved books and recycling.” Said description fits a..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Glam Punks of 70s Austin Get Up to Their Gypsy Tricks

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part two: Glitter rock (1972-76) fades

"...Born in Los Angeles, 1953, he'd witnessed R&B become rock & roll at age 5 as genre..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy

“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”

"...letters – sometimes from prison inmates, sometimes from old hippies...."

Dec. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jay Trachtenberg's Top Books of 2019

From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books

"...books are Joe Nick Patoski's AUSTIN TO ATX: THE HIPPIES, PICKERS, SLACKERS, AND GEEKS WHO TRANSFORMED THE CAPITAL OF..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Deer

"...1967 rock musical Hair, a decidedly pacifist tale of hippies resisting the Vietnam War draft. The starry-eyed, six-minute journey,..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

People, Not the Place, Make This Festival a Utopia

UtopiaFest's triumvirate of land, music, and people takes shape

"...Toubab Krewe (Fri. 15, Cypress stage, 7:30pm) and splashy R&B rock quartet Nth Power (Fri. 15, Arrowhead stage, 8:30pm)...."

Nov. 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Vegan Magazine Founder Summer Burton Talks Reason and Queso

Former Buzzfeed exec and Texas native is obsessed with animals

"...known as it is now. I was home-schooled by hippies so I did have some familiarity with it," she..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...Texas to the Forty Acres and complete culture shock. Hippies populated the Drag; UT students organized regular Vietnam War..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...artist, who directed the gonzo kids'-book-meets-gross-out video for Barnes & Barnes' song "Fish Heads," and was in a New..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

It's a Small (Modern) World

"...least be aware of its effect on us older hippies who made Austin weird in the first place and..."

May 10, 2019 Postmarks

Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest

Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music

"...steers the 4x4 back toward the entrance, 100 retired hippies, blue-collar workers, freaks, pickers, and festi-kids have amassed around..."

April 12, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice Meet at New Story Festival

Three-day mash-up offers holistic approach to change

"...in the United Kingdom by what Clawson calls "Jesus hippies," and its U.S. offshoot, the near decade-old Wild Goose..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Robyn Ross

SXSW Music Featured Session: Laura Jane Grace, Our Lady of Punk, Devours SXSW

Against Me! founder on the “demonstrable power of punk”

"...Softer sounds, too, were a no-go. “The attitude of hippies and stuff like that when you’re getting beat up..."

March 15, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Film Review: The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

The Man in Black as a rainbow of emotions in this tender documentary

"...Black, who turned Dust Bowl folk into pop, made hippies love hillbilly gospel, and ended his career with one..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Looking Back at the Corporate Comedy Classic Office Space

Mike Judge's defining depiction of corporate America enters the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...tune in, turn on, and drop out. The Seventies: Hippies and punks formed an uneasy alliance about smashing the..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Helped Shape Austin Filmmaking

The saw remains the same for Mike Blizzard

"...It's been said that there would be no Austin..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet

Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more

"...the local garage act's content hiatus following 2010 debut Hippies. "But, I've always felt like we snuck into some..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Public Notice: Good Change Is Good

Greg Casar’s affordable housing resolution

"...event for his 10th book, Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers, and Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playback: And the Armadillos Went Wild

Threadgill’s World Headquarters goes the way of its predecessor, the Armadillo World Headquarters, plus Black Fret offers more than just money

"...the joint packed out with lunchers consuming chicken-fried pork chops and vegetable plates. The restaurant and music venue's owner,..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo Turns 50

The landmark album spins at the Moody Theater via two of its makers and their virtuosic friends

"...country and folk music. Then, ultimately, rockabilly and rock & roll, followed by jazz and ending with synthesizers and..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...Okay, these are too obvious, and you’ve probably already..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

ACL Late Night Shows

Local and national acts hit the clubs

"...Jungle & Rhye, Emo's..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Feature by Jeremy Steinberger

Threadgill’s WHQ Will Close After Thanksgiving

Eddie Wilson done “clinging to the curb”

"...be a museum for Austin’s magical musical confluence of hippies and cowboys beginning in the Sixties and Seventies. In..."

Sept. 12, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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