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Pete Townshend

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    November 8, 2011

    Record Store Day's Black Friday Special Releases: Rolling Stones, Beastie Boys And More

    ​Record Store Day is giving fans a few limited releases to tide them over until the annual April event. The event, which saw it's 30th anniversary this year, is dedicated to independent record retailers and supported by artists and fans alike. A handful of new records will be released on Nov. 25, ... More >>

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    May 19, 2011

    Five Songs for Schwarzenegger Fans to Console Themselves With

    20 years ago this summer, Pee Wee Herman got busted for indecent exposure in Florida and almost immediately and brilliantly bounced back with a surprise cameo appearance opening the MTV Music Awards a couple of weeks later with the only possible response:Based on everything that's turned up in the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Local Cassette Review: 'Last Exit in Berkeley' by Roman Candles

    Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer--vinyl single, full-length album, CD, cassette--we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2011

    The Who's Tommy

    Segerstrom Center for the Arts

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    July 8, 2010

    Deaf, Dumb And Blind Theater

    ​Anyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing a musical at the Chance Theater knows that the Anaheim-based troupe kicks butt in terms of staging sophisticated, grown-up musicals. Recent offerings of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine art-infused Sunday in the Park with George, the tribal rock-mu ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2010

    Dave Wakeling Hasn't Missed a Beat

    The man in the 'Mirror In the Bathroom' still marches to his own . . . rhythm

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Five Songs About Technology Gone Horribly Awry

    Flickr user NMFinFan​Between the "sexting" phenomenon and underage kids letting the world know via tweet what public place they had sex at last night, we're not sure if we're getting old and grumpy or the rest of you are just getting dumber and dumber. We're going to opt for the latter. And we're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    RIP Les Paul

    ​Les Paul, the man behind the signature guitar of the same died, passed away today at the age of 94. I had already been playing guitar for a few years after I realized that not only was Les Paul a real guy, but he was still alive. Somehow I think Jimmy Page, Slash, Eric Clapton, Wes Montgomery, Ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    If You Don't Support the Great Park Iconics, the Terrorists Win!

    Clockwork's Pete Townshendesque ears heard Irvine City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Christina Shea ask the following at Thursday's Great Park Corporation board of directors meeting at City Hall: “If you could put up on the screen the terrorist area.” Now, it is no state secret that Irvin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    The Sex Pistols at The Joint, Las Vegas, June 7, 2008

    [The Sex Pistols are playing only one US date on their current tour. Ben Marcus went to Las Vegas to file this review of their opening date for Heard Mentality.] Jonesy’s Jukebox on Indie 103.1FM is a guilty addiction we’ll have to live without for most the next three months—all summer long w ... More >>

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    November 16, 2006

    Who Cares?

    Heres hoping the Who dont die before you get old

  • Culture

    September 14, 2006

    Trendzilla

    Yes, He Did Pose Himself Like That

  • Columns

    December 15, 2005
  • Music

    August 11, 2005

    Doing It to Death

    Tom Petty and Jackson Browne: Burned out or rusted?

  • Music

    January 20, 2005

    Live Previews

    Tom Petty and Jackson Browne: Burned out or rusted?

  • Features

    January 6, 2005

    Imagining Orange County

    Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home

  • Music

    July 22, 2004

    Dignified and Old

    Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home

  • Music

    April 22, 2004

    When He Was a Young Dude

    A David Bowie list

  • Columns

    April 22, 2004

    Letters

    A David Bowie list

  • Features

    January 1, 2004

    2003 Soundtrack

    The Year in Music

  • Features

    November 20, 2003

    How to Blow a Fuse

    The Intelligista get out into the light

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Surviving the Dead

    Its not just a band, its an adventure

  • Music

    April 3, 2003

    Piss Off, England!

    OC Music Awards founder Martin Brown thinks were cooler, anyway

  • Columns

    January 23, 2003

    Hoochie Who?

    Hoochie coo!

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    R.I.P. Ox

    Hoochie coo!

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    Now We're Deef

    Hoochie coo!

  • Music

    April 26, 2001

    Spastic Colon

    Buddy the Insult Comic Critic

  • Music

    February 8, 2001

    Not Ray

    The tortured life of the littlest Kink

  • Columns

    August 31, 2000

    Sweatin' to the Oligarchy

    A baton to the ribs, winos and great weather!

  • Music

    August 31, 2000

    Fooled Again!

    A baton to the ribs, winos and great weather!

  • Columns

    July 27, 2000

    30 Years of Rocking in Place

    How not to become a star

  • Features

    July 27, 2000

    The Rock Star Track

    For Giant Sucking Sound, gigs are for kicks

  • Music

    July 20, 2000

    More Miles Than Money

    Alejandro Escovedo, true believer

  • Culture

    June 15, 2000

    Turn out the Lights

    This is the end, my friend

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Notes From the Revolucion

    The futura is now

  • Culture

    August 20, 1998

    Hope I Die Before They Get Old

    Drugs, sex and rock & roll get the Boomers treatment

  • Culture

    August 13, 1998

    Waiting for Rent-to Go

    The yin and yang of the musical of the '90s

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