Los mejores podcasts de Pete Townshend (2024)

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Episode 567: Modcast #567: And Now For Something Completely Different 1:13:35

5d ago1:13:35

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Believe it or not there is more to life than punk rock. Than garage rock. Than power pop even. It's time we expand your musical horizons, extend your artistic consciousness beyond it's three chord boundaries. This week's show is gonna blow you away, and it's gonna get heavy on the acid. But not too heavy. As always find a complete track list, a bon…

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Does Beijing Really Want Trump? 16:25

9d ago16:25

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Hey folks! I took some time off to drive the kids to college and then flew to California to celebrate my brother John’s birthday. The upshot is there’s no interview this week, so in place of that, here’s my essay from this week. Hope you enjoy it. If all goes as planned, I’m back next week with regular interview for Sinica! You can find the text of…

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Steve Miller Band, The Joker, and the "pompatous" of love 14:36

9d ago14:36

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It’s the song that put the word “pompatous” into our collective consciousness, a made-up word that was actually a mishearing of ANOTHER made up word. But it sounds great in “The Joker,” proving once again that in rock and roll, if it sounds good no one will bat an eyelash to question it. In fact, “The Joker” was the Steve Miller Band’s first number…

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Episode 566: Modcast #566: Boys & Girls 1:03:51

19d ago1:03:51

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Here comes the latest mod mod world modcast, #566 reviewing a whole fistull of mod friendly indie and punk bands as well as highlighting lots new recent releases. Fun for boys and girls alike. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at http…

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The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing 58:00

22d ago58:00

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I was looking for a good episode to pull from the archive to run this week as I'll be traveling and I asked my good friend Deb Seligsohn for a recommendation. She went immediately to this one, and by God if it's not an oldie-but-goodie. This is from December 2015 and features Jeremy Goldkorn — I miss him dearly! — and Terry Townshend, an absolute i…

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Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education 13:26

23d ago13:26

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Here's a little bonus ep for you ahead of tomorrow's show, which will be a re-run of a really fun one from about 10 years ago! I'm driving the rest of this week to the Midwest to drop my kids off at their respective universities, and I've been thinking a lot about the education systems in China and the U.S. So here's my essay for this week. See Pri…

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China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu 1:35:08

29d ago1:35:08

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This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo rejoins the show for a deep, deep dive into China's response to American export controls on advanced semiconductors and related technologies. How much hurt has the policy put on Chinese firms — and how far along is China in finding its way toward technological autonomy? Kevin Xu, author of the fantastic "Interconnec…

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The secret sauce in ZZ Top's biggest hit album 16:50

1M ago16:50

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It took original thinking to make one of the best-selling albums of an entire decade, and that’s just what ZZ Top did, although they had some help with coming up with the sound. Completely bypassing the notion that nothing new could be done with rock ‘n roll, the trio released Eliminator in 1983, an album that blended their brand of Texas boogie wo…

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Episode 565: Modcast #565: Dog Days Of Summer 55:39

1M ago55:39

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Too hot. Too hot. This modcast is too hot. Like our sweltering summer. The dog days of summer are upon us so chill out with some cool new music hand picked by yours truly. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at http://www.mistersuave.co…

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Eric Olander on China in the Global South 1:03:57

1M ago1:03:57

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This week on Sinica, I'm joined by Eric Olander, host of the outstanding China in Africa Podcast and the indispensable China-Global South Podcast, and creator of the China-Global South Project. Eric's detailed and very current knowledge of China's relations across the developing world is on display in this whirlwind tour that takes us from the trou…

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In Memoriam_Edna O'Brien: Love, Loss and Literature 49:31

1M ago49:31

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In honor of Edna O'Brien, who died this week at 93, we invite you to listen to this re-broadcast of our episode. Edna O'Brien's first novel, "The Country Girls," was banned in Ireland, and burned in her own home parish. The year was 1960, and young Irish women of that era were NOT supposed to reflect on their lot in life, or harbor sexual desires. …

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A Letter from Beijing 34:05

1M ago34:05

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This week, my narration of a longish essay about my recently-concluded four-week trip to Dalian and, more importantly, Beijing — my first time back in the city I called home for so long since the COVID pandemic. If you prefer to read rather than listen, you can find the essay — free for everyone this week — on the Substack. I hope you enjoy this! S…

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Pete Townshend: Who I Am 58:38

2M ago58:38

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One of the greatest and most admired rock n’ rollers of all time talks about his long and fascinating life in music. Pete Townshend, guitarist and songwriter for The Who, now 79 years old, describes the band’s formation in high school and the tension in his relationship with frontman Roger Daltrey. He recounts how he became the original smasher of …

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Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing 1:02:08

