That Nasty Ol’ Johnny Rotten

Prince of the punks returns with PiL

"...and a career-spanning box set, The Public Image Is Rotten...."

Oct. 25, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Another Rotten Day

John Lydon on the Radio, Punk Rock, and Reunions

"...'Ere we go!" smirks the thick cockney accent. "Johnny's version of 'istory: It never sounded so good!" After..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Johnny Manziel Blah Blah Blah

Just read this

"...Less than two hours after Johnny Manziel won the Heisman, Austin American-Statesman staffer Suzanne Halliburton..."

Jan. 3, 2013 Sports Post by Emily Bevan

Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

Johnny Rotten's second autobiography picks up from the Pistols' demise and pistons into the present

"...John Lydon, the once and forever Johnny Rotten, England's prototype punk rocker who invented post-punk in..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...and drummer Paul Cook mugged for the cameras. Frontman Johnny Rotten, resplendent in a green tartan suit commissioned from..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...That and the fact they were ready to kick Johnny Rotten's ass all the way back to London...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin Punk Chronicles: "I Don't Think the Sex Pistols Inspired Anything Other Than a Buncha More Punk Bands!"

The San Antonio shoot-out ricochets locally in Chapter 4 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...– Johnny Rotten, 1977 Stop Your Cheap Comment, 'Cause We Know..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Filth and the Fury

"...only, his genius at image-mongering and guerrilla media-manipulation kept Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, and Sid..."

May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Lipstick Traces: Rock On!

With Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals have adeptly created a theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus' legendary book that is loud, defiant, intelligent, funny, absurd, literate, physical, and fun, a rock concert for your head.

"...to the socially heretical rant of the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten, taking in Dada and other intellectual movements --..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...Directed by: David Koepp. Starring: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany and Olivia..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wonderland

Dull take on real-life murder mystery has one titillating factor: the involvement of former porn star John Holmes.

"...the waning days of Los Angeles porn king John "Johnny Wadd" Holmes is barely as interesting as one of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...ill of the dead, but facts are facts and Johnny Rotten's aim was dead fucking accurate when he informed..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

The Hard Line

The Hormones

"...with obvious pop constructions, but differ in Stegall's sneering, Johnny Rotten-by-way-of-South-Texas approach to singing and his uncanny knack for..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...understandably mistook the cast for rock stars, not for Johnny Rotten (who, poor dear, has been flailing around in..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...chords at all." Surrounding the jaundiced prose: images of Johnny Rotten flipping off the camera, Dead Boys vocalist Stiv..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...Jason Liebrecht as Johnny Rotten photograph by Kimberley Hewitt Ice Factory '99, New..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

White Riot

Britain's anti-fascist punks are still role models

"...Hoarding, including anti-racism and -fascism interviews with luminaries like Johnny Rotten. (Compare and contrast with his latterday support of..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman's short story gets an inessential musical makeover.

"...Derek Jarman was shooting his subversive masterpiece Jubilee as Johnny Rotten sneer-howled atop a rented-for-the-occasion party barge, and Malcolm..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sid and Nancy

Although it was described as "pure fantasy" by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten, Sid and Nancy gives the impression that it's not that far off the mark.

"...a star also did him in eventually. Schofield, as Johnny Rotten, gains the only sympathy in the entire film..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Guy Ritchie's turbocharged debut.

"...genre and gives them a decidedly U.K. twist -- Johnny Rotten circa 1977 couldn't have directed a more joyously..."

March 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

"...another for so long, he's forgotten how to be Johnny Rotten. Johnny Rotten hung off a microphone stand, twitched..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

Postmarks

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...Rotten Radio..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...with raunchy power chords seeded punk as surely as Johnny Ramone's Mosrite downstroke. Diamond Dogs..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

This Ain't Brain Surgery

Carvin' Country with Roy Heinrich

"...circuitous path to his roots; one that was more Johnny Rotten and Johnny Thunders than Johnny Gimble or Johnny..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Jan. 14, 1978, Winterland, San Francisco, Calif.

"...point, someone threw a proper British brolly onstage, and Johnny opened it and posed. He also meticulously picked up..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...JOHNNY DOWD: Texas-born Dowd has lived in upstate New York..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Lipstick Traces: It's Only Rock & Roll ...

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...actor Jason Liebrecht recreates the audition that seminal punker Johnny Lydon gave for the Sex Pistols, he delivers this..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Recommended

"...excuse for a short set and a big ego. Johnny Goudie opens. -- Andy Langer..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...and this would be the next big thing. Then Johnny Rotten spit in the face of an NME reporter..."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Neil Young

"...'59 Lincoln Continental drives these latest headlines. Rust job Johnny Rotten becomes Road killer "Johnny Magic," flooring his now-green..."

April 10, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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