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April 27, 2006
Tom Verlaine Returns With "Songs"
After more than a decade, the man behind Television brings two wildly different releases
Recordings and Reviews
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These bands achieved their initial notoriety while playing in the same place (an esophagus of a bar called CBGB, in lower Manhattan) and have been lumped together with other habitués of this joint as purveyors of "punk rock." In their self-consciousness and liberal open-mindedness, these bands ...
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Biography
Television appeared at the same time and place as punk rock - in
the mid-'70s at CBGB. But while the band's harsh attack and obvious
affection for the Velvet Underground linked it to the rest of punk,
Television's trademark chiming guitars and the tendency of lead
guitarist (and main songwriter) Tom Verlaine and rhythm guitarist
Richard Lloyd to spur each other on to long jams evoked such
psychede...
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