The Who & Joan Jett Quake the Frank Erwin Center

"...Pete Townshend: “Great to be in Austin. This is really..."

April 28, 2015 Photo Gallery

Smiling Faces: Ian McLagan

"...Don Harvey, Mac, Pete Townshend at the Austin Music Awards, 2007..."

Dec. 11, 2014 Photo Gallery

The Who's Tommy

Zach's revival of the rock opera takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, and while vivid, it lacks consistency

"...golden, fringed jacket, is a picture-perfect Vegas edition of Peter Gallagher's character in 1980's The Idolmaker. Since this film..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

10 Minutes with Nick Waterhouse

Crate digging in the Internet era and other retro pursuits

"...Allison when I was 13 or 14. I read Pete Townshend talking about Mose Allison, so I thought I..."

July 30, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Live Shot: Foxboro Hot Tubs

New Year’s Eve with Green Day

"...rifftastic party band that likely owes Ray Davies and Pete Townshend some serious royalties...."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows

Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang

"...In 2012 – several years after Pete Townshend made a surprise appearance for another Austin Face,..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Playback – SXSW: Zero Hour

SXSW started early this year, but now – as usual – everything hits at once

"...Springsteen, Bob Geldof, Smokey Robinson, Quincy Jones, Lou Reed, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Robert Plant, and Little Richard –..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...so bad." Thus hatches the genre's Andrew Lloyd Webber, Pete Townshend, whose mouthpiece Roger Daltrey emotes over an instrumental..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Released! The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998

"...1986, starring U2, Sting, Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Radiohead,..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Clash City Rockers

Unexpurgated Clash box set review

"...famously smashing a Fender Precision a la the Who’s Pete Townshend on the cover of London Calling...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Twisting by the Pool

Music on the printed page as opposed to a festival stage

"...belt. In January, I rifled through 500 pages of Pete Townshend's autobiography on the Texas Riviera and, just prior..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback

You thought SXSW was the spring festival end-all/be-all? You thought wrong.

"...killed," Hubbard exclaims. "It was just powerful, like seeing Pete Townshend doing a solo thing...."

April 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Blood in the Water

Headliners avalanche SXSW a week out from the music fest

"...AMA history and seeing names like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pete Townshend, Doug Sahm, Townes Van Zandt, and Bruce Springsteen,..."

March 8, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In 1965, on his 20th birthday, The Who's Pete Townshend wrote "My Generation" while riding a train from..."

March 8, 2013 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles

"...instrument, and Eddie Vedder's beloved punk godfather, the Who's Pete Townshend, plucked one, too. Tiny Tim made it the..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

The Who

Dinosaur DVDs with a smattering of punk, porn, and R&B

"...two of the LP's best tracks – principal songwriter Pete Townshend's rambling alcoholic confession (about "the night I gave..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Who I Am

The Who's heart and soul for 500 pages.

"...Who I Am: A Memoirby Pete Townshend HarperCollins, 544 pp., $32.50..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Wrapped Up in Books

One last batch of music books for 2012

"...One hundred and four pages into Pete Townshend's autobiography, Keith Moon's already a liability but John..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton

Music from another dimension Friday at the Frank Erwin Center

"...young life, obviously there’s the Beatles and the Stones. Pete Townshend is one of my favorite songwriters period, from..."

Nov. 15, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Quadrophenia

"...1979 film is a powerful reminder of group leader Pete Townshend's restless thirst for innovation. Preceding a massive (Texas-free)..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Up Too Early

Google Streetview fashion critique from Inner Campus Drive

"...bag is hanging a little low. Stevie Ray low. Pete Townsend low. I’m all for geezers bringing game, but..."

July 13, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Dear Diary

Did I know Bruce Springsteen was going to play the Austin Music Awards? Excellent question.

"...to get the Boss to the AMAs the way Pete Townshend guested with Ian McLagan in 2007? Jump forward..."

March 23, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan

"...Smith, Kris Kristofferson, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger), though only Pete Townshend's stripped "Corrina, Corrina" and..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Who

When the album becomes Immersion

"...Keith Moon's drumming still verges on anarchy. Yet auteur Pete Townshend and the band make up for it with..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Amazing Journey

Six from Britain's bad-boy directors

"...extremis, the words and music of the Who and Pete Townshend. Chief among them is an unhinged Oliver Reed..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Don't bother cleaning up after Chaos in Tejas; OBN III's strike again this weekend

"...with the shake appeal of Iggy Pop and a Pete Townshend complex. He records full-band demos by playing every..."

June 10, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...theirs in the film. At the Playhouse, we saw Pete Townshend transform the Who's Tommy into a Broadway musical...."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts/Rick Springfield/George Jones/Devo

"...guitar – adding a sacrificial bouquet of roses to Pete Townshend's trademark move – dwelt Elvis Costello's acknowledgement that..."

April 1, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

DVDnds

"...by Mick Fleetwood's acceptance speech – with Mac founder Peter Green standing behind him – then the band, led..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm

"...get, including the famous clash between Abbie Hoffman and Pete Townshend, and Max Yasgur's full address heard for the..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

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