Are You Experienced?

Why art that actively engages audiences is quintessentially Austin

"...launched Esther's created quite the art experience with the counterculture musical Now the Revolution at the University of Texas..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...Whereas Ken Kesey's LSD escapades helped trigger a counterculture awakening on a magic bus trip across the country,..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Road to Woodstock

Muckraking at Woodstock!

"...explain his position in what was known as the counterculture, growing up in New York, running a head shop..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...garnering some recognition beyond our city limits (e.g., the counterculture musical/happening Stomp, aka Now the Revolution, which caught the..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Temple Stone

Japanese psych warlords Ghost won't be as illusive as their name suggests after Saturday's show at Mohawk

"...wake of the Vietnam War and mirroring the West's counterculture revolution, a wave of Japanese nonconformists began experimenting with..."

May 15, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...11pm, Smokin' Music No group better represented the enlightened counterculture of postwar Japan than the Flower Travellin' Band. The..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

Friday

"...of Islam by Mark Levine. The book explores underground counterculture from Morocco to Egypt, including punk, hip-hop, and metal...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings-on

"...unknown, barebacked on motorcycles, poster children for Japan's postwar counterculture. They never looked back. "They took us [as] a..."

March 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Objects to the Word 'Awesome'

"...is awesome! Can one word define a culture, a counterculture? Awesome has lost any of the exultant meaning proportionate..."

March 10, 2009 Postmarks

Book Review: Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley

Living in the Georgia woods in a tree house with Blaze Foley before he was Blaze Foley

"...a tree house in the Georgia woods during the counterculture of the mid-1970s. At the time, he was known..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Viva Les Froid Amis!

"...27 years in Austin, Texas. The film shows the counterculture of the 70's, punk rock of the 80's, and..."

Oct. 29, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

United States Art Authority Shouldn't Get Special treatment

"...What they fail to mention is that tapping into counterculture is part of their business plan, designed to make..."

Aug. 3, 2008 Postmarks

Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir

'Austin, 1972,' an excerpt from Joe Nick Patoski's new tome, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life

"...safe by hippies rather than the antithesis of the counterculture, which is how most mainstream country was regarded by..."

April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...literary brats in NYC eventually morphed into a national counterculture movement of spokesmen who threatened the suburban respectability of..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Spring Training

Seasonal snapshots of the council candidates

"...implement strict transparency at City Hall, and preserve Austin's counterculture character. "Artists, musicians, tattoo artists, bikers and 'outsiders' are..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Confessions From the King of Fuzz

Cult soundtrack composer Davie Allan comes to the Alamo Ritz

"...wasn't what these films were about. They reflected the counterculture, and to do so accurately, they needed an edge...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

'Chronicle' Ignored Great Artists Honored by the Grammys

"...particularly interesting in that one of the most incredible counterculture geniuses of our time was completely ignored by The..."

Feb. 12, 2008 Postmarks

Reefer Madness

On the alcohol-marijuana equalization movement's frontlines with Mason Tvert

"...That [marijuana use] is only about hippies or rebellious counterculture? That's what we're trying to change. It is a..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Column by Jordan Smith

A Poet Warrior's Reward

Amorindio: Tributo y Celebración for raúlrsalinas

"...politicized way, but as a product of the emerging counterculture of his time that resisted the drive to conformity."..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

POV at 20

"...– Vietnam, campus unrest, political assassinations, and a brewing counterculture – the Newark Uprising occurred after a black cab..."

June 29, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Risk for Beauty

Sally Jacques sends dancers flying off a pair of federal buildings to give us a moment of transcendence

"...incongruous a setting for the Austin choreographer, who's as counterculture as they come and has been at least since..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Deprogramming Dave

Drummer Lisa Cameron talks with ex-bandmate Kathy McCarty about her transition into self

"...transition, when she was Dave Cameron, a pleasant, long-haired, counterculture dude...."

June 8, 2007 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir

Before the outgrowth of women's confessional literature clogged the bookstore shelves and the blogosphere

"...Jewish baby-boomer childhood on Long Island to her Sixties counterculture rebellion in the East Village, unwanted pregnancy, failed first..."

May 4, 2007 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dueling Banjos

Is old-time music Austin's next big thing?

"...purchased at the local mall, what could be more counterculture today than a banjo? These OTM punks are drawn..."

March 30, 2007 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

So, Basically, Breakfast Tacos and Free Beer

Enjoying good food and drink for $10 a day during SXSW

"...real deal: quality good-sized sandwiches made fresh by friendly counterculture folks. Sandwiches start at $2.09, and even the most..."

March 9, 2007 Food Feature by Kathy McCarty

Anthology Recordings Dusts Off the Early Stuff

Anthology Recordings for the digital age

"...Father Yod (formerly known as Jim Baker), a Sixties counterculture free spirit, health-food entrepreneur, and Jesus-look-alike who preached vegetarianism..."

Feb. 20, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

AFS Texas Documentary Tour

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

"...times before in every other documentary that chronicles the counterculture in New York's Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Thankfully,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Jefferson Airplane

"...provided a key ingredient to the soundtrack of Sixties counterculture...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Kingdom of Heaven

Psychedelic pioneer Powell St. John, on the Right Track Now

"...by the artist of how he saw the new counterculture: "Spontaneity and juxtaposition are both happening everywhere simultaneously." This,..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

DVD Watch: Potential-Gift Edition

'SNL,' 'Robin Hood,' 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,' and more

"...the hands of a ragtag bunch of (mostly) stoned, counterculture sketch comics and writers. With its tacit endorsement of..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

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