The Grateful Dead

Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif., June 27 & 28

"...Enough tie-dye to coat the Earth; hordes of young, long-haired girls in flowing flowered..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Watch This: Remembering Doug Sahm and the Grateful Dead’s Impromptu 1972 Thanksgiving Day Jam

New pocket-doc revisits Armadillo lore 50 years later

"...That is, Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead bandmate Phil Lesh shared a stage with Austin’s..."

Nov. 24, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Graceful Dead

Almost 50 years of Jerry Garcia worship comes full circle

"...When word of the Grateful Dead began oozing out of San Francisco in..."

June 30, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Ween: The New Grateful Dead?

Ween sells out at Stubb's.

"...Overheard at the Ween show last night: Dude #1: I was getting..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Fear the Walking Dead Production Quits Austin for Georgia

AMC show relocates amid fear about Texas incentives

"...Bleak news for the Texas film and TV community: Zombie smash hit Fear..."

Nov. 11, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide: Grateful Dead

American Beauty 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino)

"...ahead, trouble behind, Jerry Garcia and cohorts recorded Workingman's Dead in early 1970, sounding like psychedelic folkies barring the..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Music Never Stopped

After 20 years and a loss of memory, a father and son learn to reconnect over the music of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan.

"...Mia Maestro, Tammy Blanchard and Scott Adsit. Based on the essay “The Last Hippie” by Dr. Oliver Sacks (whose..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dead & Company Hold Their Own

Grateful Dead assemblage puts in four hours on Red River

"...Saturday night at the Erwin Center, Austin experienced its closest encounter to the..."

Dec. 4, 2017 Music Post by Randy Reynolds

Grateful Dawg

"...Directed by: Gillian Grisman. Captain Trips Unplugged. Using the parlance of the day, the “unplugged” terminology might be..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grateful for Alamo and Craft Beer

Dead Heads & Dogfish Head brewed an exclusive craft beer with granola

"...Ask the most loyal fanbase in music history to suggest a..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Food Post by Jessi Cape

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...The first music piece I ever wrote was on the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

Christening the Waterloo Music Festival

Welcome to the jamily

"...Waterloo Music Festival co-founder Stephen Sternschein’s induction into Deadhead-dom occurred as a youngster at sleepaway camp. He found..."

Sept. 10, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory

The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"

"...Hopin' for the best..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Around the Fire

"...he's barely out of high school. That's how Around the Fire opens, and it takes the rest of the..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Return of Lila Downs

‘La Reyna’ makes another rare stop in Austin – tonight

"...Lila Downs performs with all the force of a tropical depression. On 2012’s Pecados y..."

April 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Kickin’ the Mud Off My Sneakers

A pretty good weekend in Geezerville

"...I’m not like most of the folks who attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Levitation Live Shot: Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

British Blood Lust beasts hammer a childlike sweet spot

"...At 12:03am on Saturday, when Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats ceased, the UK doom melodians slammed the coffin..."

April 30, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Good Run or Last Panic (at the Backyard)

Geezerville tries to keep up with Nick and Todd and friends

"...It’s easy to see why Austin is the "Live Music Capital of the World” during the bacchanalia..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Persecution of the Juggalos in United States of Insanity

Tom Putnam talks Insane Clown Posse's First Amendment fight

"...What's the difference between Deadheads and Juggalos? The FBI doesn't classify..."

Oct. 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

"...There have been bands skirting around the edges of city..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

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

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"...White begins his new biography of Jimmy Buffett with the transcript of a 2012 hearing before the Nevada Gaming..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...son of Richard Starkey, Jr. – has now powered the Who even longer than Keith Moon, his godfather. (That’s..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...his living room. Unpacked boxes surround him, only heightening the sense of physical disconnect permeating the rustic, South Austin..."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

The first of Austin's premier photographers shares some music history through his photos.

"...At the age of 82, you'd think people would give him..."

May 18, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

How the Wolves Survived

That band from East L.A. keeps getting better

"...Few bands of Mexican-American descent have had the impact on American rock & roll as Los Lobos...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Ego Has Landed

Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.

"...one word. Beer in hand, he looked squarely into the camera and smirked, "Me." While this brand of staggering..."

April 28, 2000 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...by Turk Pipkin, Mike Caveney, and Martin Lewis for the 20-year reunion of the Left-Handed League at Palmer Auditorium...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

The Information Dirt Road

Marketing Your Band on the Net

"...Rock & roll and computers - they would seem to go together as well the Grateful..."

July 14, 1995 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Spirit of Improvisation

"...photograph by John Carrico Ambient energy still pulsed in the smoke-filled air as scores of dazed fans shuffled through..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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