(TV) All Songs Considered

[Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>]

On the NPR podcast "All Songs Considered", Verlaine is the...Guest DJ. "Spinning his favorites..."
   
  M.

Glenn Cooper <glenncooper@austarnet.com.au> wrote:
  http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/68724.htm

ROCKER CHANGES CHANNEL

IT'S hard to get a straight answer from Tom Verlaine, co-founder of the punk
pioneers Television.
Ask him what he's been up to since he put out his last album in 1992, and he
says he's been mending fence posts, claiming he's crammed 53 into his
apartment.
Ask him how he feels when people refer to him as a guitar legend.
"I feel like I have to get some almond ice cream," he says.
He claims to not hear Television influences in bands of today - nearly 30
years after the famous album "Marquee Moon" was released - even though it's
clear post-punk bands from the Strokes to Franz Ferdinand rock firmly in the
Television's notesteps, particularly his and Richard Lloyd's guitars.
The East Village rocker, performing tonight and tomorrow at the Bowery
Ballroom, just released two new albums: one instrumental disc, "Around," a
deliciously moody album whose songs could be easily be the soundtrack to
very different films, and "Songs and Other Things," a more traditional
noir-rock album.
Fence posts aside, in the last 14 years Verlaine's continued to be an active
musician - by going on tour with Patti Smith, writing indie-film soundtracks
squeezing in a few Television reunion shows (he prefers them in faraway
places like Greece or Portugal), or just simply playing guitar in his
apartment. He hints that we haven't seen the last of Television.
"When I was writing these songs, I thought some would be good for Television
" he says.
marymhuhn@nypost.com
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