What We Learned at the King of the Hill ATX TV Festival Panel

First look at season 14 gives hints at revival

"...actors Pamela Adlon (the voice of Bobby Hill), Lauren Tom (Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone), and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone..."

May 31, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gus Baldwin, the Sketch, and a New Era of Old School

Genre-agnostic quartet debuts with classic rock energy and brassy punk politics

"...Like their rock forefathers – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Music Feature by Kyra Bruce

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...the total experience of small town Americana, like the Tom Petty of Marble Falls’ Traveling Wilburys of Brewpubs. And..."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

ELO Signs Off, Over and Out

English hits jukebox, 54, retires at the Moody Center

"...the main attraction, who much like his fellow Wilbury Tom Petty’s final road expedition, barely moved onstage and maybe..."

Oct. 16, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Theatre Review: Is Paradise Lost in Arcadia?

Watching the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold at Austin Playhouse

"...It’s a key theme in Tom Stoppard’s tumultuous Arcadia. It’s also what the play could..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

My Old Ass

39-year-old Aubrey Plaza doles out advice to her younger self

Sept. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Theatre Review: Georgetown Palace Theatre’s Cats

Cozy musical comfort in a purrfect classic

"...and intriguing. Who puts on Cats after the disastrous Tom Hooper movie dragged the good name of the Jellicle..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Provocative Pop, Emo Legends, and More Crucial Concerts

Know your shows

"...the world that comes across like Todd Snider and Tom Petty thrown into a psychedelic Beatles blender.   –..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

El Tule’s Final Show and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Catch Lucinda Williams, Escuela Grind, or Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold

"...Rosie Flores, Alejandro Escovedo, Beto y Los Fairlanes, and Tomás Ramirez flourished, but with Grupo Fantasma's millennial rise, a..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

The Austin Chronic – Which Is Better: Marijuana or Fentanyl?

According to the government, cannabis is scarier than the drug killing over 150 people a day

"...Prevention and Awareness Day. Did it kill Prince and Tom Petty?..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Column by Kevin Curtin

Review: Evan Charles, Between Two Worlds

Altamesa bandleader searches inward on sharply written solo debut

"...Evan Charles works in grand archetypes and dichotomies, even as his songwriting grounds in a visceral restlessness..."

Aug. 3, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freemam

Only Austin Earned a Warmhearted Lucinda Williams In-Store at Waterloo Records

Celebrating her new memoir and LP, as well as shop owner John Kunz

"...a Rock N Roll Heart, with noted ties to Tom Petty like set opener “Stolen Moments.” Further clarification, Williams..."

July 6, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Temple of Angels' Joyful Dream-Pop Return and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Sabrina Ellis, DAIISTAR, Wilson Marks, and more

"...of the American Southwest into an intoxicating combination of Tom Petty and Calexico. Those elements still reign on the..."

May 19, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 28 - May 4

"...as you wander out in the places that singer Tom Petty referred to as "The Great Wide Open."..."

April 28, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Watch This: Kicking Americana Quintet Restos’ Debut Single “Ain’t Dead Yet”

Former Western Youth members aren’t hanging it up anytime soon

"...together, with an easy but kicking melody worthy of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Weber and Harris’ harmonizing vocals..."

April 5, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Review: Austin Shakespeare's Sense and Sensibility

Putting the pedal to the metal bolsters Jane Austen's classic work

"...Just for the hell of it, playwright Tom Stoppard wrote 15-Minute Hamlet, an abridged version of Shakespeare's..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Seven Lone Star-Launched Recommendations at Weekend Two of ACL Fest 2022

Seven Texas recommendations at ACL Fest Weekend Two

"...– love unspools with doe-eyed charm in opener "Almost Automatic." With salt-of-the-earth sensibility and Tom Petty American simplicity, Bummer..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Willie’s Picnic Brings the Fireworks, and Beto O’Rourke, to Q2

Old Austin meets new Austin with Fourth of July Concert

"...Old)” to Jerry Reed’s “East Bound and Down” and Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” With Jonathan Terrell whipping..."

July 5, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

With Sharply Different Approaches, Willie Nelson and George Strait Christen the Moody Center

Strait leads crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to his fellow Texas icon

"...the end of the night, with a cover of Tom Petty’s “You Wreck Me” providing for violin and acoustic..."

April 30, 2022 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

John Mayer Sets the Moody Center Mood

Sob rocker marks first show at not-quite-ready stadium

"...Last night, alongside the crowd chorus on Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” an impressive number sang along to..."

April 21, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...would be the sensation they are without the brunette/blonde dichotomy at its center), but the band’s coy, smirky insularity..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Review: The Band of Heathens

Remote Transmissions, Vol. 1

"...most hit deliciously unexpected (Robert Ellis' mellow drawl of Tom Petty's "Walls"; Hayes Carll's woozy Dylan with "The Man..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

What We're Listening to Right Now

Nakia, Sun June, Norman BA$E, Good Looks, 8½ Souvenirs, and more local sounds worth seeking out

"...it hard?" There's also new "Easy" and acoustic track "Tom Petty." – Rachel Rascoe Alex Coke & Carl Michel manifest..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Most Memorable Moments of Friday’s ACL Fest

Megan, Miley, Maidza, and one really long line

"...“Does it feel like the party’s getting started?” Tkay..."

Oct. 2, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."Perennial Bloom (Back to You)" and "Wildest Dream" evoke Tom Petty but sound natural, not mimicking, in his hands...."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

If or When I Call: Will Johnson Discusses His Debut Novel

Long-held itch harvests the road, autobiography, and compassion

"...AC: In an early chapter, a song from Tom Petty’s Wildflowers comes on a grocery store radio, prompting..."

April 9, 2021 Music Post by Matt White

SXSW Online Offered Lots to Look Forward To

Virtual festival forecasts incoming local debuts and tentative fall touring.

"...and 16mm footage from the making of Wildflowers in Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free...."

March 26, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Tom Petty, Folk Horror Lead SXSW Audience Awards

The Fallout is this year's big winner

"...HEADLINERS: Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, D: Mary Wharton (read..."

March 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interview: David Fricke Follows Tom Petty to Somewhere You Feel Free

Rolling Stone writer on why Wildflowers changed everything

"...of Fame rock career with his band the Heartbreakers, Tom Petty needed to make a change. Frustrated by his..."

March 17, 2021 Screens Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Interview: Mary Wharton Pieces Together Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free

Finding the man behind the Wildflowers sessions

"...anyone had seen of the recording studio footage of Tom Petty recording his 1994 game changing solo album, Wildflowers...."

March 17, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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