2M ago1:02:08

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This week on Sinica, I'm in Beijing, where I spoke with my dear friend Anthony Tao, an English-language poet and a builder of community in the city where I lived for over 20 years. Anthony recently published a volume of his poetry called We Met in Beijing, and it captures the relationship that so many have with the city wherever they might come fro…

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How “Closer To The Heart” by Rush started with a friendship 12:38

2M ago12:38

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It’s been said “Closer To The Heart” by Rush is Canada’s “Stairway To Heaven,” in ways that go beyond the technical, and it struck a chord worldwide to audiences in a way that Rush’s songs hadn’t before. There’s a folk vibe to this song, a message about finding personal balance and how doing that puts the world at large in a better kind of order. I…

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Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more 56:37

2M ago56:37

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I'm trying something different: totally unscripted and very, very lightly edited recordings grabbed on the go where I happen to be. For the inaugural episode, I've got Wang Zichen, the author of the amazing Pekingnology newsletter on Substack, as well as the man behind the Center for China and Globalization's newsletter "The East is Read." Hear Zic…

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Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations 1:20:19

2M ago1:20:19

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This week on Sinica, I chat with University of Melbourne transnational historian Pete Millwood about his outstanding book Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade U.S.-China Relations. The road to normalization is told too often with a focus only on the Nixon-Kissinger opening and official diplomatic efforts cul…

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Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable 1:05:48

2M ago1:05:48

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This week on Sinica, in a show recorded on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, historian Adam Tooze joins to chat about what the U.S. wants from China, China's vaulting green energy ambitions, and much more. Don't miss this episode: Tooze gets pretty darn spicy! 3:13 How Adam launched Chartbook in Chines…

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Episode 564: Modcast #564: Keepin' The Summer Alive 1:37:44

2M ago1:37:44

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We've got a really big show tonight. Ken from The Shingles and Michael from sparkle*jets u.k are in charge while Mr. Suave is in recovery, and they are all juiced up for summer and ready to bring you some really cool tunes. Fire up the grill, break out the rum, and get ready for a hot summer night. As always find a complete track list, a bonus thir…

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2 1:15:14

2M ago1:15:14

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This week on Sinica, Part 2 of the interview with anthropologist Stevan Harrell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, about his magnum opus, An Ecological History of China. Be sure to listen to Part 1 first, as many important framing concepts are discussed in that episode! 1:44 “– The Four Horsemen of Ecopocalypse” and ecological dis…

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Bon Jovi's story that started in "Livin' On A Prayer" 15:13

2M ago15:13

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It was a song that Jon Bon Jovi had to admit that he was wrong about. It took serious convincing for him to agree to put what became Bon Jovi’s signature song on their third album, a make or break album for the band. And the song does what only a very big, monster hit song can do: get in your head and stay there, probably forever. It also tells a s…

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Episode 563: Modcast #563: Twistin' Summer Punk Party 59:41

2M ago59:41

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This is Modcast #563, Mr. Suave's Twistin' Summer Punk Party, and it is packed I tell you, absolutely packed with the best songs of the moment. Lots of new music coming your way, plus some diamond geezers, As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast hom…

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Willie Mays: For the Love of the Game_In Memoriam 26:20

3M ago26:20

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We invite you to honor and celebrate the great Willie Mays, who died this week at the age of 93, by taking a listen to the stories he told about his life on this episode. It was one of the first episodes of "What It Takes," and it remains one of our all-time favorites: Baseball fans may argue to this day about which was the best of Willie Mays’ man…

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1 1:14:07

3M ago1:14:07

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This week on Sinica, Part 1 of a two-part podcast with Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve's groundbreaking book An Ecological History of Modern China represents the culmination of a professional lifetime of work in disparate fields. It synthesizes ideas from geography, earth science, biology, a…

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Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" 1:26:15

3M ago1:26:15

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This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of stud…

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Episode 562: Modcast #562: Get Hip II 1:01:29

3M ago1:01:29

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I'm going under the knife again for another hip replacement. If I can't dance for a while so be it, but I can listen and so can you. Once I'm on the road to recovery I know my ears will be hungry for new tunes, and so will yours. So, I've got sweet and savory for you this week. Nothing too salty, and of course nothing bitter. From sixties influence…

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Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry 1:19:21

3M ago1:19:21

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This week on Sinica, a conversation that I moderated on May 30th called “Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan,” put on by the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China. The main organizer was my friend Vita Golod, who is the chair of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists. The panelists are: Dmytro Burtsev, a Junior Fell…

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The emotional ride of The Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses” 13:20

3M ago13:20

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It may be the most delicate song in the entire Rolling Stones catalog, with Mick Jagger delivering every single line of “Wild Horses” with an impassioned weight. And there’s good reason for that. By the time this song was written and recorded for 1971’s Sticky Fingers album, the Stones had more than enough personal drama to sing about. Get into it …

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