Even though it’s been fourteen years since his last release, Television frontman Tom Verlaine feels little has changed. Well, except for his famous pipes — just a little. “I have to tune the guitar ...

Tom Verlaine — the guitar virtuoso, cofounder and “frontman” of the pioneering New York group Television, who died last year — might be the most low-key guitar hero in rock history. If he had only ...

Tom Verlaine was known mainly for his work as frontman and guitarist for the rock band Television, but his elite guitar skills appear on many other acclaimed tracks. Throughout his nearly 40-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Verlaine, co-founder of Television, which helped put New York club CBGB on the map in the 1970s and continues to influence ...

THE MOST lyrical and contemplative of 1970s New York punk bands, Television performed individual songs that were longer than an entire Ramones set. Yet the influential quartet's style could also be ...

We learned of the passing of Tom Verlaine today, January 28, 2023. Here's a conversation we had in 2006 with insight into the music that inspired him and the music he was working on back then. Henryk ...

The creation of the band Television is an immense fairytale. When Tom Miller and Richard Meyers met at the Sanford School in Delaware, they both ditched the place in favor of becoming poets in the Big ...

Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic ...

Punk rock pioneer Tom Verlaine died last week at 73 years old. He is best known as the frontman for the band Television, a fixture in the early New York punk scene, along with bands like Blondie, The ...

With fellow Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine virtually invented the texture-over-technique guitar style, making it okay for punk kids to play something besides bar chords. Verlaine’s ...