Subject:

Pete Townshend

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    So Sad About Them: Roger Daltrey's Coming to Perform Tommy. Without Pete Townshend.

    ​I received a press release yesterday about which I have enormously mixed emotions. Because on the one hand, The Who is my Favorite Rock and Roll Band of All Time, precariously perched just one rung above The Clash. I've experienced The Who in myriad iterations -- at Reunion in the summer of '80, ... More >>

  • Music

    January 7, 2010

    The Best Area Album Releases of the '00s

    ​I received a press release yesterday about which I have enormously mixed emotions. Because on the one hand, The Who is my Favorite Rock and Roll Band of All Time, precariously perched just one rung above The Clash. I've experienced The Who in myriad iterations -- at Reunion in the summer of '80, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Last Night: Alejandro Escovedo and The Strange Boys at Sons of Hermann Hall

    Alejandro Escovedo, The Strange BoysSons of Hermann HallJune 4, 2009Better than: Putting up with the crowds at the House of Blues for the Animal Collective show. (A review of that show should be up shortly)The Strange Boys and Alejandro EscovedoIt wasn't exactly an energetic start to the evening at ... More >>

  • Music

    May 21, 2009

    A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?

    Alejandro Escovedo, The Strange BoysSons of Hermann HallJune 4, 2009Better than: Putting up with the crowds at the House of Blues for the Animal Collective show. (A review of that show should be up shortly)The Strange Boys and Alejandro EscovedoIt wasn't exactly an energetic start to the evening at ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 4, 2008

    Who Knew

    At DTC's Tommy, Kevin Moriarty presents a package that shakes up the old and reaches out to the new

  • Film

    October 25, 2007

    Steve Carrell's Strke Two: Dan in Real Life

    Cobbled together from better movies, Carell's latest is another miss

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2007

    South by So What? We Kid. We Kid. Here, Then, The Locals Making the Trip.

    Cobbled together from better movies, Carell's latest is another miss

  • Music

    August 31, 2006

    Happy Accidents

    Richard Buckner makes room in his pickup for indie-rock friends but not songwriters

  • Music

    October 21, 2004

    Divide and Convolute

    Blueberry Boat has indie rockers confused: Are the Fiery Furnaces geniuses, hacks—or both?

  • Music

    June 3, 2004

    A New Texas Jam

    Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

  • Music

    February 19, 2004

    Fretting

    "We have mortgages, high cholesterol, and I swear I have arthritis in my fingers. Our sixth CD is due out this summer."

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2003

    Creep Thrills

    The attraction of Thrillvania is horrifying

  • Music

    January 2, 2003

    Scavenger Hunt

    The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

  • Music

    August 15, 2002

    Digging Down

    When Bobby Bare Jr. turned his music down, a great album turned up

  • Film

    December 13, 2001

    Eyes Half Open

    Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    Mick Jagger / Paul McCartney

    Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin) / Driving Rain (Capitol)

  • Music

    October 4, 2001

    The Who?

    Little Grizzly finds itself, and its new album, somewhere along the way

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Gave the People What They Had

    Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2000

    Don't Touch My Jimi!

    Belonging only to history

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Letters

    The prophet; Seeing colors; English only; The yellow ribbon; A fine whine

  • Film

    March 16, 2000

    Naked eye

    Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    While he's away

    Chris Savage looks to the future by playing in the past

  • Music

    June 3, 1999

    Cardboard tombstones

    In the wake of the Ellington 100, lesser zombie boxed sets walk among us

  • Music

    March 25, 1999

    Tom Waits for no one

    Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Look back in confusion

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • Music

    February 5, 1998

    Out There

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • Music

    June 19, 1997

    Roadshows

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • Music

    June 19, 1997

    'Kill him again, he's not dead yet'

    Memories of Ronnie Lane, 1946-1997

  • Music

    November 28, 1996

    And a search for the truth

    On the West Coast, Jeff Liles shoots and scores

  • Music

    November 14, 1996

    Messing up in public

    Ray Davies gets the kinks-- but not the Kinks-- out of his career

  • Music

    August 1, 1996

    Hope you die before we get old

    Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

  • Music

    December 7, 1995

    Who's next

    Green Day's Billie Joe hopes he gets old before he dies

  • Music

    October 19, 1995

    Smash or trash?

    Pumpkins double the pleasure and pain on Mellon Collie

  • Music

    May 4, 1995

    Roll over, Chuck Berry

    In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

  • Music

    December 1, 1994

    Reviews

    In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

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